Robe

Roberto Iniesta Ojea, known mononymously as Robe, was born on May 16, 1962, in Plasencia, Spain. He is a prominent Spanish songwriter, singer, and guitarist, best known as the frontman of the rock band Extremoduro and as a solo artist. Robe left school with a third-class Baccalaureate and began working with his father. At the age of twenty, he started writing songs and formed his first band, Dosis Letal. In 1987, he founded Extremoduro, the band that would bring him widespread fame. Lacking funds to record a studio album, they sold tickets in advance, promising an album in return. After selling 250 tickets, they managed to gather enough money to record their first demo tape in January 1989. This demo gained significant attention, leading to a live performance on the Catalan television program Plastic. Extremoduro's big break came in 1996 with the release of the album Agila, which catapulted them to fame in Spain. That same year, Robe faced personal tragedy with the death of his father. The addition of guitarist and producer Iñaki "Uoho" Antón, from the band Platero y Tú, marked a turning point for Extremoduro, leading to a joint tour with Platero y Tú. Robe also collaborated with Fito Cabrales and Iñaki Antón to form the supergroup Extrechinato y Tú, which released the album Poesía Básica in 2001, featuring music inspired by the poetry of Manolo Chinato. In 2006, Robe and Iñaki Antón founded the record label Muxik. Robe's first novel, El viaje íntimo de la locura, was released on September 28, 2009, and sold 10,000 copies in just over a week. Robe made his solo debut in 2015 with the album Lo Que Aletea en Nuestras Cabezas, followed by Destrozares. Canciones Para el Final de los Tiempos (2016) and the live LP Bienvenidos al Temporal (2018). Following the announcement of Extremoduro's disbandment in 2019, he fully devoted himself to his solo career, putting out the studio albums Mayéutica (2021) and Se Nos Lleva el Aire (2023). Early in 2024, the song “El poder del arte” (from the Se Nos Lleva el Aire era) gained wider cultural visibility when the Museo Nacional del Prado built a campaign piece around it, underscoring how his later writing had started to circulate beyond rock press into broader arts coverage. The tour largely played to full houses through the summer and early autumn, but in November 2024 his team first canceled the planned Madrid finale dates and then suspended the remaining concerts indefinitely after he was diagnosed with a pulmonary thromboembolism and ordered to rest, effectively ending his last major touring chapter mid-stream. In 2025, he did not return to regular performance activity, while recognitions in his hometown of Plasencia continued to accumulate—most visibly with the opening of the Avenida de Roberto Iniesta in August 2025—and he was also named among the recipients of the 2024 Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts, although reporting noted he ultimately would not live to receive the honor. Robe Iniesta died on December 10, 2025, at age 63, prompting a wave of tributes that framed Se Nos Lleva el Aire and the unfinished 2024 tour as the closing arc of his solo career.