After graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Peña rose to fame in the Latin market with the release of his debut album "El Mundo al Revés" in 2000 and the subsequent tour which saw him perform festivals in Argentina, Venezuela, Panama and the United States.

[2] From 2015 through 2017, he has been nominated for five NATAS Suncoast Chapter Emmy Awards, winning two for the WIPR-TV Short Subject documentaries "Por Qué Conmemoramos" (Why We Commemorate) and "Soy De Una Raza Pura" (I Am From A Pure Race) respectively.

After his parents' divorce at the age of 14 Peña got his first guitar and spent the rest of his youth between school and weekends with his bandmates, writing songs and rehearsing where he began to hone his craft as a songwriter.

(The World Upside Down) Produced by Pablo Manavello, El Mundo Al Revés was recorded in Miami and Nashville and released by Universal Music Latino on 10 October 2000.

The Dallas Morning News "A debut record that sets precedents "En Español" – track that opens the CD – and evokes the days past of Argentinian rock and English pop."

People En Español "Considering that most Latin pop and rock albums nowadays suffer from overwhelming cheesiness, "El Mundo Al Revés" is a promise of better things to come".

The Miami Herald A year later, Peña started opening for International acts like Neil Young and Oasis in Buenos Aires and the Caracas Pop Festival[3] in Venezuela as well as Laura Pausini;[4] and Chile's alternative rock group, La Ley in Panama.

Ignacio then toured the United States as the opening act for Ricardo Arjona where he performed in San Jose and Los Angeles, California and Miami, Florida.

Conceived during the aftermath of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, "Anormal" (Abnormal) is a conceptual proposal that entwines 12 songs that narrate a process of existential conflicts.

The video for it was directed by Ignacio himself, and was done in the "Phono/Gráphico" style, in which a collage of footage from an array of news and pop culture sources and personally edited by the artist, is constantly running synchronized with the music that's being played live.

Images of explosions, aliens, military marches and political figures are part of the video that also includes a scene re-enactment of the sci-fi classic film "A Clockwork Orange", directed by Stanley Kubrick who Peña claims as a musical influence.

Produced by Ignacio Peña, Iker Gastaminza and guitarist Tony Rijos, "Anormal" also includes a guest appearance by Gustavo Laureano, lead singer of La Secta AllStar, in "Velocidad de escape" and its English version, "Any year, any room, any highway".

Buena Vida In 2005 Peña's song "Only End Up Lonely" won the iTunes Jukebox Jury contest at the South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin Texas.

The project was put on indefinite hiatus and Peña decided to concentrate on the educational concert experience "El Gran Debate del Planeta Tierra".

(The Great Planet Earth Debate) In 2006, Peña was invited to perform at Owen Goodnight Middle School in San Marcos, Texas to close a lecture on climate change.

(Why We Commemorate) right| In 2014 Peña was commissioned by the Puerto Rico Corporation for Public Broadcasting (WIPR-TV, Channel 6) to create a series of nine documentary shorts called "Por Qué Conmemoramos".

[13] The introduction and closing for these features the song "Tírale" (Take a shot) from Puerto Rican metal band "Puya" and Peña's own "Remind Me When We Get There" was used as incidental music.

"Soy De Una Raza Pura",[14] takes its name from a popular song by Lucecita Benítez, written by Tony Croatto and David Ortíz Angleró, and it is featured both on the introduction and ending of these episodes.