Luis Cardenas is a Latin-American drummer who has been active since the early 1980s, both as a solo act and as a member of the rock band Renegade.

Renegade was formed in California in the early 1980s by Cardenas and the band's manager/producer Kim Richards[1] and were unusual in being ethnic Hispanics playing rock music.

Widely viewed as teen idols, the band headlined the Saturday nights of the Los Angeles Street Scene Festival in both 1985 and 1986, with audiences of 150,000 in attendance.

[4] Renegade reformed in 2000 and was honored in August 2001 at a David Hasselhoff-hosted event at the Conga Room in Los Angeles for record sales in excess of 30 million units worldwide.

The first single from the album was a cover of the Del Shannon song "Runaway" and became a hit in the US, peaking at number 83 on the Billboard Hot 100.