Porchetto emerged from the Acoustic movement of Argentine rock during the early 1970s, releasing his debut record in 1972, following the subgenre's popular rise in the wake of the "Acusticazo" festival.

[1] By the mid 70s he would become a member of one of the first, and ephemeral supergroup of Argentine rock, PorSuiGieco, with León Gieco, Charly García, and Nito Mestre.

In 1980, his sixth album Metegol featured a very innovative type of uptown-suave sounding rock, yet remaining accessible and unpretentious when listened to.

Mirroring the early 80s trend towards the much more light and direct rock music of the New Democracy Sound, Raúl Porchetto came out with his next two album releases.

That along with his eagerness to pursue more experimental and ambitious music led his later releases following Reina Madre to be departures from his earlier sound, and more inaccessible to casual fans (one of his late 80s albums even include actual choruses singing evangelical themes).