René Simon & La Iguana is a Salsa band. The musicians, mostly Latin American, all reside in Switzerland. Leader René Simon composes and arranges the band's repertoire -- it's Salsa-based band in the best Cuban and Puertorican tradition, influenced and enriched by Argentinean music (from Tango to Argentinean Rock), and above all by Latin American lyrics and songs. René Simon was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in 1994, "René Simon y La Iguana" recorded their first album "Ritmo Caliente." With two songs from this production he won a prize for the best composer in the category Latin at the Benelux International Song & Culture Festival 1999 in Holland.