The US rock band Jane’s addiction will play in Cuba at Salón Rosado de la Tropical on Friday as part of the Habanarte Festival.

Jane’s Addiction is an influential Californian rock band, led by vocalist Perry Farrell, which set the basis of alternative rock, a movement with an anti-system lining through which rock recovered its independent face and got it away in the 1990’s from the big business which big music trans-nationals had turned it into. The movement gained for its cause thousands of young people who didn’t know what to do with their lives and found an answer to their void in bands, such as Jane’s.

The rock band was set up in 1986 by Perry Farrell, who came from the previous band Psi Com, and includes drum player Stephen Perkins, bassist Eric Avery and guitarist Dave Navarro. The group recorded its first album in Los Angeles in 1987 and a year later it recorded the classic Nothing’s shocking. The Album in which Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea took part, sold millions of copies, thanks to tunes, such as Jane Says. Jane’s addiction is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its first iconic album Habitual Ritual with a world tour.