Charly GarcÃa
Charly García (full name Carlos Alberto García Moreno, born October 23, 1951 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine musician who has influenced the development of rock music in Argentina crucial. He played with numerous Argentine, but also international musicians and has been since 1972 stylistically constantly evolving.
Biography
Charly García was the eldest son of a wealthy family from Buenos Aires. At the end of the first reign of Juan Domingo Perón came to a dramatic deterioration of the economic situation and his father began to teach as a teacher of physics and mathematics. His mother worked as a producer of folk music programs for the Argentine radio.
At the age of three years, his parents discovered the musical talent of Charly García and promoted it by enrolling him in the school of music Thibaud Piazzini. At twelve, Charly García was the extent that he could teach. At thirteen, he heard the previously knew only classical music and folklore, for the first time a recording of the Beatles. He later said of this experience, it was so " as if he had heard classical music from Mars ".
In high school he met Nito Mestre know. 1969 merged the band "To walk spanish " Charlie Garcia with " The Century indignation" of Nito Mestre and soon formed the very successful formation Sui Generis. Sui Generis played folk rock with symphonic elements. In 1972, the first plate. On September 9, 1975, the group was in front of 20,000 spectators their farewell concert at the Luna Park Stadium. This was the largest ever rock concert ever held in Argentina.
In 1976, the musicians of Sui Generis came together again to record an album with the musicians León Gieco, Raúl and María Rosa Yorio porchetto. This LP was titled " Porsuigieco " ( a mix of Raúl porchetto, SUI Generis and León GIECO ).
In the following months, some important things changed in Charlie García's life. He separated from his partner María Rosa Yorio, with whom he had a son. With his new partner, the Brazilian Marisa Parendeiras, the horizon of his perception Advanced. With new musicians, he dabbles in symphonic rock. The band " La máquina de hacer pájaros " recorded two albums, but they were never really popular in Argentina. Since the political message of the lyrics Charlie García brought into conflict with the now ruling dictatorship of the military under Jorge Rafael Videla, he decided in late 1977 to São Paulo (Brazil ) to emigrate.
In São Paulo, he came into contact with Brazilian musicians such as Milton Nascimento. In the following years was formed by Charly García a new group, which also included musicians of Sui Generis. Under the name Serú Girán they took in São Paulo on their first album. Serú Girán also occurred in Argentina and Charly García was in 1979 briefly detained by the military.
After 1983, and the overthrow of the military Charly García returns as a soloist to Argentina. In the following years he is radical and uncompromising. He enters into the phase of democratic awakening on numerous concerts. End of the 80s, his music sounds like punk rock. The 90s are initially characterized by excessive drug use. He plays in a rotating cast, often in the clubs of Buenos Aires. Created eight albums during this time. He plays with different Argentine musicians. There is a new edition of Serú Girán with a concert at River Plate Stadium. In 1997 he worked with Mercedes Sosa and takes the album Alta Fidelidad. In February 1999, he plays at the Festival Buenos Aires Vivo III in front of 250,000 people and a few months later at a private concert at the Casa Rosada in front of the former Argentine president Carlos Saúl Menem.
In 2004 he began a tour through Argentina. Under the motto La Venganza ( The Revenge ) he plays, among others, in Ushuaia ( Tierra del Fuego ) at -2 ° C.
Discography
Sui Generis
Porsuigieco
La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros
Serú Girán
Solo
- Argentine musicians
- Rock singer
- Rock musician
- Argentine
- Born in 1951
- Man