Fito Páez

Fito Páez ( born March 13, 1963 in Rosario, Rodolfo Páez civil Ávalos ) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, singer and composer who helped to shape the Argentine rock music, and especially the style of the Trova Rosarina crucial.

Life

As a child, the son of an amateur pianist had taught himself to play the piano, initially to be able to read music but without. With 14 years Páez piano lessons began to take. His musical talent was soon recognized it, and he played as a teenager in several folklore groups. Also in school, he got through his work in local rock groups increasing recognition in the scene.

In the early 1980s he came up with Juan Carlos Baglietto, the then famous rock singer Rosario, in contact with him and played a few songs. He hovered in the subsequent period, together with Baglietto between Rosario and Buenos Aires back and forth and could be at the Rock Festival of La Falda ( the only major festival at the time of the military dictatorship ) for the first time earn recognition in the national media landscape. Short term he played with in the band of Charly García, which he left in 1984, however, and a solo project founded.

His debut album, Del 63, for which he received a recording contract with EMI, he published in the same year. It was a great commercial success. In the following years he took in addition to his activity as a rock singer in the events of a group of musicians some who used a style called Trova Rosarina, embracing the elements of tango, folklore, jazz and rock music.

Also in the 1990s, he continued to publish regularly albums and singles, all of which were successful. He also received several awards such as the Clarín Award for best soloist in 1993. Simultaneously he took stylistic experiments in attack, as the album Euforia ( 1996), which was a symphonic live album, and he collaborated with the Spanish songwriter Joaquín Sabina.

Since the mid- 1990s Páez is known throughout Latin America. In 2000 he won two Grammy Latinos for a song from the album Abre (1999 ), a success he was able to repeat several times in the following years.

Discography

• Del 63 (1984)
• Giros (1985 )
• Corazón clandestino (1986 )
• La la la ( Luis Alberto Spinetta con ) ( 1986)
• Ciudad de pobres corazones (1987 )
• Ey! (1988)
• Tercer mundo (1990 )
• El amor después del amor (1992 )
• Circo Beat (1994 )
• Euforia (1996 )
• Enemigos Intimos ( with Joaquín Sabina) (1998)
• Abre (1999)
• Rey Sol (2000)
• Naturaleza sangre (2003)
• Mi vida con ellas I ( live album, 2004)
• Mi vida con ellas II (Live Album, 2004)
• Moda y pueblo (2005)
• El mundo cabe en una canción (2006)
• Rodolfo (2007)