Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla ( born August 19, 1951 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine musician, record producer, songwriter and film composer. He is considered the founder of the Latin American Rock en Español and is known in the international music industry as a successful discoverer and promoter of artists from Latin America since the 1980s. In 2005 was elected to the United States Santaolalla by Time Magazine one of the 25 most influential Latin Americans, while in 2006 and 2007 won the Oscar for best film composer.

  • 2.1 Solo albums
  • 2.2 soundtracks (selection)
  • 2.3 Video game music (selection)
  • 3.1 Oscar
  • 3.2 Golden Globe Award
  • 3.3 British Academy Film Award
  • 3.4 Further

Biography

Band member and producer role

Gustavo Santaolalla was born in 1951 in El Palomar, a suburb of Buenos Aires. He grew up in his childhood with American music from Nat King Cole to the Beach Boys, before he himself decided to pursue a musical career. The rock ' n ' roll and Latin American culture very fond, he was promoted as a band -leader of the group Arco Iris established in 1967 as one of the key figures of the Argentine rock. Santaolalla is a pioneer in the fusion of rock and Latin American folk, the Rock en Español so-called, although jazz and African influences at the time co-determined his style of music. Mid-1970s, Santaolalla founded the group Soluna, before it came out in 1976 in Argentina to overthrow the government and under Jorge Rafael Videla establishing a military dictatorship. 1978 Santaolalla was forced to leave his home and moved to the United States. Here he gathered as a band -leader of the punk group Wet Picnic first experiences on the American music market, before he worked as a music producer. Together with his colleagues Anibal Kerpel he founded the record label Surco Records, a joint venture with Universal Music. As president of the music label Surco the great success came, and Santaolalla is now regarded as the discoverer and promoter of such well-known Latin American artists and groups such as Juanes, Molotov, Café Tacuba, Caifanes, Maldita Vecindad, Davididos, Bersuit, La Vela Puerca, Puya, Arbol, El Otro Yo, Fiebre and Dracma. In 2003 he received three Grammy nominations for the albums by Juanes and Orishas and as a producer of the Kronos Quartet album Nuevo. In 2004 he won the Grammy as a producer for the track " Cuatro Caminos " Café Tacuba.

His solo career started in 1981 with his album Santaolalla " Santaolalla ," in 1995, named after his name initials "GAS" was followed by the successful track " Todo Vale ". His breakthrough celebrated a year later with the instrumentals of his album " Ronroco ", which received great reviews. Gustavo Santaolalla is also co-founder of Bajofondo Tango Club, which has set itself the goal to interpret the Tango Argentino from the perspective of modern musical styles like trip-hop, House, Chill Out and drum and bass. The very first album was honored with a 2003 Latin Grammy.

Career as a film composer

His work as a film composer began during the cooperation with the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu. For the music to the film Amores Perros episode, which was highly praised by the critics, Santaolalla 2001 was nominated for the Premio Ariel, the most important Mexican Film Award. Gustavo Santaolalla González Iñárritu's 2002 set to music contribution to the anthology film 11'09 "01 -. September 11, in which several directors from different countries grappled with the attack on the towers of the World Trade Center in New York September 11, 2001 Once again, under Gonzalez Inarritu he wrote the music for the episode film 21 Grams with Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro, where he joined hard -sounding electronic vibrato guitar and bandoneon sounds with electronic music and drums. for the soundtrack, which includes the Kronos Quartet contributed pieces, Argentina was honored at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2004 as discovery of the Year. 2004 created Santaolalla again a multi-faceted score for Walter Salles ' road movie the Motorcycle Diaries. Here the composer left next to folk -oriented and electronic sounds again on the guitar as the primary musical instrument and won the prize of the Argentine film Critics and the British Academy film Awards ( BAFTA ).

Success was Santaolalla summoned to work on Ang Lee's drama Brokeback Mountain, on which it is based at the Country soundtrack and the two ballads "A Love That Will Never Grow Old " and " No One 's Gonna Love You Like Me ", performed by Emmylou Harris and Mary McBride, contributed. At the Academy Awards in 2006 he was able to prevail in the category of Best Original Score against the competition. Furthermore Santaolalla won the Satellite Award for " A Love That Will Never Grow Old " together with the English poet Bernie Taupin. In the same category, the Argentines could say at the presentation of the Golden Globe Awards 2006 and received a nomination for Best Original Score. In the same year he created the score for Niki Caro's drama North Country with Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand. 2006 was followed by the fourth collaboration with Alejandro González Iñárritu, for which he composed the musical theme of his film Babel. The modern parable to the biblical Tower, where he worked among others with the Japanese Ryuichi Sakamoto, brought Santaolalla again in 2007 Oscar and BAFTA Award and a nomination for the Golden Globe. Even with Babel renounced Santaolalla unlike Oscar -nominated Alexandre Desplat colleagues like ( The Queen) and Philip Glass ( Notes on a Scandal ) on pompous orchestral sounds and established by the musical style of his previous compositions Amores Perros and 21 to Gram.

2008 Santaolalla wrote with Miguel Kohan the screenplay for the award-winning documentary cafe de los maestros, are interviewed in the Argentine musicians during the golden era of tango. In 2010, he wrote the soundtrack for the German production Nanga Parbat by Joseph Vilsmaier. In the same year a new collaboration with Alejandro González Iñárritu in the drama Biutiful, 2012 was followed by another collaboration with Walter Salles on the road movie On the Road, based on the novel by Jack Kerouac.

Gustavo Santaolalla, who is also on the soundtrack for Miguel Arteta's Star Maps (1997), Michael Mann's Insider (1999) and the animated film Shrek 2 (2004) participated, lives in Los Angeles and is married to the photographer Alejandra Palacios. The marriage produced three children.

Discography

Solo albums

Film scores (selection)

Video game music (selection)

Awards

Oscar

  • 2006: Best Film Score for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2007: Best Film Score for Babel

Golden Globe Award

  • 2006: Best Original Song for " A Love That Will Never Grow Old " ( Brokeback Mountain)
  • 2006: nominated for Best Film Score for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2007: nominated for Best Film Score for Babel

British Academy Film Award

  • 2005: Best Film Score for The Motorcycle Diaries
  • 2006: nominated for Best Film Score for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2007: Best Film Score for Babel

More

Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2005: Best Film Score for The Motorcycle Diaries
  • 2009: nominated for Best Screenplay (documentary) for cafe de los maestros

Ariel Awards

  • 2001: nominated in the category Best Original Score: Amores Perros (together with Daniel Hidalgo )
  • 2011: nominated in the category Best Original Score: Biutiful

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2007: nominated for Best Film Score for Babel

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2006: Best Film Score for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2006: nominated for Best Film Score for Babel

Clarin Entertainment Awards

  • 2004: Best Film Score for The Motorcycle Diaries

Goya

  • 2011: nominated for Best Film Score for Biutiful

Hollywood Film Festival

  • 2006: Composer of the Year for Babel

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2005: Best Film Score for Brokeback Mountain

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2006: Best Film Score for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2007: nominated for Best Film Score for Babel

Prêmio Contigo Cinema

  • 2009: Special price for Linha de Passe

Satellite Awards

  • 2005: Best Original Song for " A Love That Will Never Grow Old ", nominated in the category Best Original Score for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2006: Best Film Score for Babel

World Soundtrack Awards

  • 2004: Discovery of the Year for 21 grams
  • 2006: Audience Award for nominated in the categories of Best Original Song for " A Love That Will Never Grow Old " and Best Original Score for Brokeback Mountain
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