biograthy

With his talent and versatility as a composer, Gustavo Cerati led one of the most important rock bands in Spanish in Latin America, in the 80's and 90's chorused with him acclaimed as Signs themes, American Blinds and When the shaking stops. 

 

"I have periods when I feel like doing something creative gymnastics for ideas and I also have times when you need time to regenerate," Gustavo Cerati. 

Tremor for Cerati, who after the dissolution of Soda in 1997 had a successful solo career and producer, spent Thursday. After spending over four years in a coma after a stroke, the musician died. 

 

Born August 11, 1959 in Buenos Aires, Gustavo Cerati felt an inclination for music since he was nine. 

 

As a boy he formed a trio with whom he appeared at private parties and came to lead the church choir. Many of the tunes recorded in Soda Stereo's songs were born during his childhood, once explained in interviews. 

 

While he was studying advertising at the University of El Salvador in Buenos Aires, Cerati Zeta Bosio Héctor met bassist future of Soda Stereo. Both exchanged discs The Police, XTC and Elvis Costello and, along with drummer Charly Alberti formed Soda Stereo in 1982. 

 

The group was created just before Argentina came out of the dark years of the military dictatorship. Based on the new wave and punk, their sound reflected the renewed optimism of the time. 

 

In August 1984 the band recorded their first seven studio albums, Soda Stereo, which was followed by Nothing Personal and signs, which went platinum in Argentina and double platinum in Chile, and Double Life, whose famous subjects What bleeds (the dome ) and telltale heart devoted to the group as one of the strongest speaking. 

 

Soda Stereo made ​​several tours in Latin America and in 1989 conducted the first performance of a rock band in Spanish in the United States, with a show in Los Angeles for which tickets sold out. 

 

After 15 years together, the band announced their split in 1997 citing personal and musical misunderstandings different. To say goodbye, the band performed a Latin American tour that ended before more than 70,000 people in Buenos Aires. 

 

Cerati continued with solo work began while the band was still alive. He also collaborated with a wide range of artists. 

 

For nearly a decade experimenting with different sounds, including electronic music, orchestral music and hip hop, seeking to distance himself from the musical ideas of Soda Stereo. 

 

With his album Here we go 2006 he resumed the rock sound of the time Soda Stereo. 

 

"Over time, no worries sound recover certain scents that are familiar to me and everything lives, everything we have done is part of me, it's part of the same," said the musician at the time. 

 

The album earned him a record seven awards of Argentina Gardel music. 

 

Gustavo Cerati died Thursday after being in a coma for four years. 

Gustavo Cerati died Thursday after being in a coma for four years. (El Universal.) Expand 

Cerati was also successful with the more technical aspects of music. He won the Grammy as producer of the album of Shakira Oral Fixation Vol.1 in 2007 he edited The soundtrack for the film + Good was nominated for best pop instrumental album for Latin Grammy in 2001. 

 

In 2007 Soda Stereo was the dream of his fans to get together for a tour that began at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, where they had been fired from his public 10 years before. 

 

"I said that we were getting back together when we were not too pathetic and still are not," Cerati said when he spoke of that reunion. The singer explained that he wanted his two children to see perform live at Soda Stereo. 

 

More than one million people attended the concerts held in various Latin American cities, after which the three musicians went their separate ways. 

 

Cerati's last work as a soloist, natural forces, was released in 2009. 

 

The disc is a series of stories surrounded by the magic of folk, pop vibration, the power of rock, electronic manipulation, psychedelic color and warmth of acoustic sound, highlighted the artist's website. 

 

It was an instant success. Less than one week of release, topping the charts in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. 

 

In April 2010, during a break in his world tour natural force, Cerati said he still sought to expand its boundaries as an artist. He claimed that his creativity was flowing. 

 

"I have periods when I feel like doing something creative gymnastics for ideas and I also have times when I need time to regenerate," he said. 

 

Less than a month later, on May 16, vanished at the end of a concert in Caracas. He had suffered a stroke. 

 

On June 7 was moved to Buenos Aires, where he remained in a coma until Thursday.