CIUNAC

Course: Basic 4
Singer: Gustavo Cerati
Teacher: Melissa Campos
Student:
Ayarquispe Gmez Giancarlo Jack

2016

GUSTAVO CERATI
Gustavo Adrin Cerati was born in 1959, in Buenos
Aires (Argentina). He is considered one of the most
prolific artists of the Argentinian musical scene, with
a career beginning way back in 1983.
His early guitar lessons quickly paid off when he met
his fellow band-members Zeta Bosio and Charly
Alberti, to give shape to what was soon to become
the main Spanish-speaking band in the Americas:
Soda Stereo, a trio with Cerati being the leading
voice and also playing guitars.
It was 1985 when Soda Stereo jumped into the
spotlight in Argentina, to later start their successful
career abroad.
Their songs, a mix of pop-rock with elegant lyrics
and a funky vibe, reached the top of the charts all
over Latin America, achieving a continental success
that has not been paired ever since. With a topnotch sense of aesthetics, they performed all over
the
continent,
from
intimate
sessions
in
underground pubs to carefully-staged massive
concerts in open-air stadiums.
Soda Stereo was signed to CBS in 1983. They
published their first album, "Soda Stereo", in 1984,
soon followed by the hugely successful "Nada
Personal" (1985). With "Signos" (1986), they started
touring the main Latin American cities, paving the
way for a continental Sodamania, as the devotion
that this band generated in hundreds of thousands
of fans all over the region has been named. This
phenomenon opened the market for Argentinian

music, arguably the most influential from of "local"

rock in Latin American from those days onwards.
Later came "Ruido Blanco" (1987), and "Doble Vida"
(1988), the album that confirmed the role of Soda
Stereo as an international band, with all-time hits
such as "Lo que sangra" and "En la ciudad de la
furia". "Cancin Animal" (1990), in turn, opened the
doors of the Spanish market playing in cities like
Sevilla, Madrid, Barcelona, y Valencia. The group
would close the year with a historical free concert in
downtown Buenos Aires, for a crowd of more than
250,000 people.
"Dynamo" was published in 1992, and presented
during the sixth Latin American tour of the band.
Three years afterwards, the group was to publish
what would become their last studio album, to then
go on tour to the US in 1996.
In mid 1997, the band officially announced their
break-up. They toured Latin American together for
the last time, performing in Mexico, Venezuela and
Chile; the journey ended with an official goodbye
concert at the main football stadium in Buenos
Aires, with an audience of 80,000 people.