Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta

Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta was born on the 23 rd January 1950; he died on the 8 th February 2012. He was an argentine mu...

Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta was born on the 23^rd January 1950; he died on the 8^th February 2012. He was an argentine musician. He is one of the most influential rock music players of the Southern America. Together with Charly Garcia, he is seen to be the father of Argentine Rock music. He was born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighborhood of BajoBelgrano. In his early years as a kid, he was already listening to all types of music in the country. In the year 1967, amongst the repressive political climate of the country, he formed a band group known as Almendra with his schoolmates.

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Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Ongania, Buenos Aires was passing through a cultural success based on the new art expression. In his lyrics, there are multiple influences from poets, writers and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Carlos Castaneda and Antonin Artaud.

On the 23^rd December 2011, he published on the Twitter account of his son Dante that he was suffering from lung cancer. He died on the 8^th February 2012 in his native country, Argentina at the age of 62.

Music

In the year 1969, Spinetta’s band called Almendra recorded his first music album. They began recording and playing exclusively and later it became successful eventually.

After a long stay in Europe, went back to his country, Argentina and after that he formed a new band called PescaoRabioso. With a greater sound and expressing via their songs and lyrics, the tension of the streets in an highly violent country, his group made their album debut in the year 1972. It was both the continuation of the creative works of Spinetta and a quick and gradual change in the pattern of his music and lyrics. Later, the band recorded a second album. Although a third album from the group was dropped in the year 1973 and named Artaud, it carried the name of the band when they were dissolved. So it was mostly solo album by Spinetta. In the year 1974, Spinetta formed a new bang group called Invisible. With the new bandSpinettarecord three music albums called Invisible, Durazno Sangrando and El Jardín De Los Presentes. With the group called the invisible, the new tunes were more harmonic.

After recording and editing a failed album in the United States in the year 1979, with the lyrics in the English language and destined to the Unites States Market, Spinetta went back to his country to record two albums with a short lived Almendra Revival and engaged on a new project called Spinetta Jade.

Spinetta Jade proved to be successful and an innovative band. He was joined by some of the greatest musicians of the country of those and al time to assist him in the building of the new sound he was building since the invisible. The Product; a blend of jazz and rock music that was not see in the country and that dodged the boom of the symphonic rock and got to both the country and to the entire world in the early part of the 1980s. the four albums Alma de Diamante (1980), Los NiñosqueEscriben en el Cielo (1981), BajoBelgrano (1983) and Madre en Años Luz (1984) are representing the a unique pattern and also the footprint of the Spinetta’s evolution. Spinetta joined effort with Charly Garcia and gave what was perhaps the most crucial show in the history of the rock music of the country. After dissolving the Spinetta Jade in the year 1984, Spinetta worked on an album with Charly, but suddenly they dropped their effort.

In the year 1982, Spinetta restarted his solo project and from then never left them, starting with the Kamikaze in the year 1982, which gathered together a good number of previous unreleased tracks. After a long break, hugely because of his conflicts with recording companies, he finally opened a new period in his music with his new band called Spinetta y los SociosdelDesierto. Within the next three year, Spinetta created and dropped four albums and created another legend in the rock music of the country. Two studio albums, the doubleSociosdelDesierto of the year 1997 and Los Ojos of the year 1999 brought a new sound. Towards the end of the year 1999, the music band quietly dissolved. Spinetta started his solo career, including Silver Sorgo (2001), Obras en Vivo (2002), a live album, Para Los Árboles (2003), Camalotus (2004), which is a single of three songs that are yet to be dropped and a remix called Pan (2005) and UnMañana (2008).

In the year 2005, Spinetta got the Platinum Konex Award for the best rock soloist of the 1995 to 2005 decade. A good number of book and TV documentaries have been dedicated to him.

Family

Spinetta is with four children; Dante, Catarina, Valentino and Vera. Dante Spinetta has a successful band that began in the 1990s, IllyaKuryaki and the Valderramas.