Luca Prodan

Luca Prodan was born on the 17^th May 1953; he died on the 22^nd December 1987. He was an Italian-Argentine musician.

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Luca Prodan was born in Rome after his family came back from China. He went to Gordonstoun School, a private boarding school that is in Scotland and moved to Manchester and London.

Luca Prodan moved to London in the 1970s and he worked at EMI. While he was in London, Luca Prodan formed his first music band called The New Clear Heads and the shared the beauty of the modern day punk bands like the following groups. XTC, The Fall, Joy Division and Wire.

In the year 1981, after the heroin crisis in London in the later part of the 1970s, Luca Prodan relocated to a farm of an Anglo-Argentine friend called Timmy McKern, the farm is located in the central hill of Cordoba region of the country Argentina.

After staying in the farm, he went on to settle in Hurlingham around Buenos Aires, and that was the place he found and led the groups called Sumo and Hurlingham Reggae Band.

Luca Prodan died of either a heart attack or cirrhosis of the liver in Buenos Aires prior to the Christmas of the year 1987.

After his death, Luca Prodan became a prominent man in the rock culture of the country, Argentina.

Discography

With Sumo

Ø  Corpiños en la madrugada (1983)

Ø  Divididospor la felicidad (1985)

Ø  Llegando los monos (1986)

Ø  After chabón (1987)

Ø  Fiebre (1989)

Solo

Ø  Time Fate Love, recorded in 1980 (1996)

Ø  PerdedoresHermosos (Beautiful Losers), recorded in 1981 (1997)