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CHARLY GARCÍA 

Introduction

His real name is Carlos Alberto García Moreno, he born in October 23 in 1951, he´s knowed with the pseudonym of Charly García. He is the one of the most recognized and influential performer, composer and productor Argentinian of rock.

He´s considered like a fundamental figure in the world of Argentina contemporary music. He founded two of the most importants bands of the rock Argentinian like a Sui Generis and Seru Giran and a cult band, La Máquina de Hacer Pajaros, García has a lot of recorded disc and his carreer like a soloist converter him in a incon of the Argentinian rock.

Charly has won a lot of national and international prizes; an example is the Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires in 2010 by the legislature of Buenos Aires.

Biography

He´s ther firstborn of a rich family of Buenos Aires, he has two brothers and a sister. His mother´s name is Carmen Moreno and his father’s name is Carlos Jaime García who is the owner of the first factory of fórmica in his country.

When he was 5 years old and he began to study music with the teacher Julieta Sandoval who taught him to play classic music, something about Mozart, Bach o Chopin.

Finishing the 50’s his parents travel to Europa so he was under care of his baby sister, grandmother and his grumpy aunt who hit him by any mischief. This time was disturbing say Charly. He was hold to his small piano toy and forgets of his parent´s absence. He suffered a nervous crisis and this caused vitiligo, for that reason he has two colors in his mustache. This caused his sobriquet, bicolor mustache.

When his parents came back from Europe, his mother began to work in a successful program of radio named Folklorísimo where was the most important stars of the Argentinian folklore of this time and here was where famous artists like Mercedes Sosa and Ariel Ramirez met to Charly.

When he was 12 years old, he received such as teacher of theory and sol-fa and offered him a scholarship for study in Italy, but he rejected it because he didn´t want leave his family again.

Initiation (1964-1969)

One night, Mercedes Sosa was to take a dinner to the García Moreno house. She listened to Charly when he was playing the piano, and she told to Ariel Ramirez: “this guy is like Chopin”. The guy loved the classic music and hated the popular music equally to his parents. He slept a little time, he felt that if slept he was losing the time, he spend time all days playing music of Chopin of Mozart.

After some years, The Beatles changed his life; they changed his vision musical forever. With them arrived too The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Birds, The Who and others bands and finished his career like a classic music, he order an electric guitar. He left his long hair and began the fights with his father who told him that should go out to get job although they didn’t have economic problems.

With his mother was different, she felt that Carlitos was a special guy, “¿how can be that a boy three years old plays anything in the piano? Charly was a special thing, I am wrong to say, but it is true”.

Sui Generis (1970-1974)

In his first years, Charly assisted to the Instituto Social Militar "Dr. Dámaso Centeno" and he ran away of class and went to play the piano in the assembly hall. Here he founded his band To Walk Spanish. After that, during the high school, he met Nito Mestre who had a band named The Century Indignation and he founded a new band named Sui Generis.

When Charly suffered a heart problem, was in the hospital and he thought die that night and he composed Canción Para mi muerte, the first success of the band. When he went out to the hospital and came back to the band, Charly y Nito continued together and under the influence of Elton John, Bob Dylan created music without the knowledge of change the national rock history.

One night during a concert, a girl approached him and gives him his number. After he called her and the girl was Maria Rosa Yorio who studied theater and they had a son, Miguel Angel.

After venture by a lot of record companies they got to record their first disc, Vida. It was an unexpected a true success. But in 1973 when edited their second disc, Confesiones de Invierno, they were consolidate and were more than a simple rock group.

The politic situation of the country was very hard; the Alianza Anticomunista Argentina attacked anything and everything that disgusted. That period wasn´t the right moment for attack institutions, but just this did Charly with Botas locas and Juan represión. They didn´t sing that in Argentina but sang in Uruguay and the politic situation was similar, for that reason were arrested almost on stage.

The album wasn´t sold like Charly waited, so they take the decision of divide the band, but the parting was with a big concert in Luna Park, around 25.000 fans assisted to the event, it was named, Adios Sui Generis.

PorSuiGieco / La Máquina (1974-1977)

In 1974, important figures of the acoustic rock, got meet and go out of tour without a good project, only get fun, sing and share a good moments. Charly García, Raúl Porchetto, Nito Mestre, León Gieco y María Rosa Yorio formed PorSuiGieco y su Banda de Avestruces Domadas. The disc suffered some censures by the government of Isabel Perón and it had to be modified without the “El fantasma de Canterville” song.

Charly began to explore by others musical ways. He had to go to the psychoanalyst, he spent all the time inside of his apartment, playing and composing and he didn´t speak with anyone. After PorSuiGieco his next project was La máquina de hacer pájaros and it was the more complex project in the symphonic rock of Argentina.

The military coup got scared everyone. Charly didn´t want to go out to street because he thought his name could be in the black list. He feared by his life and because in few time he was father. The baby born however the marriage wasn´t fine, García spent more attention to his music and her wife felt alone, in few months they broke up. Spent few time and his ex-wife got a new company; he was the Charly´s best friend, Nito.

In 1977, on the Festival del Amor was the latest presentation of La Máquina de hacer Pajaros in the Luna Park, too. After that, Charly met Marisa Zoca Pederneiras, a Brazilian dancer who was her wife until 80´s.

The consecration: Serú Girán (1978–1982)

After the fights in Sui Generis, Charly traveled to Brasil with David Lebon, he wanted to be near to his girlfriend Zoca and he rented a house by three months.

Although the commercial success of Sui Generis, Charly was indigent. Zoca and Charly had a poor life but he was convinced to form a new band. When he did his way to came back to Buenos Aires, with David Lebon, Pedro Aznar y Oscar Moro created a band named Serú Girán.

Serú Girán won a lot of prizes in different categories, but the beginning was very difficult, in the first concert in Buenos Aires somebody specialized in press classified it like the worse Argentinian band and said that David Lebon’s voice sounds homosexual.

Little by little the band was taking acceptation for the public, but in 1981, Aznar was convened by a guitarist of US for his band. They accorded meet in US because Aznar traveled the next to study in Berklee College of Music; for that reason the ban was separated in 1982, but like in previous situations with a big concert named: No llores por mi Argentina.  In that year Charly began his career like a soloist.

Career like a soloist (from 1982 until the present)

1982-1984 soloist beginnings

In 1982, Argentina was in a politic changes; the national rock was promoted by media communications because during de Malvinas’ war, the English music was forbidden. So, the album “Yendo de la cama al living” had a good reception, with songs like “No bombardeen Buenos Aires”, “Inconsciente Colectivo”, “Yo no quiero volverme tan loco”, “Yendo de la cama al living” between the most successful. For this band, Andrés Calamaro was in the keyboards.

The next year, Charly traveled to New York. When he came back to Buenos Aires, he brought some shorter songs and dance beat according to the fresh air in the country with the economic openness. Song like “Los Dinosaurios”, “Nos siguen pegando abajo” and others important songs.

In this band did part an important Argentinian music, Fito Páez.

During the latest months Charly recorded “Piano bar”, this album contains songs like “Demoliendo hoteles” and “Raros peinados nuevos”

1985-1989: Demolishing hotels

In 1985 he didn´t recorded any song, after he recorded with Pedro Aznar, in New York “Tango”.

In 1987 arrived, “Parte de la Religión” considerate with “Tango” like the most important albums of Charly and them finished confirming like one of the most important Argentinian composer and a recognized international artist.

He acted in a film, a futurist novel, who interpreted a sick. Curiosity, in New York, he won the prize to the best supporting actor. During the movie, he drove, that is something that he has never never done in his real life.

García composed a song named “Zocacola”, by her wife, but a few times they broke up. He had changed, he was older and his music was dark its sound was like Punk rock with violent themes.

1990-1995: The excess days.

In 1990, Charly had a lot of ideas, but his band didn´t has. His partners leave him alone and for his new disc “Filosofía barata y zapatos de goma” called his old friends, the most important were  Andrés Calamaro, Rinaldo Rafanelli,Fabiana Cantilo, Nito Mestre, Pedro Aznar, Fabián von Quintiero until Hilda Lizarazu.

In 1991 he recorded “Radio Pinti”. He wanted to record a disc with Gustavo Cerati with the name “Tango 3”, but the project was never developed.

In 1993, Charly was contracted for the soundtrack of the movie Funes, un gran amor and in 1994 he launched “La hija de la lágrima”.  In this year, Kurt Cobain died. Charly being his fan dye blonde hair.

During 1994, the World Cup Soccer was played in Unites States and Diego Maradona was implicated with problems about drugs with the FIFA, and Diego was sent to house. Argentina lost two important games and was declassified, when the second game was ending, Charly called Diego Maradona’s cellphone and sang “Maradona Blues”, it´s a song that Charly composed for him and Diego cried.

1996-1999: Era Say no More

In 1996 “Say no More” was launched from his own record label named Say no more, too.

He knew Mercedes Sosa since their childhood and they recorded a disc named “Alta Fidelidad” where Mercedes sang her favorite Charly´s songs.

In 1998, he produced “El Aguante”, this production had some covers translated to Spanish of bands that Charly admires.

2000-2006: Maravillización

In 2000, Nito and Charly decided recreate Sui Generis, the situation was different when they´re 25 years old, but in this situation they composed new song for the album “Sinfonías para adolescentes”.

After this interruption like a soloist, in 2002 Charly created other new album Influencia and 2003 he presented, “Rock and roll yo”, this album was dedicated to his ex-guitarist and friend María Gabriel Epumer who died in June of that year.

2007-2008: Internment

In June 14, Charly was taken to a hospital in Mendoza maybe due an overdose of alcohol and drugs. After that, his friend Palito Ortega invited him to his house of vacations and he did deal with doctors and psychiatrists. The process was around one year.

2009 – The return

After his long recovery, Charly came back in Agosto 2009 with a new song named “Deberías saber por qué” the song was converted in a success and Charly began a tour by Perú and Chile.

Personality and controversy

Charly García always was a controversial figure as a national level as international, his mood swings, drug addiction and his critics about himself and public knowledge people and sometimes this hasn´t like to some sectors of the Argentinian society.

He was detained in a psychiatric clinic thrice; he was expelled from the army because he didn´t stay confinement and the discipline imposed. He has had forbidden the entrance to Uruguay by a few time because he hit a paparazzi who tried take a picture. In Colombia Charly had problems when called it “Cocalombia”

In Costa Rica, one Charly´s concert finished in a pitched battles when the concert was suspended by the rain. He had problems in Paraguay when he locked four girls in a in a hotel. Anytime one Charly´s fan was hit in a concert and Charly gave him a guitar with his autograph in the hospital. Charly is like a challenge for the journalists.

Those are the most important situations when Charly has caused controversy, on one occasion Charly with his compatriot Fito Páez generated controversy when said something respect Ricardo Arjona, Fito said that Arjona was a “symptom of annihilation” and Charly referred about Arjona´s fans, he said:  is of “housewives, who watch soap opera, and is a lot of people”

Problems with Andrés Calamaro

The good relationship with Calamaro finished in the middle of the 90’s, when Charly met Mónica (Calamaro´s girlfriend) in Madrid, while Calamaro was in a tour. When Andres and Mónica broke up; started the problems between Charly and Andrés.

And there were all, since crosses almost sympathetic until artistic clashes. The song “Alta Suciedad” of Calamaro, was the answer for “Alta Fidelidad” of Mercedes Sosa and Charly, the song is about the teeth of Charly. («El campeón tiene miedo de pegar, no se quiere romper las manos, porque tiene que cantar el ritmo del protector bucal…»)

Discography

·                     Pubis angelical / Yendo de la cama al living (1982).

·                     Clics modernos (1983).

·                     Piano bar (1984).

·                     Tango (con Pedro Aznar) (1986).

·                     Parte de la religión (1987).

·                     Cómo conseguir chicas (1989).

·                     Filosofía barata y zapatos de goma (1990).

·                     Radio Pinti (con Pedro Aznar y Enrique Pinti) (1991).

·                     Tango 4 (con Pedro Aznar) (1991).

·                     La hija de la lágrima (1994).

·                     Say no more (1996).

·                     Alta fidelidad (con Mercedes Sosa) (1997).

·                     El aguante (1998).

·                     Influencia (2002).

·                     Rock and roll yo (2003).

·                     Kill Gil (2010).

Why I like him?

Charly García and his different bands I like because I perceive his music very pleasant, sometimes his songs are nostalgic and a little depressive that are reflecting the problems during the Argentinian dictatorship or his crazies changes of moods, but others can denote a bit of euphoria and wake up emotions.

I like Charly and his bands, because in their songs have a lot of critical around the different facts that they lived during the politic situations in Argentina although that was forbidden they decided say their ideas.

And during the Malvinas war, the English rock wasn´t allowed for that reason Charly got his respective importance in the National rock like a paradigmatic musician and I was impressed.

With this type of facts they became an icon of the Argentinian rock, that is some awesome and somehow I think Charly, with Sui Generis and Serú Girán became the referring like a The Beatles (my other favorite band) in their moment.

Also, I like the Charly’s personality and his actions in the concerts. He´s a little crazy.