known for having been vocalist, guitarist and main composer of the rock band Soda Stereo (1982-1997), one of the most important and influential of Latin music. His work, both solo and with the Buenos Aires group, positions him as one of the most outstanding musicians in Ibero-America and as an undisputed legend of Argentine rock.
Cerati began his career in 1983, with Héctor "Zeta" Bosio and Charly Alberti, with Soda Stereo, a line-up that was a precursor of rock in Spanish in Spanish America, with masterpieces like his first three albums "Soda Stereo (1984)," Nada personal "(1985) and" Signs "(1986) After editing the seventh unreleased album" Sueño Stereo "(1995), the singer and leader devotes himself fully to his solo career that began in the early 90's.
When he was about 50 years old, on May 15, 2010, he was hospitalized for a decompensation after presenting his show in Caracas, Venezuela, and three days later he was disseminated that he suffered an ischemic stroke. A couple of years before, he had already had a thrombosis, since according to his reports from the age of 18 he used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day. Although the doctors agreed that if he had come out of the coma he would not be the same again; his mother, Lilian Clark, and his fans kept hoping for a miracle that would make him move on his own, talk and, why not, even sing as before.
Gustavo Cerati died on September 4, 2014 as a result of a respiratory arrest, after remaining more than four years in a coma in a clinic in Buenos Aires, at the age of 55 years.
Here I leave one of the many songs that have accompanied me these years. even hurt with his great loss.
