Gustavo Cerati
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Gustavo Cerati in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark |
| Born |
11 August 1959 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 4 September 2014 (aged 55) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Genres | Rock, alternative rock, electronic rock, pop rock, experimental rock, neo-psychedelia, art rock, new wave, post-punk, power pop, deep house, indie rock, shoegazing |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, composer, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, sampler, keyboards, piano, Rhodes piano |
| Years active | 1982–2010 |
| Labels | Sony Music, CBS, Sony BMG |
| Associated acts | Soda Stereo, Zeta Bosio, Charly Alberti, Shakira, Carlos Alomar, Tweety González, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Roger Waters, Andy Summers, Charly García |
| Website | cerati |
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PRS Custom G&L Legacy HB Gibson ES-335 Jackson Soloist |
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Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark (11 August 1959 – 4 September 2014) was an Argentine singer-songwriter, composer and producer, considered one of the most important and influential figures of Ibero-American rock. Cerati along with his band Soda Stereo, were one of the most popular and influential Spanish-language rock and pop groups of the 1980s and ’90s.
Cerati was the recipient of many awards throughout his career including various Grammys, MTV awards, as well as the MTV (Latin America) Legend Award with Soda Stereo, the first of its kind.
Cerati died on 4 September 2014 at the age of 55, after suffering a stroke four years earlier in Caracas, Venezuela which resulted in a coma.
Cerati was born on 11 August 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He grew up in a middle class household; his paternal family was of Lombard descent and his maternal family was of Irish origin. His father was an accountant and regularly traveled abroad. From his early memories he had an idyllic love of the sun and nature. Cerati’s first passion was art and in elementary school he drew comics and created his own comic book characters.
Cerati’s parents acquired a guitar for him when he was nine years old, at that point Cerati started to take music seriously, becoming a fanatic of rock and roll:
Los que me pegaron en ese momento fueron Hendrix con "Purple Haze" y The Who con "Pictures of Lily". Durante semanas los escuché sin parar. Ahí se me despertó el deseo de tocar, de armar un grupo (English: The ones who struck me at the time were Hendrix with "Purple Haze" and The Who with "Pictures of Lily". For weeks, I listened non-stop. That is when the desire to play, to start a band, was awakened).
By the age of 13 he formed a trio and started playing at house parties and in the local Catholic school, where he eventually joined the choir. Cerati was a good student until his third year of junior high school when he met a fellow student who, like himself, was into rock and roll,
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