Luca Prodan
| Luca Prodan | |
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Prodan photographed for the cover of supplement Sí of Clarín, few days before his death, December 1987.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Luca George Prodan |
| Also known as | Luca |
| Born |
17 May 1953 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 22 December 1987 (aged 34) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Genres | Post-punk, Punk rock, New Wave, Reggae |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Bass guitar |
| Years active | 1970s – 1987 |
| Associated acts | Sumo, Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, Andrés Calamaro, Hurlingham Reggae Band, Los Violadores. |
Luca Prodan (17 May 1953 – 22 December 1987) was an Italian–Scotish musician and singer. He was the leader and singer of Sumo, one of the most influential rock bands of Argentina, and is widely considered as one of the most important artists of the last quarter of the twentieth century in his country.
He was the older brother of film actor and composer Andrea Prodan.
Luca Prodan was born in Rome on 17 May 1953, and he had not only Italian origins but Scottish as well. He was born after the return of the Prodan family from China: his father had set up a prosperous business in ancient Chinese pottery that became untenable after the Japanese invasion of China during World War II.
In his youth, his parents sent him to the prestigious Gordonstoun College in Scotland; The same school where Prince Charles of England attended; Where he escaped a year before graduating. After that, he moved to London.
He moved to London in the 1970s and worked at EMI. While in London, he formed his first band, The New Clear Heads, which shared aesthetics with contemporary punk bands like XTC, The Fall, Joy Division (from which he named the first Sumo album after: Divididos por la Felicidad, Spanish for Divided By Joy) and Wire.
In 1981, after a heroin crisis in the late 1970s London, he moved to the farm of an old Anglo-Argentine friend, Timmy McKern, in the central hills of Córdoba Province Argentina seeking peace to try to kick his heroin addiction.
After some time at the farm in the Traslasierra valley, he settled in Hurlingham (a suburb of Buenos Aires), where he founded and led Sumo and the Hurlingham Reggae Band.
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