Luis Alberto Spinetta
| Luis Alberto Spinetta | |
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Luis Alberto Spinetta, 1976
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | El Flaco, Luigi, Luisito |
| Born |
23 January 1950 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 8 February 2012 (aged 62) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Genres | Jazz rock, Hard rock, Blues rock, AOR, Folk, Soft rock, Jazz fusion, Experimental rock, Psychedelic pop. |
| Instruments | guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, electronic keyboard, vocals |
| Years active | 1967–2011 |
| Associated acts | Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade, Spinetta y los Socios del Desierto, Charly García, Fito Páez, Gustavo Cerati, Pedro Aznar, Pappo, León Gieco, Andrés Calamaro, Dante Spinetta, Litto Nebbia, Moris |
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Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012), commonly known as El Flaco (Skinny) was an Argentine singer, guitarist, composer and poet. One of the most influential rock musicians of South America, together with Charly García he is considered the father of Argentine rock. Born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano, he was the founder of iconic rock bands including Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade, and Spinetta y los Socios del Desierto.
Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions; the new generation, among sons of the middle class, were immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta devoted himself fully to his own music. In his lyrics, there are influences of multiple writers, poets and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Carlos Castaneda and Antonin Artaud, who has his name in the album Artaud.
On 23 December 2011 he published on the Twitter account of his son Dante that he was facing lung cancer. He died on February 8, 2012, in his native Argentina, at the age of 62. His ashes were scattered in the waters of the Río de la Plata, according to his last wish, next to the Memory Park built to remember the desaparecidos of the National Reorganization Process.
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