SEVEN-MINUTE SODA STEREO WORK OUT. Tonight I threw on my Converse sneakers, loaded up my iTunes, and jumped around the house with my air guitar in homage to one of the most beloved pioneers of the rock en español movement. Argentine musician Gustavo Cerati, frontman of the 80s-90s band Soda Stereo, passed away at 55 after four years in a coma. I remember sitting at the beach in El Salvador in the late 1990s drinking Pilseners with my Chilean roommate Tamara Inostroza and all her hipster Central American med school colleagues listening to bands like Soda Stereo and Cafe Tacvba and realizing for the first time just how important rock music was to Latin America. It protested conformity; it celebrated the end of wars and other civil conflicts, giving young people in highly stressed environments a chance to let off steam; it transcended social classes; and it allowed people to get out of the folkloric box created for them by the northern media. It was badass stuff, and it united a diverse region decades before any of us had access to the Internet. RIP Cerati. washingtonpost/entertainment/music/gustavo-cerati-latin-american-rocker-dies/2014/09/04/74a29e7a-345b-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:53:43 +0000
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