Buenos Aires celebrates this Saturday the 70th birthday of Charly García; the musician Fito Páez and his band will give a free ‘show’ at the Colón theater.
With a marathon of concerts, exhibitions and special broadcasts, Buenos Aires celebrates this Saturday Charly García’s 70th birthday, a living tribute to the distinguished musician and author of dozens of songs turned into classics of the rock in Spanish.
Under the name “Charly BA by Fito”, Fito Páez from Rosario will offer a free show accompanied by his band, at the Colón Theater in Buenos Aires, a lyrical hall famous for its acoustics.
“No one for sure knows if he will be at the tributes, although everything is prepared in case it appears”, He told the AFP a fountain from the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), another space of the Ministry of Culture chosen for the celebration.
Secluded during the pandemic, Charly —born on October 23, 1951 as Carlos Alberto García— gave his last show December 11, 2019 at the Luna Park stadium in Buenos Aires, when with a cracked voice and difficulty in mobilizing, he exhibited the virtuosity of always at the piano and shelled several of his classics, such as Going from bed to living room, Close to the revolution and Disarm and bleed.
In the majestic CCK, more than 40 musicians will participate in a marathon of shows throughout Saturday afternoon, divided into thematic blocks –jazz and rock-, which will also be broadcast live on networks and platforms.
In the same space, “TRIP. An experience about Charly García ”, a proposal of music and images starring the photographer and visual artist Nora Lezano, the tango singer Lidia Borda and the pianist Daniel Godfrid, while on other floors there will be talks about different facets of the artist who in 2009 he received the Grammy for Musical Excellence.
In addition, Lezano, along with his colleague Andy Cherniavasky and musician Hilda Lizarazu, exhibit their photographs of Charly at the San Martín theater in Buenos Aires, where another concert under the musical direction of Lito Vitale opened the festivities on Thursday.
Artists who were part of the bands of the author of Demolishing hotels performed numerous classics at the San Martín, such as Videotape eyes, Rare new hairstyles and Don’t bomb Buenos Aires.
“With his songs, Charly gives us art, beauty, identity, genius, originality and courage. What makes him unique is his immeasurable personality, his humor, his ability to be reborn from pain, his tremendous frontality, nobody less mask (false) than Charly”, It is described by the singer-songwriter León Gieco in a portal production Filonews.
Figure of Argentine popular culture, the artist who sang to his own death before turning 20, who defied the censorship of the military dictatorship, survived the excesses and drugs, bet now to build The happy machine, song included in his album Random, of 2017.
“Music is my oxygen,” he told the specialized magazine in 2018 Rolling Stone, which qualifies it as the “greatest exponent of rock and roll Argentine “and” cultural icon of the country “in a production dedicated to the former leader of emblematic bands, such as Sui Generis, La Maquina de Make Pájaros and Seru Girán.
Piano and classical music performer since the age of five, his life turned upside down when he discovered the Beatles and they “blew his head off”, in his own words.
Soul rocker, he questioned all the rules, always rejected the politically correct and defied even the law of gravity when in 2000 he dove into a pool from the ninth floor of a hotel, undamaged.
They were the times of his stage Say no more, when he destroyed instruments on stages and hotel rooms, although without ever losing his lucidity to portray reality and its musical quality.
That path of darkness would lead him to a stay in a psychiatric clinic, from where he was rescued in 2008 by another popular musician but in the antipodes of the rock genre, Ramón Toothpick Ortega, who encouraged him to re-record.
Thus, in 2011, to celebrate his 60 years he gave a show of resurrection in a stadium in Buenos Aires filled with fanatics who resisted in the pouring rain, which Charly baptized as The underwater concert.
“The night has passed, it must dawn, let’s get out of the caves, there is much to do, for me, for you, for humanity, let’s look at each other, we just have to talk, let’s take the air that we have left to breathe,” Garcia sang in Soul music, a 1980 issue that did not lose its validity. (E)
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