During the morning of this Friday, June 5, the Police and the Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires They reported that the Argentine artist Carlos Alberto Solariknown artistically as Indio Solaridied at the age of 77 after fighting against Parkinson’sa progressive neurodegenerative disorder of the nervous system.
As founder and singer of the groups Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, The Air Conditioning Fundamentalists and The Mister and the Extinct Marsupials, Carlos Alberto Solari was one of the musicians most popular of the history of Argentina, since it was always characterized by gathering large crowds in its concerts.
“I carry you in every memory, in every song from yesterday. With immense pain. Have a good trip, my dear friend, see you always. Now you are the light that travels between us and forever. “Today is a very sad day,” Eduardo Federico Beilinson, better known as Skay Beilinsonfounder of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota.
This is because Indio Solari founded The Rounds in 1976 along with his creative partner and guitarist, Skay Beilinson. Subsequently, the group led record sales until its dissolution in December 2001 and still remains one of the popular music groups. most successful and engaging of the history of Argentina.
Who was Indio Solari?
After shining as the singer of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, the performer, composer and Argentine rock icon continued to bring together, with The Air Conditioning Fundamentalists, thousands of people in concerts that became popular festivals outdoors, with followers who came from different cities in the country.
Therefore, due to its style poetic, cryptic and metaphoricalthe lyrics of Indio Solari’s songs are part of the daily life of millions of Argentines, who repeat some of his verses in conversations, political slogans, street graffiti, flags on soccer fields. soccer and even in the decoration of buses in Argentina.
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Given this scenario, after learning that Indio Solari died after a long fight against Parkinson’shis followers called for a “ricotera mass”the largest countercultural ritual of Argentine rock, characterized by the massive and historic pilgrimages of followers of Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricota.
Unfortunately for Indio, due to the first symptoms of Parkinson’s, his last concert took place at the 2017in the city of Olavarriabefore almost 300 thousand people. However, in the following years he participated in the performances of The Fundamentalists of Air Conditioning. virtual or through recordings.
Argentine rock icon
Born in Parana On January 17, 1949, Carlos Alberto Solari had multiple jobs before settling in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, where he began to compose and sing with The Rounds in the midst of the repressive climate of the military dictatorship, which strongly punished all cultural expressions.
However, his artistic proposal and the political and social content of his songs continued to gather large crowds in mega concerts outdoors, to which followers from all over the country came, in a kind of ritual of Argentine rock. For this reason, this popular movement is going through a moment of sadness due to the death of the Indian.
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