LATIN ROCK MUSIC: Charly García, the genius

I don’t listen so much music in English. All my life, I preferred the songs singed in my language: the Spanish. I like some artist and songs in English, like the ABBA music, Frank Sinatra’s songs or artists like that. But my favorite kind of music is the latin pop/rock of the 80’s and 90’s, specially the music made in Chile or Argentina.

One of my favorites Chilean groups is Los Prisioneros. From my point of view, Jorge Gonzalez is a GENIUS. He has a lot of great music, with Los Prisioneros and alone.

But today I would like to talk about one of my favorite Argentinian singer: CHARLY GARCÍA, the alive legend.

Charly is also a genius, like Gonzalez. I discovered Charly García as a child. My dad had a CD with the best songs of Sui Generis, one of Garcia's first bands. Also, I played Sui Generis songs on the guitar all the time, and I really loved watching and listening to him. When he left me at school, I put that CD in the car radio. Every Monday we sing a great song called "MONDAY AGAIN". The song says: "Monday again about the city / people you see / live alone."

But one of the greatest songs of Sui Generis is called “Confesiones de invierno”. For me, this is one of the love songs who said at the perfection the process of a heart broken. Is really beauty. I always think in the sentence who say: “I only die on Sundays/ and on Mondays I feel good” (Solamente muero los domingos/ y los lunes ya me siento bien). 

But Charly have great songs after Sui Generis, like DEMOLIENDO HOTELES. A great song who say: “ME, WHO BORN WITH VIDELA/ ME, WHO BORN WITHOUT POWER/ me, who fought for freedom, but I could never have it”. 

My favorite Charly’s album is CLIX MODERNOS. In that album, Pedro Aznar played the bass. Charly and Jorge González have a thing in common: they were part of the resistance music on the 70’s and 80’s, a really hard time for Latin America. They music makes me feel a lot of things, like nostalgic (because remember me to my parents and their lives at that times).