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Carnaval toda la vida
El león · 1992
Manuel Santillán, el león
El león · 1992
Gitana
El león · 1992
Siguiendo la luna
El león · 1992
Gallo rojo
El león · 1992
El crucero del amor
El león · 1992
Destino de paria
El león · 1992
Arde Buenos Aires
El león · 1992
Desapariciones
El león · 1992
Venganza
El león · 1992
1 album|s · 1992
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Biography
Among their most ambitious works is Fabulosos Calavera (1997), an album that reeks of pure experimentation. Inspired by texts from Ernesto Sabato, the record oscillates between the eerie and the festive, with passages that sound like rituals and others that feel like street parties. The band brought it to life with the Calavera Experimental Concherto, a series of shows where music and theater blurred together. But if there’s one album that took them beyond borders, it was Rey azúcar (1995), where salsa and ska embrace with lyrics about injustices and broken dreams, all wrapped in melodies that dance without asking permission. By then, they were already a band that not only sounded loud but also thought big.
The most tangible recognition came in 1998, when they won a Grammy for Best Latin Album for Fabulosos Calavera. It wasn’t an isolated achievement: before that, the “Matador” music video had won the first People’s Choice Video award at MTV Latin America (1994), and years later, “La vida” would repeat the feat. But they never stayed still. In 2008, the death of Toto Rotblat — their percussionist since 1990 — shook them, but they returned with the Satánico Pop Tour, a tour that took them across Latin America and the United States with La luz del ritmo. Today, with over three decades in the game, they remain that band that blends the raw with the sophisticated, the local with the universal, never losing the spark that made them different from the first chord.
Details
- Born
- 19 Jan 1985
- Country
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- Genre
- Ska
Awards and honors
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Grammy
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Latin Grammy
Members
- trumpet · actual
- Daniel Lozano
- · actual
- Fernando Ricciardi
- founder · actual
- Mario Siperman
- founder · actual
- Sr. Flavio
- founder · actual
- Vicentico
- · 1996–present
- Ariel Minimal
- saxophone, founder · 2008–present
- Sergio Rotman
- · 2016–present
- FLORIAN
- · 1991–2008
- Gerardo Rotblat
- · 1991–2002
- Fernando Albareda
- founder · ¿?–1990
- Luciano Jr.
- tenor saxophone · ¿?–1991
- Naco Goldfinger
- founder · ¿?–1996
- Aníbal Rigozzi
- saxophone, founder · ¿?–1997
- Sergio Rotman
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