Charly Garcia - Music, Bio, Videos

Charly García (born Carlos Alberto García Moreno on October 23, 1951) is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.

Charly García was the eldest son in an upper-middle class family. His father taught mathematics and physics in elementary school, while his mother produced radio music shows, mainly shows featuring folkloric music.
Charly began to show musical talent at an early age. At three, he received a toy piano as a gift, and soon he surprised his mother with his ability to compose and play coherent melodies, leading her to enlist him in a prestigious conservatory, the Thibaud Piazzini. At age twelve, he graduated as a Music Professor. Charly developed absolute pitch as a child.

The Beatles appeared in Charly's life when he was thirteen. Having previously only been exposed to classical music and folk, he would describe the Beatles as "classical music from Mars". In high school he met Carlos Alberto "Nito" Mestre and the two fused their bands to give birth to Sui Generis.

Charly formed several bands over the years, but then in 1982, Argentina was undergoing political change. After the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur) in June, social chaos erupted and the military government lost much of its power. The kidnappings had stopped and censorship had weakened.
Charly García debuted as a soloist with a double LP, Pubis Angelical (Angelical Pubis), which was the eponymous movie's soundtrack, and the powerful Yendo de la cama al living (Going from the bed to the living room). Four hit songs from this album left their historical mark:

1 - "No bombardeen Buenos Aires" (Don't bomb Buenos Aires) showed the panic in lived out in the city during the Falklands War, and strongly criticized the army, especially the President Leopoldo Galtieri (Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, on the other side of the trenches at that time, also criticized Galtieri in their Final Cut 1983 album).

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG_noF0k9C8

2 - "Yendo de la cama al living" (Going from the bed to the living room) used the experience of being trapped in a confined space as a symbol of the repression of ideas.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anm5WrbbcjU

3 - "Inconsciente colectivo" (Collective unconsciousness) was a message of hope and liberty for the stricken Argentine people.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-P3jSuJRY&feature=fvst

4 - "Yo no quiero volverme tan loco" (I don't want to go that crazy) was a song about the adolescent spirit of freedom and rebelliousness.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-cz8ZWt-cw

The LP's presentation took place in December at the Ferrocarril Oeste Stadium (or Ferro). As the song "No bombardeen Buenos Aires" drew to a close near the end of the show, backdrop props simulating Buenos Aires were destroyed with fireworks.

In 1983, Charly left Buenos Aires with a small suitcase. When he came back to Buenos Aires from New York, he brought a quality LP titled Clics Modernos (Modern Clix) that was different from anything previously done in Argentine rock — it was highly singable rock music you could also dance to. Its strong message referred the past years: Exodus in "Plateado sobre plateado (huellas en el mar)" (Silver on Silver, Footprints on the Sea), repression in "Nos siguen pegando abajo" (They keep hitting us down there), "No me dejan salir" (They won't let me out) and "Los dinosaurios" (The Dinosaurs), a nostalgic but defiant remembrance of those who were kidnapped or killed.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UILQU0VEWII

On December 10, the course of Argentine history took a turn as the government became a democracy. Charly performed many well-received shows in 1984, and recorded another album during its last months. García also recorded an LP called Terapia intensiva (Intensive care), another movie soundtrack. Piano Bar was released in 1984, completing García's golden trilogy.

Terapia Intensiva
Charly García
1984