Soda Stereo

Today, we are going to talk about the most representative argentinian rock band, SODA STEREO.

The members of this band are:
- Gustavo Cerati (guitarist, vocalist).
- Zeta Bosio (bassist).
- Charly Alberti (drummer).

History:
It was formed in Buenos Aires in 1980. The 3 members, decided to creat a trio, and a year later they released two demos and started playing in different bars. After a few shows, CBS decided to give a chance to this trio.
It was 1984 when they released their debut album, Soda Stereo, thas was produced by Federico Moura, the leader of the ban Virus. That same year they played in the Rock & Pop festival.
Their second album was released a year later, and was called Nada Personal. They afirmed the popularity of the band, with songs such as, Nada Personal, and Cuando Pase el Temblor. The video of the second song was nominated as the Finalist Video on the 12º World Festival of Video and TV.
In 1986, they presented Signos, and it was the firs argentine-rock album released in Compact Disc, although this version was released in 1988. This album contain one of the most famous songs of Soda Stereo, Persiana America. It contains Signos and Profugos too. With this album they made a tour through Latin America, were they made 22 concerts in 17 cities. There it was made a live album, Ruido Blanco, that contains the songs recorded in the Signos Tour, but they didn´t published it.

After a year, they published Doble Vida in 1988. It contained the gratest hit of Soda Stereo, De Música Ligera. It also contains another very popular songs such as Un Millon de Años Luz, Té para Tres and (En) El Septimo Día. This album is considered the best work made by the band, along with Signos. On December 14, 1991, they played a concert for 250.000 peopleon the 9 de Julio avenue.
In 1992 they released their last album, Dynamo. This album was the most ignored work of the band, because of the lose of Zeto Bosio´s child in a car accident, that made the band to stop promoting this album. Here start some problems between the band.
However, in 1995 they released Sueño Stereo which contains Ella Usó mi Cabeza como un Revolver, Paseando por Roma and Zoom. This album obteins the platinum disc after fifhteen days of being presented.
On May 1, in 1997 personal problems in the band, made the members to announce its end and made the final tour on July 1997. They made their las concert in the River Plate Stadium, on September 20.

Solo Work:

After the broken up of the band, each member continued with their own´s works.

Gustavo Cerati:
He worked with Daniel Melero making a album called Colores Santos in 1992, but it was never really presented. However two singles alums appeared: Vuelta por el Universo and Hoy ya no Soy Yo.
His solo albums between 1993 and 2006 were Amor Amarillo, Bocanada, +Bien, Siempre es Hoy and Ahí Vamos!.

Zeta Bosio:
He has a low profile during this year. He didn´t make many works such as Cerati, but he help in producing albums wih bands like Aguirre and Peligrosos Gorriones.

Charly Alberti:
He made only one album after Soda Stereo separation, Plum, along with his girlfriend. After this album he became more interested in informatics and he started working for a company called Cybrel Digital Entertainment.
Alberti recently formed a ban with his brother, and made a album called as their band Mole.


Comeback:

After 10 years(1997 - 2007), they are going to make a tour around South América before the end of the year called Me Verás Volver. This tour will start at the River Plate Stadium (where they gave their las concert) on October 19, in this year. After this tours the band won´t continue, because the member of the band plan to continue with their individual careers.

Our Opinion:
Soda Stereo is one of the most important argentinian bands. It is great, between other things, that although it is and old band, and the generatios change a lot, their songs are well-known between children and teenagers, and they are played in all the discotheques.

Here we gave to you 3 videos of songs of Soda Stereo in their concerts:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ouIMi58e-Lk


http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=MGhwJs_DRHg

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ThG2KajD_wA

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=CKMQKIBIHBk&NR=1

Well, that´s all for now, I hope you enjoy reading this, and learning more about this fantastic band.