38 Facts About Gustavo Cerati

Gustavo Adrian Cerati was an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter who gained international recognition for being the leader, vocalist, composer, and guitarist of the rock band Soda Stereo.

Gustavo Cerati is widely considered by critics, specialized press, and musicians as one of the most important and influential artists of Latin rock.

Gustavo Cerati returned to the rock style with his fourth album, Ahi vamos, which received acclaim from the public and critics, and which contains some of his greatest solo hits, such as "Crimen" and "Adios".

Four years later, on 4 September 2014, Gustavo Cerati died of cardiac arrest in Buenos Aires aged 55.

Gustavo Cerati was a prolific session player, he was a guest guitarist on songs by Caifanes, Babasonicos and Los Brujos, and he collaborated on songs with Charly Garcia, Andres Calamaro, Fito Paez, Shakira, Andy Summers, Roger Waters and Mercedes Sosa, among others.

Gustavo Cerati was born on 11 August 1959 in Barracas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Gustavo Cerati grew up in a middle class household; his paternal family was of Lombard descent and his maternal family was of Irish origin.

Gustavo Cerati's father was an accountant and regularly traveled abroad.

Gustavo Cerati was a good student until his third year of junior high school when he met a fellow student who, like himself, was into rock and roll.

Gustavo Cerati's family supported him with his music, "Mi familia me vio tan enloquecido con la musica, que pensaron que algo de exito iba a tener".

In 1982, after various lineup changes that included Richard Coleman, Daniel Melero, and Andres Calamaro as well as others, Bosio and Gustavo Cerati recruited Charly Alberti as their drummer, thus forming Soda Stereo.

In 1992 Gustavo Cerati recorded Colores Santos with electronic musician Daniel Melero, a longtime Soda Stereo collaborator.

In 1995 Gustavo Cerati teamed up with three Chilean musicians, Andres Bucci, Guillermo Ugarte, and Christian Powditch, to form Plan V Plan V released two albums Plan V, and Plan Black V Dog, a collaboration with the British electronic music group The Black Dog.

In 1999 Gustavo Cerati formed the electronic duo Ocio with longtime Soda Stereo collaborator and trumpeter, Flavio Etcheto, releasing Medida Universal.

Around this time Gustavo Cerati participated in the album Outlandos d'Americas: A Rock en Espanol Tribute to the Police collaborating with Andy Summers of The Police and Vinnie Colaiuta, on a cover of The Police's "Bring on the Night,".

Gustavo Cerati was accompanied by a 42-piece orchestra conducted by Alejandro Teran.

Gustavo Cerati took 11 Episodios Sinfonicos on the road, playing Mexico City, Caracas, Santiago, and finishing it off with three shows at the Gran Rex theater in Buenos Aires.

In November 2002 Gustavo Cerati released his third studio album Siempre es Hoy.

In 2003 Gustavo Cerati released Siempre es Hoy: Reversiones an album of remixes of Siempre es Hoy tracks from different Latin American Musicians and the German producer Wechsel Garland.

Simultaneously, Gustavo Cerati teamed up with longtime collaborator Flavio Etcheto, and Leandro Fresco to form the self-described "power laptop trio" Roken, which he played concurrently during the Siempre es Hoy tour.

The Ahi Vamos tour traveled through Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, Spain, and on 12 October 2006, Gustavo Cerati played London, England, for the first time in his career.

Gustavo Cerati won three Grammys, for Best Rock Vocal, best Rock song, and one for the best producer with his production work on Shakira's Fijacion Oral, Vol.

Gustavo Cerati closed the Ahi Vamos tour with a massive open-air show in Buenos Aires, held on the corner of Avenida Alcorta and Pampas.

In July 2007, Gustavo Cerati participated in the Live Earth Festival in Hamburg Germany, alongside Shakira.

In late 2008 Gustavo Cerati recruited many of the same musicians who worked on Ahi Vamos to begin work on his new album.

Gustavo Cerati played Stadiums and large venues in Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile, The United States, Uruguay, Colombia and Venezuela, 21 shows in total.

Gustavo Cerati's final show was held in Caracas, Venezuela on 15 May 2010.

Gustavo Cerati maintained a very low public profile and not much is known about his private life.

In 2008 Gustavo Cerati started dating the Argentine actress Leonora Balcarce.

Gustavo Cerati maintained from 2004 until his last days a close acquaintance with the Uruguayan artist Jill Mulleady.

Gustavo Cerati met Argentine model Chloe Bello during the summer of 2009, when she was 22 years old.

Gustavo Cerati invited Bello to attend the launch of Fuerza Natural in Mendoza and subsequently joined him on an international tour.

Gustavo Cerati suffered a stroke just after putting an end to this performance.

Gustavo Cerati developed the first symptoms of an unknown condition backstage.

Gustavo Cerati was hospitalized in Centro Medico La Trinidad in Caracas under medical surveillance.

Three days later, Gustavo Cerati underwent surgery to relieve pressure on his brain due to the stroke he suffered.

On 7 June 2010, Gustavo Cerati was transferred to the FLENI Neurological Institute in Buenos Aires.

British rock band Coldplay paid tribute to Gustavo Cerati by performing "De Musica Ligera" on the final concerts of their A Head Full of Dreams Tour in La Plata, Argentina, on 14 November 2017.