León Gieco
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León Gieco | |
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interpreter, social activist |
Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco,
Biography
Leon Gieco was born into a family of Italian origin on November 20, 1951, in Santa Fe Province, Argentina. At 6 years old, Gieco traveled with his family from the field to the village center due to economic problems. At age 8, Gieco bought his first guitar on credit, and soon began playing music at local events with his father's band. Throughout his childhood, Gieco played with local bands such as a folkloric group called Los Nocheros (The Night Watchers) and Los Moscos (The Flies), a rock band that gained some popularity within Argentina. In 1965, Gieco traveled to Bolivia as an exchange student. He studied music and played guitar at local festivities.
When Gieco turned 18, he went to
In 1976 Gieco released El Fantasma de Canterville ("The Ghost of Canterville"). The record suffered a great deal of
On December 20, 1979, the Argentine Minister of Education announced the closing of the
In 1981 Gieco started a 3-year, 110,000-kilometre-long series of independent concerts all over Argentina, playing for a total of 420,000 people. He gathered material from the different places he visited during the tour, and recorded the first volume of De Ushuaia a La Quiaca ("From Ushuaia to La Quiaca" in Buenos Aires with various autochthonous musicians in 1985. The following De Ushuaia a La Quiaca 2 and De Ushuaia a La Quiaca 3 were recorded in a mobile studio in different locations of the country.
In 1985, Gieco went to Moscow for the 12th "World Youth and Students' Festival" alongside Juan Carlos Baglietto and Litto Nebbia, representing Argentina. In 1986 and 1987, he held concerts in Germany with his friend Mercedes Sosa, including that of Berlin's Political Song Festival.
Gieco returned to Argentina and performed free concerts, one for 40,000 spectators at the
.In 1988, Gieco performed in Germany and
, and others.After eight years of touring, Semillas del corazón ("Seeds of the heart") marked his return to the studio in 1989. That same year he performed at the Teatro Ópera in Buenos Aires with
In 1992, he played with
.Gieco began his most recent national tour for social justice, Mundo Alas, in 2007. Argentine musicians, dancers, singers, and painters, all with
During his stop in Buenos Aires on his 2013 Wrecking Ball World Tour, Bruce Springsteen filmed a video for a solo acoustic performance of "Sólo le Pido a Dios".[2]
Discography
- León Gieco (1973)
- La Banda de los Caballos Cansados (1974)
- El fantasma de Canterville (1976)
- IV LP (1978)
- Siete años (1980)
- Pensar en nada (1981)
- Corazón americano / El gran concierto (1985)
- De Ushuaia a La Quiaca 1 (1985)
- De Ushuaia a La Quiaca 2 (1985)
- De Ushuaia a La Quiaca 3 (1985)
- Semillas del corazón (1989)
- Ayer y hoy (1989)
- Concierto en vivo con Pete Seeger (1990)
- Mensajes del alma (1992)
- Desenchufado (1994)
- Orozco (1997)
- En el país de la libertad (1999)
- De Ushuaia a La Quiaca 4 (1999)
- 40 obras fundamentales (2000)
- Bandidos rurales (2001)
- Por partida doble (2001)
- El vivo de León (2003)
- De Ushuaia a La Quiaca (re-edition) (2005)
- Por Favor, Perdón y Gracias (2005)
- El Vivo de Leon (2003)
- El Desembarco (2011)
- El Hombrecito del Mar (2022)
See also
References
- ^ "León Gieco, el Bob Dylan argentino cumple 65 años en medio de la polémica" (in Spanish). Europa Press. 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- YouTube
External links
- Gieco's official page
- Biography (in Spanish)
- La Cultura es la Sonrisa on YouTube
- Mundo Alas
- Village Voice
- Becker, Elizabeth (December 2010). "THE MADRES DE PLAZA DE MAYO, AND LEÓN GIECO" (PDF). Master of Arts in History (in Spanish). Graduate College of Bowling Green. pp. 1–147. (link broken)
- "Leon Gieco". 1996–2011.