Música Ligera

Soda Stereo

Soda Stereo was an Argentine rock band that is considered by critics to be the most important and influential Ibero-American band of all time and a Latin music legend. Formed in Buenos Aires in 1982, the power trio made up of Gustavo Cerati (lead vocals, guitars), Héctor "Zeta" Bosio (bass), and Charly Alberti (drums) achieved international success throughout the 1980s and 1990s, playing a pivotal role in the surfacing, development and dissemination of Latin and Ibero-American rock. They were the first Latin rock group to achieve success throughout the Latin world, including their native South America, as well as Central and North America (primarily in Mexico, and within the Spanish-speaking population of the United States); the band even achieved a sizable following in Spain.

In 1997, following a period of friction and conflict, the band broke up due to personal and artistic differences of opinion among its members (including Cerati's now-reality solo career), performing a short and emotional tour that ended on September 20, 1997 at the River Plate Stadium in what is known by the band and its fans alike as El Último Concierto (The Last Concert).

In mid-2007, the band announced their return to make a single continental tour called "Gira Me Verás Volver," in which more than one million fans gathered, breaking several Latin-American records for concert attendance and ticket sales.

They were touring in Latin America and part of the United States without imagining that this would be their last tour. This time life was preparing something different, and force them to split again. This time they did not split because they did not get along, but because the vocalist Gustavo Cerati suffered a stroke in 2010 in Caracas after a performance. Which resulted in him being in a coma for 4 years, and later died in 2014. Their music breaks generation gaps where young and old can enjoy their music alike. A signature saying of Cerati was: "¡No solo no hubiéramos sido nada sin ustedes, sino con toda la gente que estuvo a nuestro alrededor desde el comienzo; algunos siguen hasta hoy! ¡Gracias totales!" Which translates: "Not only we would not have been anything without you, but without all of the people that were around us since the beginning; some continue till this day! Thanks a lot!"

De Musica Ligera

(Light Music)

She slept

In the heat of the masses

And I woke up

Wanting to dream of her

A while ago

I thought about writing to her

And I never avoided

The pitfalls of love

That love

Of light music (gentle music)

Nothing frees us,

Nothing else remains

I will not send

Rose ashes

Nor shall I avoid

A secret contact

That love

Of light music

Nothing frees us,

Nothing else remains

Works Cited

"Social Media: Fcebook Soda Stereo - Oficial Músico/banda." Web. 22 Mar. 2015.

Soda Stero. "De Musica Ligera." You Tube. You Tube, 29 Jun. 2010.