The man who wrote Argentina's rebellion into rock. Charly García turned folk anthems into national memory, progressive sprawl into dictatorship resistance, and new wave into generational shorthand - then spent decades living loud enough to match the songs.
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Carlos Alberto García Moreno founded Sui Generis with classmate Nito Mestre in the early 70s, releasing three albums of folk-rock that became campfire standards and closed with a mythical 1975 farewell at Luna Park. He moved through PorSuiGieco and La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, planting progressive rock in Latin soil, then founded Serú Girán in the late 70s - a supergroup whose four albums carried veiled challenges to the military dictatorship until dissolution in 1982. His solo run began with Yendo de la cama al living that year and accelerated through a new wave trilogy - Clics modernos (1983), Piano bar (1984) - that rewrote what pop could hold, followed by another strong three-album stretch from 1987 to 1990. The 90s brought mounting drug trouble, media spectacle, and a first health scare; the Say no More era after 2000 sold poorly but packed rooms, ending with Rock and Roll YO (2003) and a long, patchy hiatus for rehab. He surfaced for El concierto subacuático (2010), Kill Gil, and Random (2017), collecting a Grammy for Musical Excellence (2009) and three Gardel de Oro awards along the way.
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