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Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012) known as "El Flaco" (the skinny guy) was an Argentine singer, guitarist, composer and poet. One of the most influential rock musicians of South America, together with Charly García he is considered the father of Argentine rock. Born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighbourhood of Bajo Belgrano, he was the founder of iconic rock bands Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade and Spinetta y los Socios del Desierto. Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions; the new generation, among sons of the middle class, were immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta devoted himself fully to his own music. In his lyrics, there are influences of multiple writers, poets and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Carlos Castaneda and Antonin Artaud, who has his name in the album ''Artaud''.〔(''Influencias'' ) 〕 On 23 December 2011 he published on the Twitter〔(''Carta pública'' ) 〕 account of his son Dante that he was facing lung cancer.〔(''La carta del Flaco'' )〕 He died on February 8, 2012 in his native Argentina, at the age of 62.〔(''Murió Luis Alberto Spinetta'' ) 〕 His ashes were scattered in the waters of the Río de la Plata, according to his last wish, next to the Memory Park built to remember the desaparecidos of the National Reorganization Process.〔(PAZ )〕 ==Music== In 1969, Spinetta's band, Almendra, recorded their first album. They started recording and playing intensively and later it became successful almost overnight. Almendra composed its own songs and their lyrics were written in Spanish, something which was radically new for Argentina's music history. After two albums that were received with critical acclaim and continuous radio diffusion, the band split. After a lengthy stay in Europe, Spinetta returned to Argentina and afterwards formed a new band: Pescado Rabioso. With a far more powerful sound and expressing through their songs and lyrics the tension of the streets in an increasingly violent Argentina, Pescado made their album debut in 1972. It was both a continuation of the creative stream of Spinetta and a drastic change in the style of his own music and lyrics. Later, the band recorded a second album. Although a third album, released in 1973 and called ''Artaud'', it carried the band's name when there were actually already dissolved. Therefore, it was mostly a solo album by Spinetta himself. Partly based on the writings of Antonin Artaud, Spinetta exorcised many of the demons of his past in this album. This process would open the door to a new era in his music. In 1974 he formed a new band, Invisible. With his new band he recorded three albums: ''Invisible'', ''Durazno Sangrando'' and ''El jardín de los presentes''. With Invisible, the new tunes were more harmonic. After recording and editing a failed album in the United States in 1979, with lyrics in English and destined to the U.S. market, Spinetta returned to Argentina to record two albums with a short-lived Almendra Revival (one with original songs and the other live), and embarked on a new project: Spinetta Jade. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luis Alberto Spinetta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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