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'Soda Stereo' or 'Soda Stéreo' is an influential Argentine rock power trio formed in 1982 (see 1982 in music) consisting of guitarist and vocalist Gustavo Cerati, bassist Zeta Bosio and drummer Charly Alberti. The band established what would become the template for many other popular Spanish-speaking pop and rock music groups: clever, often mysterious lyrics, pleasing musical arrangements and an elaborate and glamorous aesthetic image.
In 1997, after a farewell tour through Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, and finally Argentina, they disbanded due to personal problems between the members and different artistic criteria.^[1] On September 20, Soda Stereo played their last show, in front of 65,000 people at the Estadio Monumental (or River Plate Stadium) in Buenos Aires.^[2][3]
On June 9, 2007, amid rumours about a reunion,^[4] a tour named "Me Verás Volver" was announced, which would start on October 19 at the River Plate stadium, where their last live performance took place ten years before.^[5]

Contents

Overview

Comeback

Solo work

Gustavo Cerati

Zeta Bosio

Charly Alberti

Discography

Studio albums

Videography

Live and Remix albums

Compilations

References

External links

Overview

Formed in Buenos Aires, Argentina in early 1980. Gustavo Cerati, Charly Alberti and Zeta Bosio decided to create a power trio and a year later they released two demos and started to play regularly in a bar called "Bar Zero". After a few shows, a CBS producer decided to give the band a chance.^[6] In 1984, their eponymic debut album, ''Soda Stereo'' was released, produced by Federico Moura, lead singer of the band Virus. In October, 1984 they played at the Rock & Pop festival with INXS, Nina Hagen and Charly García.^[7]
Their second LP, ''Nada Personal'' was released in 1985 and afirmed the popularity of the band with some instantaneous classics such as "Nada Personal" and "Cuando Pase el Temblor".¹ The video of the single "''Cuando Pase el Temblor''" was nominated in the category "Finalist Video" on the 12° World Festival of Video and TV.^[8]
Released in 1986, ''Signos'' represented the breakthrough from Argentina to the rest of Latin America:^[9] this was the first Argentine-rock album to be released in compact disc, although this version was released in 1988.⁶ ''Signos'' contained songs such as "Persiana Americana", "Signos" and "Profugos" that gave the band the possibility to conquer wider audiences.⁹ Soda Stereo embarked in an extensive tour through Latin America to promote the album, they gave 22 concerts in 17 cities.⁸ A live album called ''Ruido Blanco'' was released, it contained the songs recorded in the ''Signos supporting tour'' without the intention to be published.⁶
After over a year recording new material, ''Doble Vida'' was released in 1988. The album, produced by David Bowie's guitarist Carlos Alomar, was recorded and mixed in New York.^[10] The first three songs of the album were released as singles, "Picnic en el 4B", "En la Ciudad de la Furia" and "Lo que Sangra (La Cúpula)". ''Languis'' was released as an EP in the next year, and contained only one new song, "Mundo de Quimeras".
It was their sixth album, ''Canción Animal'', released in 1990 that represented the band's peak:¹ the songs are among the band's strongest and most popular,^[11] the album contained the instant hit "De Música Ligera", the single "Un Millón de Años Luz", the exquisite "Té para Tres" and the anthem "(En) El Séptimo Día". Overall, the album is considered as the most consisted work by the band, along with ''Signos''.¹¹ On December 14, 1991 (see 1991 in music) they played a concert in front of 250.000 people on the 9 de Julio Avenue.⁸
In late 1992 Soda Stereo released ''Dynamo'', their least popular album. This LP was Soda's most ignored, and most experimental work.^[12] The band played the album almost in its entirety in Nicolás Reppeto's talk-show, ''Fax''. This was the first stereophonic TV transmission in Argentina.⁶ Shortly after the release, bassist Zeta Bosio suffered the loss of his son in a car accident which pushed the band to stop touring and promoting the album and go into a hiatus during which singer Gustavo Cerati started his solo career with his debut album Amor Amarillo.
Their last studio album, ''Sueño Stereo'' was released in 1995 after a few years of silence. Three singles became hits after being released, "Ella Usó mi Cabeza como un Revolver", "Paseando por Roma" and "Zoom". ''Sueño Stereo'' reached platinum disc after only 15 days of the release.⁷ MTV Unplugged's ''Comfort y Música Para Volar'' was released a year later, and contained not only unplugged songs, it also contained outtakes.^[13]
On 1 May 1997, personal problems between the members and different artistic criteria led the band to announce its end and started the final tour on July 1997. Their last concert given on 20 September at the River Plate Stadium was recorded and released in two parts, ''El Último Concierto A'' and ''El Último Concierto B''.²

Comeback

After 10 years of their dissolution, rumours stated that Soda would tour South America before the end of the year.⁴ A reunion tour was finally announced on June 9, 2007 as the "Me Verás Volver" tour (refering to lyrics on ''Doble Vida's "Ciudad de la Furia"). The tour will start at the River Plate stadium on October 19, 2007, where they gave their last concert. Me Verás Volver will feature concerts in different countries of America, and will end before 2008. After the tour, the members of the band plan to continue with their individual careers.^[14] 90.000 tickets were sold in only 24 hours, and the band added one more show to the schedule,^[15] and after three days, the tickets for the first three shows were sold out, and the band added two more shows to the tour.^[16] The expected amount of fans attending the five shows is more than 300,000, making Soda Stereo one of the most wached public events,^[17] and the only Argentine band to play more than five times in the Estadio Monumental.^[18]
As of 25 August 2007, 16 shows have been confirmed.^[19]
As of 11 August 2007, 14 shows have been confirmed, including two on Chile's Estadio Nacional, four on Mexico on different stadiums, one in Colombia and one in The Home Depot Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.^[19]

Solo work

Each member of the band has continued to work in music following the breakup of Soda Stereo.

Gustavo Cerati

Cerati worked with Daniel Melero in his 1992 album ''Colores Santos'', he co-wrote and produced most of the songs and although the album was never formally presented, two singles were released, "Vuelta por el Universo" and "Hoy ya no Soy Yo".^[21]
Cerati's first solo album was ''Amor Amarillo'' (1993), it contained collaborations by Zeta Bosio and his wife Cecilia Amenábar.^[22] After Soda's separation, Cerati released the studio albums ''Bocanada'' (1999), ''+Bien'' (2001) and ''Siempre Es Hoy'' (2002). He also released ''11 Episodios Sinfónicos'' in 2002 and contained some Soda Stereo and solo songs played live with a symphony orchestra. Cerati's last release, ''Ahí Vamos!'', is considered as a back-to-basics return.^[23]

Zeta Bosio

Bosio has had a low profile over the years. He is working with Proyecto Under, an online portal for musicians. He also produced albums with many bands, such as Aguirre and Peligrosos Gorriones.^[24] In a recent interview, he declared that he has no interest to play in a band.^[25] He is also the artistic director of an independient label, Alerta Records.^[26]
In 1997 he produced Nacion Hip Hop, a CD compilation of local underground rap artists that's considered the founding stone of Argentine's hip hop scene. He also worked closely with hip hop act Tumbas (who opened for Soda Stereo in their last concert) and DJ Tortuga who later became part of the experimental hip-hop trio Koxmoz.

Charly Alberti

Alberti released only one studio album without Soda Stereo in 1994, ''Plum'', along with his then girlfriend, supermodel Deborah de Corral,^[27] and since 1997 Alberti became interested in informatics, he was involved in running his company Cybrel Digital Entertainment, that aimed at generating and implementing content based technologies. He was named an Applemaster for his contributions to the music world.^[28]
In 1998, he started two new projects, URL Magazine, a culture magazine, and URL Records, a discographic label. He is also the founder of YeYeYe and Musike, two portals about music and entertainment.²⁸
Alberti recently formed another rock band with his brother, Andrés Alberti, and recorded their first album named as the band, ''MOLE''.^[29] Alberti stated that he does not want Mole's sound to sound like Soda Stereo, he wants "Mole to live by itself."^[30]

Discography

Studio albums 'Year of release' 'Title' 'Label' 1984 ''Soda Stereo'' CBS 1985 ''Nada Personal'' CBS 1986 ''Signos'' CBS 1988 ''Doble Vida'' CBS 1990 ''Canción Animal'' CBS 1992 ''Dynamo'' CBS 1995 ''Sueño Stereo'' Sony BMG Videography 'Date of release' 'Title' 'Label' 1988 ''Ruido Blanco'' CBS 1991 ''Canción Animada'' CBS 2004 ''Una Parte de la Euforia'' Sony Music 2005 ''El Último Concierto'' Sony BMG

Live and Remix albums 'Year of release' 'Title' 'Label' 1987 ''Ruido Blanco'' CBS 1989 ''Languis'' (EP) CBS 1991 ''Rex Mix'' CBS 1996 ''Comfort y Música Para Volar'' Sony BMG 1997 ''El Último Concierto A'' Sony BMG 1997 ''El Último Concierto B'' Sony BMG Compilations 'Year of release' 'Title' 'Label' 1994 ''Zona de Promesas'' CBS 1994 ''20 Grandes Éxitos'' CBS 1997 ''Chau Soda'' ('U.S. #46')[31] Sony BMG 2001 ''Obras Cumbres, Vol. 1'' Sony BMG 2001 ''Obras Cumbres, Vol. 2'' Sony BMG 2007 ''Me Verás Volver (Hits & +)'' Sony BMG

References

1. Soda Stereo > Biography
2. Tomátelo con Soda Adriana Franco
3. Soda Stereo entonó anoche su largo adiós Javier Rombouts
4. Soda Stereo ya prepara su regreso
5. Me Verás Volver
6. Soda Stereo
7. La banda
8. Biografía
9. ''Signos'' > Overview
10. Doble Vida > Overview
11. ''Canción Animal'' > Overview
12. ''Dynamo'' > Overview
13. ''Confort y Música para Volar'' > Overview
14. Soda vuelve una década después
15. Récord Histórico
16. Nuevas Funciones
17. Soda empató el récord de los Stones
18. A los cinco shows en River, Soda Stereo suma uno en Córdoba
19. Gira 2007
20. Gira 2007
21. ''Colores Santos''
22. Gustavo Cerati
23. ''Ahí Vamos'' > Overview
24. Zeta Bosio
25. Zeta Bosio
26. Staff
27. Charly Alberti
28. Biografía
29. MOLE
30. Charly Alberti: "Ser un ex Soda facilita las cosas" Gaspar Zimerman
31. Soda Stereo > Charts and Awards

External links

★ Soda Stereo official web site

★ Gustavo Cerati official web site

★ Charly Alberti official web site