Eduardo Gatti

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Eduardo Gatti Benoit (born September 26, 1949 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean Canto author .

Career

Eduardo Gatti

Gatti played the accordion for a few years and studied classical guitar with Arturo González for three years . He then played in The Clouds , a youth band from his school and later the group Apparition , with whom he recorded four singles, including a cover version of Cuando un Hombre se Enamora . After studying music at the Conservatory in 1970 he went on a trip to Europe, where he saw performances by Pink Floyd , Procol Harum and Fleetwood Mac , among others .

After his return to Chile in 1970 he became a member of the Los Blops group , which at that time included Juan Pablo Orrego , Julio Villalobos , Sergio Bezard and Juan Contreras . Until the group broke up in 1973, three albums were made: Blops (1970), Blops ll (197l) and La Locomotora (1973). Then he worked u. a. as a guitarist on a Chilean version of the opera Jesus Christ Superstar , taught music, worked for Radio Concierto and traveled to Germany, among other places.

In 1978 Gatti and Juan Pablo Orrego re-founded the Blop group . Both studied indigenous music in Peru and Ecuador, and Gatti composed titles such as Huacas del Sol y de la Luna , Sambayé (with Juan Pablo Orrego) and Naomí . From 1980 Gatti worked as a soloist. He released the album Eduardo Gatti in 1982 and Gatti II the following year , the latter with the title song of the film El último grumete , Navegante . At the Teatro Providencia in Santiago he gave four sold out concerts, from which BMG put together the double album Gatti en vivo in 1986 .

In 1991 he performed at the Festival de la Canción de Viña del Mar and was then invited to perform with Mercedes Sosa and León Gieco . In 1994 he traveled to Brazil and the USA and was invited by Paul McCartney to open his concert at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago. In 1998 EMI published a compilation of his most successful songs under the title De Momentos, viajes y navegantes , another scrapbook was released in 1998 under the title Por las tierras de la loba .

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