Gustavo Santaolalla

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Gustavo Santaolalla at the Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara in 2008.

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born August 19, 1951 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine musician , music producer , songwriter and film composer . He is considered to be the co-founder of Latin American rock en Español and has been known in the international music industry as a successful discoverer and promoter of artists from Latin America since the 1980s. In 2005, Santaolalla was named one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Latin Americans in the United States , while in 2006 and 2007 he won the Oscar for best film composer .

biography

Band member and producer role

Gustavo Santaolalla was born in El Palomar, a suburb of Buenos Aires, in 1951. He grew up playing American music from Nat King Cole to the Beach Boys before deciding to embark on a musical career. The rock 'n' roll and Latin American culture very fond of, he became as a band leader, founded in 1967 group Arco Iris one of the key figures of the Argentine rock. Santaolalla is considered a pioneer in the fusion of rock and Latin American folk , the so-called rock en Español , although jazz and African influences also determined his style of music at the time. In the mid-1970s, Santaolalla founded the Soluna group , before the government was overthrown in Argentina in 1976 and a military dictatorship was established under Jorge Rafael Videla . In 1978 Santaolalla was forced to leave his homeland and moved to the USA. Here he gained his first experience in the American music market as the band leader of the punk group Wet Picnic , before he worked as a music producer. Together with his professional colleague Anibal Kerpel , he founded the record company Surco Records , a joint venture with Universal Music . As president of the music label Surco came great success, and today Santaolalla is considered to be the discoverer and supporter of such well-known Latin American artists and groups as Juanes , Molotov , Café Tacuba , Caifanes , Maldita Vecindad , Divididos , Bersuit , La Vela Puerca , Puya , Arbol , El Otro Yo , Fiebre and Dracma . In 2003 he received three Grammy nominations for the albums by Juanes and Orishas and as producer of the Kronos Quartet album Nuevo . In 2004 he won a Grammy for the producer of the piece "Cuatro Caminos" by Café Tacuba.

Santaolalla started his solo career in 1981 with his album “Santaolalla” , which was followed in 1995 by “GAS”, named after his initials, with the successful track “Todo Vale” . He celebrated his breakthrough a year later with the instrumentals on his album "Ronroco" , which received great reviews. Gustavo Santaolalla is also a co-founder of the Bajofondo Tango Club , which has set itself the goal of interpreting Tango Argentino from the perspective of current music styles such as trip-hop , house , chill out and drum and bass . The very first album was awarded a Latin Grammy in 2003.

Career as a film composer

His work as a film composer began while working with the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu . In 2001, Santaolalla received a nomination for the Premio Ariel , the most important Mexican film award, for the music for his episode film Amores Perros , which was highly praised by the critics . In 2002 Gustavo Santaolalla set González Iñárritus' contribution to the episode film 11'09 ″ 01 - September 11 , in which several directors from different countries dealt with the attack on the towers of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 . Again with Gonzalez Inarritu wrote the music for the episode film 21 Grams with Sean Penn , Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro , where he severely sounding electronic vibrato - guitars and - bandoneon sounds combined with electronic music and drums. For the soundtrack, to which the Kronos Quartet also contributed, the Argentine was honored as Discovery of the Year at the World Soundtrack Awards 2004 . In 2004 Santaolalla created another multi-faceted score for Walter Salles ' road movie Die Reise des Junge Che . Here the composer relied on the guitar as his primary musical instrument in addition to folk-oriented and electronic sounds and won the Argentine Film Critics Award and the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award).

Santaolalla was successful with his work on Ang Lee's drama Brokeback Mountain , for which he wrote the country- oriented film music and the two ballads "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" and "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me" , interpreted by Emmylou Harris and Mary McBride , respectively , contributed. At the 2006 Academy Awards , he was able to prevail against the competition in the Best Film Music category . Santaolalla also won the Satellite Award for "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" with British poet Bernie Taupin . The Argentine was able to assert himself in the same category at the 2006 Golden Globe Awards and received a nomination in the category of best film music . In the same year he also created the film music for Niki Caro's drama Kaltes Land with Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand . 2006 saw the fourth collaboration with Alejandro González Iñárritu, for whom he composed the musical theme of his film Babel . The modern parable of the biblical tower, on which he worked with the Japanese Ryuichi Sakamoto , among others , brought Santaolalla again the Oscar and the BAFTA Award in 2007, as well as a nomination for the Golden Globe. At Babel , too , Santaolalla, in contrast to Oscar-nominated colleagues such as Alexandre Desplat ( The Queen ) or Philip Glass ( Diary of a Scandal ), did without pompous orchestral sounds and, in terms of musical style, tied in with his previous compositions for Amores Perros and 21 Gramm .

In 2008 Santaolalla wrote the screenplay for his award-winning documentary Café de los maestros together with Miguel Kohan , in which Argentinian musicians are interviewed about the golden age of tango . In 2010 he wrote the film music for the German production Nanga Parbat by Joseph Vilsmaier . In the same year there was another collaboration with Alejandro González Iñárritu on the drama Biutiful , and in 2012 another collaboration with Walter Salles on the road movie On the Road , based on the novel by Jack Kerouac .

Gustavo Santaolalla, who also worked on the soundtracks to Miguel Arteta's Star Maps (1997), Michael Manns Insider (1999) and the animated film Shrek 2 (2004), lives in Los Angeles and is married to the photographer Alejandra Palacios. The marriage had three children.

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1981: Santaolalla
  • 1995: GAS
  • 1996: Ronroco

Film music (selection)

Video game music (selection)

Awards

Oscar

Golden Globe Award

  • 2006 : Best film song for "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" (Brokeback Mountain)
  • 2006: Nominated in the Best Score for Brokeback Mountain category
  • 2007 : nominated in the category Best Film Music for Babel

British Academy Film Award

  • 2005: Best score for The Journey of Young Che
  • 2006 : Nominated in the Best Score for Brokeback Mountain category
  • 2007 : Best Score for Babel

Further

Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2005: Best score for The Journey of Young Che
  • 2009: nominated in the category Best Screenplay (Documentary) for Café de los maestros

Ariel Awards

  • 2001: nominated in the category best film music: Amores Perros (together with Daniel Hidalgo )
  • 2011: nominated in the category Best Film Music: Biutiful

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2007: nominated in the category Best Film Music for Babel

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2006: Best Score for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2006: nominated in the category Best Film Music for Babel

Clarin Entertainment Awards

  • 2004: Best score for Young Che's Journey

Goya

  • 2011: nominated in the category Best Film Music for Biutiful

Hollywood Film Festival

  • 2006: Film composer of the year for Babel

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2005: Best Score for Brokeback Mountain

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2006: Best Score for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2007: nominated in the category Best Film Music for Babel

Prêmio Contigo Cinema

  • 2009: Special prize for Linha de Passe

Satellite Awards

  • 2005 : Best film song for "A Love That Will Never Grow Old", nominated in the category Best Film Music for Brokeback Mountain
  • 2006: Best Score for Babel

World Soundtrack Awards

  • 2004: Discovery of the year for 21 grams
  • 2006: Audience Award for, nominated in the categories of Best Film Song for “A Love That Will Never Grow Old” and Best Film Music for Brokeback Mountain

literature

  • Gieco, León; Santaolalla, Gustavo; Kleiman, Claudio: De ushuaia a la quiaca . Buenos Aires: Retina, 2004. ISBN 987-21815-1-9 (Spanish edition)
  • Lechner, Ernesto: Rock en Español: the Latin alternative rock explosion . Chicago, Ill .: Chicago Review Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55652-603-2 (English edition)
  • The 25 most influential Hispanics in America . Chicago [u. a.]: Time Inc., 2005. ISSN  0040-781X (English edition)

Web links

Commons : Gustavo Santaolalla  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All- rounder Gustavo Santaolalla: Mixing in and mixing up at spiegel.de (January 14, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Santaolalla, Gustavo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Santaolalla, Gustavo Alfredo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian music producer, composer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires