Argentine rock is rock music composed or performed by Argentine bands or artists mostly in Spanish.
The Premios MTV Latinoamérica were the Latin American version of the Video Music Awards. They were established in 2002 to celebrate the top music videos of the year in Latin America and the world. They are presented annually and broadcast live on MTV Networks Latin America. Until 2004, all the VMALAs were held in Miami. The 2005 edition was the first one planned to be held outside the United States, but the show was cancelled. The 2006 VMALAs were held in Mexico City, and therefore were the first ones to actually be celebrated in Latin America. In 2010 the awards were permanently cancelled.
Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas (IKV) is an Argentine musical duo from Buenos Aires, formed in 1991 and consisting of Dante Spinetta and Emmanuel Horvilleur. The duo split in 2001 to follow solo careers, but later performed together several times, and officially reunited in 2011. The duo took their name from a fictional character, the Soviet spy Illya Kuryakin in the hit 1960s TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the Colombian football player Carlos Valderrama. Their musical style is extremely wide-ranging, including hip-hop, rock, funk, and salsa.
Fabián Andrés González Amado, known by his stage name Tweety González, is an Argentine musician and record producer. González is mostly known for playing the keyboard for Argentine rock band Soda Stereo and Argentine musician Fito Páez. Tweety is also a music producer and has worked with artists Shakira, Gustavo Cerati, Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Superlitio, Famasloop and several others. Gustavo Cerati's 2006 Ahí vamos in which Tweety played keyboards won the Latin Grammy for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album.
Dante Spinetta is an Argentine singer/composer who is part of the duo Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas.
Alejandro Rozitchner is an Argentine writer. "Artist of the ideas" or "intellectual nutritionist" are some of the names with which he describes his work. He is characterized by his affirmative thinking, his appreciation for enthusiasm, and for his open, casual, and provocative style.
Artaud is the third and final studio album credited to Argentine rock band Pescado Rabioso, released in October 1973 on Talent-Microfón. It is essentially the second solo album by singer-songwriter Luis Alberto Spinetta, who used the group's name despite their disbandment earlier that year.
The 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on Thursday, November 21, 2013, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. This was the sixth time that Latin Grammys has been held at this location. The main telecast was broadcast on Univision at 8:00 PM EST.
El jardín de los presentes ; Spanish for "the garden of the present ones" or "the garden of presents") is the third and final album by the Argentine rock band Invisible, released on 29 September 1976 on CBS Records. The recording sessions and release of the album took place during a grim moment in Argentine history: a coup d'état in March 1976 installed a military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process in the country, inaugurating an era of state terrorism.
Almendra is the self-titled debut studio album by Argentine rock band Almendra which was released in 1969 on Vik, a subsidiary of RCA Victor. To distinguish it from the band's next release, Almendra II, it is also known as Almendra I. The album represented the first full-length musical endeavour of nineteen-year-old Luis Alberto Spinetta, having formed the band in the mid 1960s along with Emilio del Guercio, Edelmiro Molinari and Rodolfo García. The famous artwork, showing a crying man with a toy arrow stuck on his head, was designed by Spinetta to embody the different lyrical themes of the album.
The 17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held on November 17, 2016 at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada.
The 19th Annual Premios Gardel ceremony were held on June 6, 2017. The TN network broadcast the show live from the Gran Rex Theatre in Buenos Aires. The ceremony recognizes the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, which runs from January 1, 2016 to January 31, 2016.
The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock is a 2007 special issue of Rolling Stone Argentina, the local edition of the American magazine that is published monthly by S.A. La Nación. It was made available in newsstands on April 3. That month, Rolling Stone Argentina was issued as a special "double anniversary edition", with the list being released alongside the magazine's usual publication. The issue celebrated the forty years of Argentine rock and the nine years of Rolling Stone Argentina. In 2013, a revised "bookazine" edition of the list was released, incorporating more albums from the 2000s.
Pescado 2, also known as Pescado Rabioso 2, is the second studio album by Argentine rock band Pescado Rabioso, released in 1973 on Talent-Microfón. It was recorded between November 1972 and February 1973 at Estudios Phonalex in Buenos Aires, shortly before the group's disbandment. Pescado 2 was released as a double album, consisting of two LP records titled Pescado and 2 (dos); and was intended to be listened as a whole, hence the tracks being listed from one to eighteenth. The first edition included a booklet with lyrics, photographs and drawings by Spinetta and his brother Gustavo.
Rafael “Rafa” Arcaute, is an Argentine songwriter, record producer and recording engineer. He has worked with several Latin American artists including Luis Alberto Spinetta, Shakira, C Tangana, Nathy Peluso, Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas, Calle 13, Christina Aguilera, Babasónicos and Andrés Calamaro. He has received eighteen Latin Grammy Awards, including two wins for Producer of the Year, and he has also won two American Grammys.
Chances is the seventh studio album by Argentine musical duo Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, released on October 31, 2012, through Sony Music Latin. The album was produced by the members of the duo, Dante Spinetta and Emmanuel Horvilleur, alongside Rafael Arcaute, it was mixed by Rafa Sardina, mastered by Chris Gehringer and includes a collaboration with Mexican band Molotov.
L.H.O.N., also called L.H.O.N. is the eighth studio album by Argentine musical duo Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, released on April 8, 2016, through Sony Music. The album was produced by Dante Spinetta and Emmanuel Horvilleur, the two members of the duo, and features collaborations with Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade and American singer Miguel.
Leche is the fifth studio album by Argentine musical duo Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, released on 10 August 1999, through Universal Music Argentina. The album was produced by Dante Spinetta and Emmanuel Horvilleur, the two members of the duo, with production from Nico Cota and Sergio Verdinelli in some tracks, and features American rapper Bootsy Collins in the last track of the album.
