Pablo Lescano
Pablo Lescano Pablo Sebastián Lescano | |
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Background information | |
Also known as | Pablito |
Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | December 8, 1977
Genres | Cumbia villera |
Occupation(s) | musician, composer, singer |
Instruments | keyboards and voice |
Years active | 1995 - present |
Associated acts | Damas Gratis Fabulosos Cadillacs Miranda! |
Pablo Lescano (Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 8, 1977) is an Argentine singer, composer, keyboardist, and leader of Cumbia villera group Damas Gratis from 2000.[1] He is considered by many as the founder of the Cumbia villera sub-genre.
Biography[]
Born in 1977 in Villa La Esperanza in San Isidro, a poor suburb of Buenos Aires, Pablo Lescano made his first musical experience at the age of 13 years on a stolen -angeblich- Keyboard. As a youth he was active in several local cumbia bands until his 1997 (19) the commercial breakthrough in the band Amar Azul succeeded both as a keyboardist, on the other hand as a composer of many titles of the band.[2]
With the gained royalties to the sellers of Amar Azul; Pablo Lescano set about building his own studio. In 1999 he concretized its plans to create a form of cumbia, which should be the voice of slum dwellers Argentina. He built around the singer Daniel Lescano, the band on which new paths went in text and sound: The text negotiated by the lives of slum kids, drug use, crime and sex, and the music integrated elements of techno and trance in traditional cumbia dance.[3]
Flor de Piedra was commercially very successful, so Lescano 2000 another project tackled: the band Damas Gratis, where he was also active as a singer except as a producer. Also this band that the cumbia villera sound revolutionized again was very successful commercially and has won several music awards including the Premios Gardel.[4][5][6]
In 2001, Pablo Lescano two other bands as a producer under contract: Jimmy y su Combo Negro, a parody of the traditional Colombian cumbia, and Amar y Yo that have popped up mainly with sexist lyrics by himself.[7][8]
Discography[]
Amar Azul[]
- Dime tú" (1996)
- "Cumbia Nena" (1997)
- "Gracias a vos" (1999)
- Amaremix (Remix-Album, 1999)
Flor de Piedra[]
- La vanda mas loca (1999)
- Más duros que nunca (2000)
Damas Gratis[]
- Para los Píbes (2000)
- En vivo... hasta las manos (Livealbum, 2000)
- Operación Damas Gratis (2001)
- 100 % Negro Cumbiero (Livealbum, 2003)
- "En vivo 2004" (Livealbum, 2004)
- "Sin Remedio" (2005)
- "Sólo para entendidos" (2007)
- "La gota que rebalsó el vaso" (2008)
- "10 Años de Oro" (Livealbum, 2009)
- "Esquivando el éxito" (2011)
- "Somos nosotros los buenos" (2016)
Dany y la Roka[]
- One (2001)
Amar y Yo[]
- Cumbia Gurisa Baila Petisa (2001)
Jimmy y su Combo Negro[]
- Homenaje a Colombia (2001)
Collaborations[]
- La Luz del Ritmo - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs (2008)
- On the Rock - Andrés Calamaro (2010)
References[]
- ^ "Pablo Lescano: el mesías de la cumbia". March 15, 2013. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
- ^ El ritmo de la villa Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved February 12, 2016
- ^ Biografía de Pablo Lescano Retrieved February 2016
- ^ Pablo Lescano, el rey de la jungla Retrieved February 12, 2016
- ^ Premios Gardel 2012: todos los ganadores, La Voz del Interior, Retrieved February 12, 2016
- ^ La cumbia combativa encandila a los bonaerenses Retrieved February 12, 2016
- ^ "Es jodido estar en mi lugar". Entrevista con Pablo Lescano, líder de Damas Gratis Retrieved February 12, 2016
- ^ El sonido tropical que pasó de las bailantas a las discotecas Retrieved February 12, 2016
External links[]
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Argentine composers
- Argentine male singers
- Argentine keyboardists
- Argentine people of Guaraní descent
- Cumbia musicians
- Musicians from Buenos Aires
- 21st-century Argentine singers
- 21st-century male singers