On January 17, 1949, Carlos Alberto Solari was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos province: Indian. The most popular and probably the most influential artist in Argentina.
Indio Solari turns 74, of which he spent more than fifty related to music. His songs are hymns for several generations, and many of his phrases remain forever on fur, t-shirts, and walls across the country.
The first interview that Indio gave as singer of the Redonditos de Ricota was in 1984, when Gulp!, the band’s first album, had not yet been released. It was a conversation with the journalist Tom Lupo on his program The Yellow Submarine.
In 1985, El Indio gave the first recorded television interview (and also the last). It was for the Buenos Aires program Subterráqueos, which was broadcast on ATC, and was filmed in the mythical Stud Free Pub, where Los Redondos frequently played.
It must be said that El Indio and Los Redondos were always artists who avoided visibility in the media. They developed their career outside of traditional broadcasting. However, in 1997, when the municipality of Olavarría unilaterally suspended the band’s concerts, the musicians decided to give a historic press conference.
In the year 2000, Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota played at the River Plate stadium, in two massive shows. In 2001 the last concert of the Redondos was held, and they did not get together again. Three journalists did the last interview with the band as such and reflected the experience in a book called La última noche de Patricio Rey.
Once the Redondos broke up, Indio Solari launched a solo career that continues to this day. Also, over the years, he began to open up more to making public statements, with radio appearances, in books and documentaries. In this sense, in 2017 the film Tsunami: an ocean of people was released, which included a long interview with Mario Pergolini.
In recent years, Indio Solari devoted himself to writing a book of memoirs, Memories that lie a little, which he did together with the journalist and writer Marcelo Figueras. There were hours and hours of conversations that resulted in a book of almost 900 pages.
Since his concert in Olavarría in 2017, Indio Solari has not performed live again, afflicted with Parkinson’s disease, which prevents him from doing concerts. His band, The Air Conditioning Fundamentalists, is still playing.
