Roberto Pettinato
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Argentina
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musician
Musician
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, journalist
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and television presenter.
Pettinato's father, Roberto Sr., was a high-ranking corrections officer in the administration of Juan Perón
Juan Perón
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. When a coup deposed Perón in 1955, he was accused of being involved in political repression and was driven out of the country together with his family. Roberto Jr. has maintained that leaving his childhood home in the dark is his earliest memory.
Pettinato became involved in the Argentine rock
Argentine rock
Argentine rock , is composed or made by Argentine bands or artists, in the Spanish language. For nearly half a century it has been a major popular genre, and it is considered part of the popular music tradition of Argentina alongside Argentine Tango, and Argentine folk music.The moment when...
scene of the late 1970s mostly as a journalist with the Expreso Imaginario monthly magazine, which he directed from 1980 until its demise in 1982. In parallel, he was the on-and-off saxophonist for the 1980s band Sumo
Sumo (band)
Sumo was a 1980s Argentine alternative rock band, merging post-punk with reggae and ska. Headed by Italian-born Luca Prodan, it remained underground for most of its short activity, but was extremely influential in shaping contemporary Argentine rock. Sumo introduced British post-punk to the...
, led by Anglo-Italian Luca Prodan
Luca Prodan
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.
After Prodan's death and the band's dissolution, he started working in television
Television
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together with Gerardo Sofovich
Gerardo Sofovich
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, co-hosting La noche del Domingo in the early 1990s. Later on, he gained popularity by hosting Duro de acostar on Telefe
Telefe
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, a midnight talk show modeled after David Letterman
David Letterman
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's. In the mid-1990s, he attained cult status by co-hosting post-midnight sports and showbiz show Orsai (a deformation of the football
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term off-side) with Gonzalo Bonadeo on one of Argentina's many sports cable channels.
As an actor, he took part in Primicias, a television series produced by Pol-Ka
Pol-ka
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and broadcast by Canal 13
Canal 13 (Argentina)
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.
He also hosted TV programs Mira quien canta, Todos al diván, Petti en vivo (Canal 9)
Canal 9 (Argentina)
Canal 9 is an Argentine television network based in Buenos Aires. It is a general entertainment station which offers news, soap operas, talk shows, and movies.-History:...
, Un aplauso para el asador (Canal 13) and the ironic Indomables (América TV
Canal 2 (Argentina)
América 2 is a national channel of Argentina, from La Plata that also broadcasts from Buenos Aires' Palermo neighbourhood. It was launched on June 25, 1966 as Rivadavia Televisión/TeVeDos, and in April 1991 the name changed to America. The bulk of programming of this channel can be found between...
) and Duro de Domar.
In March, of 2009 he began Un Mundo Perfecto
Un Mundo Perfecto
Un mundo Perfecto is an Argentinean TV program hosted by comedian and musician Roberto Pettinato and distributed by América TV. The show features interviews with celebrities and members of the public, comedic monologues by the host and music performances. It premiered on March 16, 2009.- External...
, a late-night talk show
Late-night talk show
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on (América TV
Canal 2 (Argentina)
América 2 is a national channel of Argentina, from La Plata that also broadcasts from Buenos Aires' Palermo neighbourhood. It was launched on June 25, 1966 as Rivadavia Televisión/TeVeDos, and in April 1991 the name changed to America. The bulk of programming of this channel can be found between...
).
Following the unexpected ending of Indomables due to a conflict between the production company PPT and América TV, the production renamed and moved the program to Canal 13, where Pettinato (as of October 2006) hosts Duro de Domar.
He currently also directs the rock magazine Mano and hosts since 2004 a successful FM radio morning show called El Show de la Noticia.
He has released an album called: Free Jazz Musica Anticomercial, which is an album of free jazz, as Robert Pettinato & Now.