Seru Giran
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Serú Girán was an Argentinian rock
Rock music
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 supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....

. From 1978 the group consisted of Charly García
Charly García
Charly García is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in...

 (keyboards, synthesizers and vocals), David Lebón (guitars and vocals), Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar is an Argentine musician, with a lifetime of experience in jazz, Argentinian folk music, and rock and has had a successful career as a solo artist. He is very well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius...

 (Electric
Electric Bass
Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...

 and fretless bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 and vocals), and Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro was an Argentine rock drummer.Oscar Moro was born and raised in Rosario. Moro joined a childhood friend, Litto Nebbia, and three others in forming the pioneer Argentine rock and roll band Los Gatos, in 1966...

 (Drums
Drum kit
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 and percussion). It is considered one of the best in the history of 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...

, both musically, and conceptually and staging. Renowned for the virtuosity of its musicians sought.

Serú Girán won awards for Best Guitarist (Lebón), Best Keyboardist (García), Best Bassist (Aznar), Best Drummer (Moro), Best Composer (García), Best Live Band (in the years 1978, '79, '80 and '81), Show Revelation Group 1978, Best Singer (Lebón) in 1980 and '81, Best song in 1978 ("Seminare") and 1981 ("Peperina"), and Best Album in 1978 ("Serú Girán").

History

Serú Girán was born after the separation of the band La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros
La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros
La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros was a mid 1970s progressive and symphonic rock band from Argentina, with strong influences by Genesis, Yes, and Steely Dan. In their brief two-year lifespan, they didn't have enjoy much public acceptance...

 which Charly García
Charly García
Charly García is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in...

 had organized in its early post-Sui Generis
Sui Generis
Sui Generis is one of the most important rock bands in Argentine history, enjoying enormous success and popularity during the first half of the 1970s and a following that lasts to the present throughout South America...

. Along with David Lebón, Charly Garcia traveled to Búzios (Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

) in 1978, with the idea of writing material for a new album. On their return to Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Garcia met the young and prodigious bass player Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar is an Argentine musician, with a lifetime of experience in jazz, Argentinian folk music, and rock and has had a successful career as a solo artist. He is very well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius...

. They were then joined by Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro was an Argentine rock drummer.Oscar Moro was born and raised in Rosario. Moro joined a childhood friend, Litto Nebbia, and three others in forming the pioneer Argentine rock and roll band Los Gatos, in 1966...

, who had been drummer in La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros
La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros
La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros was a mid 1970s progressive and symphonic rock band from Argentina, with strong influences by Genesis, Yes, and Steely Dan. In their brief two-year lifespan, they didn't have enjoy much public acceptance...

 and formerly of the legendary group Los Gatos
Los Gatos (band)
Los Gatos were an Argentine rock group of the late 1960s, members of the founding trilogy of Spanish-language rock in Argentina.- History:The group got their start in 1967...

.

"Billy Bond and the Jets" was formed by Charly García
Charly García
Charly García is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in...

, Billy Bond
Billy Bond
Billy Bond is a character in the popular BBC television show Hustle. He is played by Ashley Walters.Billy Bond was the newest member of the Hustle crew. He joined in series 4 after Michael Stone departed the group...

, David Lebón, Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar is an Argentine musician, with a lifetime of experience in jazz, Argentinian folk music, and rock and has had a successful career as a solo artist. He is very well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius...

 and Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro was an Argentine rock drummer.Oscar Moro was born and raised in Rosario. Moro joined a childhood friend, Litto Nebbia, and three others in forming the pioneer Argentine rock and roll band Los Gatos, in 1966...

. They released a single disc with tracks like "Discoshock", "Toda la Gente", and "Loco, ¿No te sobra una moneda?". Finally Billy Bond disarms the project and the rest formed Serú Girán.

The beginnings were difficult: it was 1978 and the first album did not convince although it offered public anthems like Seminare and Eiti Leda. The presentation of the band was in a boat over the Riachuelo. What inspired García to this was the revolutionary band "Los Jóvenes de Ayer". In their debut, the quartet was joined by the orchestral collaborations of Daniel Goldberg, who recorded with 24 musicians in USA.

The official presentation of the debut album "Serú Girán" was held in Estadio Obras Sanitarias on November 3 in 1978 with a orchestra of 24 musicians (string section and wind) and closed circuit television. In the back of the stage, a giant screen showing addressing the musicians on stage. Lebón, Aznar and came dressed Moro all in white, while Charly chose a black mesh bag and slippers. The beginning of the recital, with the full orchestra playing the powerful Introducing the item Seru Giran, presaged an unforgettable night. It was not well. When they played the song Disco Shock-a satire of music Disk
Music disk
Music disk, or musicdisk, is a term used by the demoscene to describe a collection of songs made on a computer. They are essentially the computer equivalent of an album. A music disk is typically packaged in the form of a program with a custom user interface, so the listener does not need other...

, so in vogue at the time, the audience was taken aback because he thought it was serious. Amid a chorus of whistles, began Garcia ask the Blues lift, the subject had written with occasion of the departure of Sui Generis. The rest of the concert went to general indifference. People did not understand the message or not Serú was known to express it.

La grasa de las capitales

A year later, came La Grasa de las Capitales
La Grasa de las Capitales
La Grasa de las Capitales is the second album by the Argentine Rock band Serú Girán, released in 1979. Following the deeply criticized debut album Serú Girán the band went in search for a different sound, one that could be closer to the fans expectations...

 (meaning the large cities of the world) with a change in the theme score for the album: the songs are more direct instruments ring in a close without the addition of strings. 3 a.m.Fridayand Nightdogsare the highest peaks of genius denoting Seru Giran second release. 3 a.m.Fridaywould be censored for a time on the radio because it was considered a song that incited suicide. This album was the one that catapulted Seru Giran as one of the groups most popular of the time in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

.

The official release of "Fat of the capitals" held in great number of functions in September and October 1979 in Buenos Aires Auditorium (Ex - Kraft).

Early '80s: Bicicleta (album) and success

In 1980, saw the light Bicicleta
Bicicleta (album)
Bicicleta is the third studio album recorded by the Argentinian rock group Serú Girán, released in 1980. The album is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the groups finest efforts, and subsequently went on to be ranked by the Rolling Stone Magazine as the 68th best Argentinian...

 ("Bycicle"), an album that told with delicate and admirable accuracy the reality of a political era not easy under the dictatorship
National Reorganization Process
The National Reorganization Process was the name used by its leaders for the military government that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. In Argentina it is often known simply as la última junta militar or la última dictadura , because several of them existed throughout its history.The Argentine...

:Canción de alicia en el país y Encuentro con el diablo are the songs that best described that social reality. In Canción de Alicia en el país, Charly Garcia paints Argentina's reality through metaphors that the censors did not came to grasp. Nostalgiaalso contains Charly Garcia in songs like A los jóvenes de ayer and Mientras miro las nuevas olas.

Disk-name Bicicleta which originally had proposed Charly the group but rejected by the rest-was officially launched at the stage Works, 6 and 7 June 1980. In the stage was wheeled bicycle, rabbits and flowers, which drew public and media attention, being the first group had some sort of concern about the staging. Seru Giran had delegated scenic responsibility to Renata Schussheim, an old friend of Charly. From Bicycle Seru Giran began with his great shows.

A month later, in August 1980, were presented at the Monterrey Jazz Festival of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
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 (Brazil). In general, the Argentine going to the festival were more related to jazz or rock tango Serú proposed progressive.

That year the concert was divided: In the first part, presented Serú Girán, American guitarist Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...

 and George Duke
George Duke
George Duke is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music...

.

The success of the Argentine was such that the organizers would offered back to play in the second-major-with John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin (musician)
John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

, Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil. Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and...

 Egberto Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...

 and the group Weather Report
Weather Report
Weather Report was an American jazz-rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter...

. García remembers:

When McLaughlin was playing, people skated and threw airplanes paper. I want to die! McLaughlin If you did that, to us hatched. "

However, this prediction was wrong. The main reason favorable response lay in the variety of nuances in the songs, some, with a cadence that invites to dance.

In this festival, Aznar met Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius
John Francis Anthony Pastorius III , known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged as a virtuoso electric bass player....



On December 30, 1980, the supergroup provided in a historic La Rural free concert, by the state channel ATC, organizer of the series "Music prohibited for adults. " Seru Giran collected more than 60,000 people, was the Argentine first group that brought the crowds.

Peperina, "No llores por mí, Argentina (álbum)" and the end

Peperina was marked by the excellent and impeccable compositions such as Llorando en el espejo, Esperando Nacer, Cinema Verité and Peperina. The official presentation of the disc was held at Obras Sanitarias on 4, 5 and 6 September 1981. The album cover was designed by Clota Ponieman, with photos picked by him and Charly.

When Aznar decided to leave the band to study at Berklee, Serú organized a series of recitals to give him a farewell. Serú Girán's future was uncertain. At beginning of 1982, the disc recorded in these concerts, No Llores por Mí Argentina, was one of the best selling ones in that year. The homonymous title became almost an anthem, and other songs like En la Vereda del Sol, Cuanto tiempo más llevará and Eiti Leda made of this record an essential album.

Later this year, the confrontations of Garcia, Lebón and Moro (in particular the first two) on how to reeplace Aznar and the group's future made the band dissolve.

The return:Serú 92

Many years and solo work had to pass until Serú Girán was present again. García, Moro, Lebón and Aznar met to edit Serú' 92. With the return of Serú, presentations were made in Rosario Córdoba (in stage Chateau Carreras), Montevideo
Montevideo
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 (Centennial Stadium) and in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 with 2 performances on the stage of River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine sports club based in the Nuñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently competes in Nacional B, the second tier of Argentine football....

, the latter to about 160 thousand people in total. The return of Serú marked a record long ago unthinkable: a local band playing at River Plate Stadium.

The death of Oscar Moro

Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro was an Argentine rock drummer.Oscar Moro was born and raised in Rosario. Moro joined a childhood friend, Litto Nebbia, and three others in forming the pioneer Argentine rock and roll band Los Gatos, in 1966...

 died in July 2006, the victim of a stomach hemorrhage.

In late March and early April 2007 Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar is an Argentine musician, with a lifetime of experience in jazz, Argentinian folk music, and rock and has had a successful career as a solo artist. He is very well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius...

 and David Lebon met for a series of concerts in the theater ND Ateneo. In the fifth concert (Friday, April 6) appeared as a guest surprise Charly García
Charly García
Charly García is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in...

 to play Seminare.

On July 26, 2007, a year after the disappearance of Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro
Oscar Moro was an Argentine rock drummer.Oscar Moro was born and raised in Rosario. Moro joined a childhood friend, Litto Nebbia, and three others in forming the pioneer Argentine rock and roll band Los Gatos, in 1966...

, it concert gathered many rock stars, as a tribute, in which Charly García
Charly García
Charly García is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in...

 and Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar
Pedro Aznar is an Argentine musician, with a lifetime of experience in jazz, Argentinian folk music, and rock and has had a successful career as a solo artist. He is very well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius...

,blew apart and bleeding,Encuentro with the devil,While I watch the new waveandwaiting to be born.

On April 30, 2010, near midnight, David and Peter were guests on the latest in a series of recitals that Charles gave at Luna Park that year. They played "Seminare". The meeting was really surprising and a big emotional charge. Charly at the end of the issue, also asked for applause for Moro.

Studio albums

Year Disc Discography
1978 Serú Girán
Serú Girán (album)
Serú Girán is the debut album by the eponymous band, brainchild of Charly García , released in 1978 and recorded partly in Brazil and the United States....

Music Hall
1979 La Grasa de las Capitales
La Grasa de las Capitales
La Grasa de las Capitales is the second album by the Argentine Rock band Serú Girán, released in 1979. Following the deeply criticized debut album Serú Girán the band went in search for a different sound, one that could be closer to the fans expectations...

Music Hall
1980 Bicicleta
Bicicleta (album)
Bicicleta is the third studio album recorded by the Argentinian rock group Serú Girán, released in 1980. The album is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the groups finest efforts, and subsequently went on to be ranked by the Rolling Stone Magazine as the 68th best Argentinian...

SG Discos
1981 Peperina SG Discos
1992 Serú '92 Sony Music

Live albums

Año Disco
1981 Yo no quiero volverme tan loco Sony Music
1982 No llores por mí, Argentina SG Discos
1993 En vivo Sony Music

Recopilations

Año Disco
1995 Oro (Serú Giran)
1996 El álbum
2000 Viernes 3 a.m

Others

Year Disc Notes
1988 Reunión secreta en TMA improvisación en estudio de grabación (no oficial)

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