The Two Charlies

The seventies. Time of idealism, dreams, politically engaged young people. Time of disagreement. Time "hippies" who, to Argentina, came a decade later. The music, a hotbed of reference for these romantic youth. Among these heroes of staff, with beautiful melodies loudly denounced social injustice, included a long-haired young man named Charly skinny (although your ID says "Carlos Alberto") Garcia. Along with Nito Mestre, geared to a whole new generation not to comply with the sociopolitical reality. Charly emanated, in his letters, rebellion, in his voice, pure sweetness and its dreamy piano melodies flowing. He has composed songs that are among the most wonderful country rock, such as "Song for my death," "Confessions of winter" and Seru Giran already, "seminarians." In his song "Dinosaurs," cried the injustices of the dictatorship, in code, of course, to avoid censorship.

But that boy pacifist, creative, nonconformist changed. The drug it was becoming a man capricious, irrational, egotistical. Came the nineties. Decade of neoliberalism, a time where the material is stressed to the limit. Who embodied those values ​​was the former president Carlos Menem. The hair and little glasses teenager would never have hit it off with him. But the mustache man befriended bicolor with Rioja. He began to indulge his eccentricities, and the scandal became his obsession, displacing their old values. His voice and songwriting creativity are no longer what they once were. Neither are his convictions. Charly today's idol and myth, and should be the twentysomething who sang "mama freedom, always carried within the heart ...". But only a myth, memory and the beautiful songs that have been Charly. Journalist for Giselle YoteVoto.com Odiz