¨El Flaco¨ Spinetta (January 23, 1950 – February 8, 2012

Luis Alberto Spinetta, (Buenos Aires, 23 de enero de 1950 -  8 de febrero de 2012 ) también conocido como El Flaco, fue un cantante, guitarrista, poeta y compositor argentino de rock, considerado como uno de los más importantes de su país. La gran complejidad de sus obras, tanto en lo instrumental, como en lo lírico y poético, le valió el reconocimiento en Latinoamérica y el resto del mundo.

En sus letras hay influencia de escritores, poetas, artistas y pensadores como Rimbaud, Vincent Van Gogh, Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, Carlos Castaneda y Artaud, del cual incluso lleva su nombre uno de sus discos.

Es considerado uno de los padres del rock argentino junto con Lito Nebbia, Javier Martínez, Moris, Pappo, y Tanguito entre otros. 




Luis Alberto Spinetta, also known as El Flaco Spinetta, was an Argentine musician. He was one of the most influential rock musicians of South America, and together with Charly García is considered the father of Argentine rock. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano. As a kid he listened to all kinds of music: folklore and tango, and a little bit later, rock. In 1967, in the midst of a repressive political climate, he formed a band called Almendra with school mates.

Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Argentina and especially Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions; the new generation, the sons of the middle class, were immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta was part and later an exponent of that blossoming and rebellious youth that would express itself both through the arms and the arts. Spinetta devoted fully to the latter path, although he briefly became involved with left-wing political movements.

In his lyrics, there are influences of writers, poets and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Carlos Castaneda and Antonin Artaud, which has his name in the album Artaud.