Piero<\/a>, the artist who defined a generation of Latin American songwriting with classics like \u201cMi Viejo\u201d and \u201cSoy Pan, Soy Paz, Soy M\u00e1s,\u201d died on Oct. 7 at Hospital Italiano in Buenos Aires. He was 81.<\/p>\n\n\tHis family confirmed the news via their Instagram account: \u201cIt is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our beloved Piero at the age of 81. His voice, his songs, and his message of peace will remain with us forever. His light will continue to shine in every corner where his music is heard. His family and friends thank you for your condolences. Farewell, dear Piero,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n
\n\tPiero Antonio Franco De Benedictis was born in Gallipoli, Apulia, Italy, in 1945. His family emigrated to Argentina when he was three. By the early 1970s, Piero was already a celebrity. He co-starred in the film El profesor patag\u00f3nico<\/em> alongside Luis Sandrini, directed by Fernando Ayala.<\/p>\n\n\tAs he released albums \u2014 especially the trilogy Pedro Nadie<\/em> (1970), Coplas de mi pa\u00eds<\/em> (1972), and Para el pueblo lo que es del pueblo<\/em> (1974) \u2014 he became a political figure. A committed singer-songwriter who spoke out on social issues, he found an inseparable songwriting partner in Jos\u00e9 Tcherkasky, the journalist and poet.<\/p>\n\n\tAssociated with protest songs, Piero and Tcherkasky painted social portraits and crafted short stories with universal appeal, often accompanied by the great Jorge L\u00f3pez Ruiz orchestrations. Songs such as \u201cValdemar, El Brasilero\u201d and \u201cLos Americanos,\u201d featuring the Cuarteto Zupay, were part of that seminal repertoire that influenced, for example, the Panamanian salsa singer Rub\u00e9n Blades.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn Para el pueblo lo que es del pueblo<\/em>, from 1974, he collaborated with Marilina Ross (\u201cCanci\u00f3n de cuna para despertar un hijo\u201d), depicted the hardships of urban life (\u201cAs\u00ed es la ciudad\u201d), and covered \u201cTe recuerdo, Amanda\u201d by the Chilean V\u00edctor Jara,who was assassinated by Augusto Pinochet\u2019s dictatorship in Chile in September of the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tFollowing the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat<\/em> of March 24, he went into exile in 1976 and lived in Italy and Spain, where he settled near Madrid, and worked on a farm. He maintained strong ties to Colombia. His children\u2019s album, Sinfon\u00eda inconclusa en la mar<\/em> (1975), is an iconic album for several generations of Colombians.<\/p>\n\n\tIn 1981, with the end of the civil-military dictatorship on the near horizon, Piero planned his return to Argentina, stopping in Uruguay first. Alongside musicians he\u2019d met during his exile in Spain \u2014 including guitarists Amadeo \u00c1lvarez and Daniel Manzini \u2014 he began to shape his new band, Prema. Over the next five years, Prema\u2019s lineup included, among others, pianist Babu Cervi\u00f1o (a member of Tantor), drummer Juan Carlos \u201cEl Negro\u201d Tord\u00f3 (who had played in Ra\u00edces with Uruguayan Beto Satragni and a very young Andr\u00e9s Calamaro), Alejandro Lerner, Carlos Riganti, Gustavo Gregorio, Rub\u00e9n \u201cEl Mono\u201d Izaurralde, Morci Requena, and Luis Gurevich.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tHe reached his peak of popularity during those years. He performed in several plays, took part in B.A. Rock, formed a deep bond with Mercedes Sosa, participating in the legendary concerts at the \u00d3pera Theater. These popularized her cry of gratitude \u2014 \u201c\u00a1Gracias, Piero!<\/em>\u201d He took part in the historic concerts by Silvio Rodr\u00edguez and Pablo Milan\u00e9s in Buenos Aires. In the mid-1980s, he moved away from protest music. He founded an organic farm in Campana alongside teenagers from vulnerable families. From then on, during the mid-1990s, he built a network of 200 organic farms, and his social activism went hand in hand with an artistic career that included a collaborative album with Pablo Milan\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\tMusic became a family legacy. His son Juan led the band Mulan and currently plays guitar for the Uruguayan singer Ana Prada. In 2022, his daughter Fiorel released an EP featuring Piero himself, with covers of classic Argentine folk songs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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