Soledad Pastorutti

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Soledad in concert at the "Salón Blanco" of the Casa Rosada.

Soledad Pastorutti "La Sole" (born October 12, 1980 in Arequito, Santa Fe) is an Argentine folklore singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and beginning of the 21st.

[edit] Career

César Isella took her under his tutelage in 1996, only 15 years old, to participate of the Cosquín folklore festival. Her presentation had an important impact, that gave her a contract with Sony Music Argentina to record and release her first album, Poncho al Viento, that very same year.

In 1997 she edited her second disc, La Sole, which she also presented in several concerts throughout the country, including 10 concerts in Buenos Aires' Teatro Gran Rex.

In 1998 her success kept growing, duplicating the number of concerts at the Teatro Gran Rex, and accompanied the Argentina national football team for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. In Madrid, Spain, she received a distinction from Sony International for reaching a million units sold of her first two works.

Upon her return, Sony Music Argentina recognised her as the best seller artist of the company in all the musical genres, and edited her third album A mi gente, recorded live during her concerts.

In 1999 she became the protagonist of the movie Edad del Sol (anagram of her name), and recorded her forth album Yo sí Quiero a mi país this time in studios in Miami under the production of Cuban Emilio Estefan. That album opened doors to other markets in, among others, Bolivia,Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Mexico, United States and Spainin which she would also have concerts.

In 2000 she returned, after 2 years, to Buenos Aires for 3 concerts at the Luna Park. In August she participated in the Martigues Folklore Festival where she was widely praised. Back in Argentina she started recording her fifth album, released in October of that year. Before the release, La Sole performed at the Barbican Centre of London during a festival of Argentine cinema and music. She also participated of the 2000 International Festival of Viña del Mar.

Her sixth album was recorded in 2001, produced by Alejandro Lerner and Fernando Isella, with a renovated style. She had again concerts at the Gran Rex, and received the "Silver Torch" award at the Viña del Mar Festival.

Soledad debuted on TV in the telenovela Rincón de Luz in 2003.