Charly Alberti
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| Charly Alberti | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 27, 1963 |
| Origin | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Genre(s) | Rock, Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Drummer |
| Instrument(s) | Drums |
| Years active | 1982 – 1997 Soda Stereo. 2005 – present MOLE |
Carlos Alberto Ficicchia Gigliotti (b. March 27, 1963), known by his stage name Charly Alberti, is an Argentine musician, better recognized as the drummer of the rock band Soda Stereo. He's the oldest son of Dolly Gigliotti and Argentine jazz drummer Tito Alberti.
He wanted to be an airpilot, but he couldn't make it because of his daltonism. Unlike his friends, he was never attracted by soccer and he preferred waterpolo and hockey instead, which he used to practice on River Plate Club, a few blocks away from his home. He started to practice drums driven by his father Tito Alberti. By 1981, Charly met the two guys who'll become his bandmates for 15 years: Gustavo Cerati and Hector "Zeta" Bosio, together they formed Soda Stereo, one of the most prominent and influent Argentine rock bands of the last two decades, and the most important in Latin America.
Soda Stereo recorded their first album by 1983, and reached fame by 1985 with its second album "Nada Personal" (Nothing personal), which became number 1 in charts in such countries as Argentine, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. By 1987, Charly Alberti met Remo Belli, the CEO of Remo Drumms, who decided to sponsor him as one of his top 5 drummers in the world; this relationship became not only professional but personal as well. Also, in 1987, Soda Stereo made a tour for Latin America that took them to Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and of course, Argentine. There were 57 concerts in 41 cities and 300.000 people saw the band.
By 1987, Alberti was named by several music experts as one of the most prominent drummers in Argentine and Latin America. Then, in 1995 he was named the best Argentine drummer of that year by the AAM (Asociación Argentina de Música - Argentine Music Asociation)
Soda Stereo then recorded "Signos" (Signs -1986), "Doble Vida" (Double life -1988), "Canción Animal" (Animal Song- 1990), "Dynamo" (1992) and "Sueño Stereo" (Stereo Dream-1995). In 1995, during an impasse of Soda Stereo that lasted 2 years, Alberti decided to make an album with his then girlfriend, Argentine supermodel Deborah del Corral; the project was named PLUM and edited an album that was released only in Argentine. By 1997, Soda Stereo got back together only to do a farewell mini tour that ended on Sep. 20th 1997 in Argentine.
In 2007, 10 years after their last concert, Soda Stereo reunited for a tour that started on Oct.19th and finished on Dec. 21th. The tour was called "Me verás volver" (You'll see me coming back) and took them to Mexico, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, USA, Argentine and Venezuela. In total, they made 22 concerts and sold out in every location they went. Soda Stereo made 6 gigs in the Monumental Stadium of River Plate(Argentine) and broke the record that was held by The Rolling Stones in that country with 5 sold out gigs in the same place. Each night they called around 60.000 people. After the tour, Gustavo Cerati, Zeta Bosio and Charly Alberti, came back to their solo carers.
[edit] Life after Soda Stereo
In 1996, Charly Alberti founded CybeRelations, a company dedicated to promote Apple Macintosh in Argentine. By 1997, Charly decided to expand the company's objectives and started to developing applications for multimedia and Internet, mainly for the hispanic market. By the end of that year, is named AppleMaster, the only Latin American who accomplished that.
By 1998, Charly created the i-time, which was accepted and used as the new standard of time on the Internet. By the end of that year, he launched URL Magazine and URL Records, both projects dedicated to promote electronic music in Latin countries. In 1999, Cybrel launched yeyeye.com, a web site dedicated to promote music in Latin America. In July 2001, Charly received an invitation of the Spanish Crown to talk in a conference about the importance of the Spanish language on the Internet and technology in general.
In 2003 Charly Alberti received an invitation from MTV Latin America to participate in a special performance for the Second Edition of the MTV Latin American Video Awards. The idea was putting together an "All Star band" of Latin American musicians that'll be the biggest surprise of the evening. This experience woke up in Charly the desire to go back into music. After that, he returned to Argentine and by 2005, founded along with his brother Andrés, a new rock band: MOLE. The band members are: Charly Alberti (drums), Andrés Alberti (lead guitars), Sergio Bufi (Singer and 2nd guitar) and Ezequial Dasso (Chorus and Bass). The first album was released only in Argentine in April 2007 and was called simply MOLE; is expected to be released all over Latin America sometime in 2008. On March 26th 2008, MOLE won in the category of Best Album by a New Rock Band in the Gardel Awards (the Argentine Grammys).
[edit] Personal Life
He's been boyfriend of several famous Argentine women. His longest relationship was with Argentine Supermodel, Deborah del Corral; they were engaged but never got married. After their break up, Deborah began a relationship with Charly's ex band mate, Gustavo Cerati.
He was also engaged with model, journalist and tv personality, Úrsula Vargues, but ended up in 2006. Recently, he's been seen with Argentine ex tennis player, Mariana Díaz.
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