''Canción Animal'' ( Spanish for ''Animal Song'') is the fifth album released by the Argentine

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Soda Stereo Soda Stereo is an Argentine rock band formed in Buenos Aires in 1982 by Gustavo Cerati (lead vocals, guitar), Héctor "Zeta" Bosio (bass) and Carlos Alberto Ficicchia "Charly Alberti" (drums). As the first Hispanic group to achieve mainstream ...

, released in September 1990 (see

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). Many of the songs on the album are among the band's most popular, such as one of their biggest hits " De Música Ligera", the last song played in Soda Stereo's last concert in 1997, "Hombre al agua", "Un Millón de Años Luz", "Te para tres" and others. It is considered one of the best and most influential albums in the history of Latin American rock music. Many regard it as the best album to ever come out of South America.Un viaje por los 250 discos del rock Iberoamericano
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'' ranked it 9 on its list of " The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock". The album sold 500,000 copies in Argentina alone.

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Gustavo Cerati Gustavo Adrián Cerati (11 August 1959 – 4 September 2014) was an Argentine singer-songwriter, composer and producer, considered one of the most important and influential figures of Ibero-American rock. Cerati along with his band Soda Stereo, ...

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Zeta Bosio Héctor Juan Pedro Bosio Bertolotti (born 1 October 1958) better known by his stage name Zeta Bosio, is an Argentine rock music, rock musician, record producer and disc jockey (DJ), better known as the bassist of the Argentine rock band Soda Ste ...

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Charly Alberti Carlos Alberto Ficicchia Gigliotti (born March 27, 1963), known by his stage name Charly Alberti, is an Argentine rock musician, best known as the drummer of the influential Argentine rock band Soda Stereo. Because of this, he is considered one ...

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;Additional personnel * Alfredo Lois – art direction * Mariano Lopez – engineer / mixing * Pedro Aznar – vocal arrangement *

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Tweety González Fabián Andrés González Amado (born 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), known by his stage name Tweety González, is an Argentine musician and record producer. González is mostly known for playing the keyboard for Argentine rock band Soda Stere ...

- Keyboards * Andrea Álvarez - Percussion * Peter Baleani – production coordination * Roger Hughes – assistant engineer * Vanessa Eckstem - assistant * Adrian Taverna - Band assistant * Caito Lorenzo & Alfredo Lois - Photography

External links

LyricsCoveralia - Cancion Animal (album)Rate your music - Cancion animal by Soda Stereo

References

Soda Stereo albums 1990 albums Spanish-language albums Sony Music Argentina albums {{1990s-pop-rock-album-stub