Pablo Lescano (

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, December 8, 1977) is an Argentine singer, composer, keyboardist, and leader of ''

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'' group

Damas Gratis Damas Gratis (Spanish for "Ladies' Night", literally "Ladies for Free") is an Argentine cumbia villera band started by Pablo Lescano in 2000. In 2012, their album ''Esquivando el éxito'' won a Premios Gardel award for the best album by a "tr ...

from 2000. He is considered by many as the founder of the Cumbia villera sub-genre.

Biography

Born in 1977 in ''Villa La Esperanza'' in San Isidro, a poor suburb of Buenos Aires, Pablo Lescano made his first musical experience at the age of 13 years on a stolen -angeblich-

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. As a youth he was active in several local cumbia bands until his 1997 (19) the commercial breakthrough in the band ''Amar Azul'' succeeded both as a

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, on the other hand as a composer of many titles of the band. With the gained royalties to the sellers of Amar Azul; Pablo Lescano set about building his own studio. In 1999 he concretized its plans to create a form of

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, which should be the

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of slum dwellers Argentina. He built around the singer Daniel Lescano, the band

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on which new paths went in text and sound: The text negotiated by the lives of slum kids, drug use,

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and

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, and the music integrated elements of techno and trance in traditional cumbia dance. Flor de Piedra was commercially very successful, so Lescano 2000 another project tackled: the band

, where he was also active as a singer except as a producer. Also this band that the ''cumbia villera'' sound revolutionized again was very successful commercially and has won several music awards including the

Premios Gardel The Premios Gardel a la Música (originally called Premios Carlos Gardel), or just Premios Gardel (in English, the Gardel Awards), is an award presented by the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers (CAPIF) to recognize the best ...

. In 2001, Pablo Lescano two other bands as a producer under contract: ''Jimmy y su Combo Negro'', a parody of the traditional Colombian cumbia, and ''Amar y Yo'' that have popped up mainly with sexist lyrics by

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Discography

Amar Azul

*''Dime tú" (1996) *"Cumbia Nena" (1997) *"Gracias a vos" (1999) *''Amaremix'' (Remix-Album, 1999)

Flor de Piedra

*''La vanda mas loca'' (1999) *''Más duros que nunca'' (2000)

Damas Gratis

*''Para los Píbes'' (2000) *''En vivo... hasta las manos'' (Livealbum, 2000) *''Operación Damas Gratis'' (2001) *''100 % Negro Cumbiero'' (Livealbum, 2003) *"En vivo 2004" (Livealbum, 2004) *"Sin Remedio" (2005) *"Sólo para entendidos" (2007) *"La gota que rebalsó el vaso" (2008) *"10 Años de Oro" (Livealbum, 2009) *"Esquivando el éxito" (2011) *"Somos nosotros los buenos" (2016)

Dany y la Roka

*''One'' (2001)

Amar y Yo

*''Cumbia Gurisa Baila Petisa'' (2001)

Jimmy y su Combo Negro

*''Homenaje a Colombia'' (2001)

Collaborations

*'' La Luz del Ritmo'' -

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(2008) *'' On the Rock'' -

Andrés Calamaro Andrés Calamaro (Andrés Calamaro Massel, August 22, 1961) is an Argentine musician, composer and Latin Grammy winner. He is considered one of the greatest and most influential rock artists in Spanish. He is also one of the most complete artist ...

(2010)

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lescano, Pablo 1977 births Living people Argentine composers 20th-century Argentine male singers Argentine keyboardists Argentine people of Paraguayan descent Cumbia musicians Musicians from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine male singers