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''Canción Animal'' ( Spanish for ''Animal Song'') is the fifth album released by the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, released on September 17, 1990 (see
1990 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990. This year was the peak of Compact Cassette, cassette sales in the United States, with sales declining year on year since then. Specific locations *1990 in British mu ...
). 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", "Té para tres" and others. It is considered one of the best and most influential albums in the history of Latin American rock music. The anthemic status of the album, and specifically " De Música Ligera", is perhaps due to the band's ability to tap into a feeling experienced by almost every Spanish-speaking nation of going from dictatorship (and thus censorship) to freedom at some point during the 20th century. 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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In 2007, the Argentine edition of ''
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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. In 2024, it was ranked in 21st position on the “ Los 600 de Latinoamérica” list compiled by a collective of music journalists from several countries of the Americas, curating the top 600 Latin American albums from 1920-2022.Los 600 de Latinoamérica
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Personnel

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Gustavo Cerati Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clarke (11 August 1959 – 4 September 2014) was an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter who gained international recognition for being the leader, vocalist, composer, and guitarist of the rock band Soda Stereo. He is ...
Lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...
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guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
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bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...
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backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...
, Chapman Stick on "Canción Animal" * Charly Alberti
drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...
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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...
;Additional personnel * Alfredo Lois – art direction * Mariano Lopez – engineer / mixing * Pedro Aznar – vocal arrangement * Daniel Melero - Keyboards and arrangements * Tweety González - Keyboards * Andrea Álvarez - Percussion * Peter Baleani – production coordination * Roger Hughes – assistant engineer * Vanessa Eckstem - assistant * Adrian Taverna - Band assistant * Caito Lorenzo & Alfredo Lois - Photography


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References

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