Pedro Aznar

Pedro Aznar

Birth : 1959-08-23, Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

History

Pedro Aznar (born 23 July 1959) is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has a musical experience in jazz, Argentine folk and rock music and has a successful career as a solo artist. He is well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius. Is a multi-instrumentalist and the author of several books of poetry published in Argentina. He plays an important part in Argentine rock, where in the mid-1970s, he had various appearances with groups like Madre Atómica, ALAS and Pastoral. He became one of four members of Serú Girán in 1978, one of the most musically influential bands that dominated Argentina's rock circuit for the next four years. In 1982 he accepted an invitation from Pat Metheny to join The Pat Metheny Group as a vocalist, with whom he recorded three Grammy Award-winning albums.

Profile

Pedro Aznar

Movies

My Tender Matador
Original Music Composer
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
30 Years of Argentine Rock
Self
Aided by archival footage and interviews with its key figures, this documentary delves into the history of Argentine rock music from its origins up to the mid-1990s.
García+Aznar+Lebón: Teatro Colón
Argentina
Argentina continues Saura’s lyrical exploration of the essence, talent and patrimony of popular dance and song in both fiction and documentary
Un Canto Para No Olvidar
Self
Pedro Aznar Mil noches y un instante
Himself
Puentes Amarillos
Himself
Puentes Amarillos: Aznar Plays the Music of Spinetta is the 7th live album of Argentinean musician Pedro Aznar, recorded on a free concert in Plaza Italia, Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 29, 2012 with over 50,000 people as a tribute to Luis Alberto Spinetta, who passed on February 8, 2012. Aznar covered Spinetta's career in 26 songs, interpreting both, songs from his former bands as well as a soloist, and a joint composition (Alas de la Mañana), and a previously unreleased song (Lenny Blues).
Don't Look Down
Music
A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.
Pedro Aznar: Quebrado Vivo
Self
Pedro Aznar's Concert with songs from his record Quebrado. Recorded live at the Teatro Coliseo, Buenos Aires. August 15, 2008.
Accomplices
Sound
Julio and El Polaco, in distant years, were inseparable friends in their hometown, near Necochea. The life of the first was governed by obedience to his mother, the despotism of his uncle and a style of honesty. El Polaco, on the other hand, was closer to marginalization and violence. Julio, turned into a businessman, takes root in the United States. The Pole continued his course in the place of those sometimes very cruel antics.
El mundo contra mí
Music
Peperina
Pedro Aznar
Semi documentary film that mixes the recital given by Serú Giran at the River Plate stadium at the end of 1992 with the story of a fan of the group in which Charly García was inspired to write the song Peperina.
Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going
Music
A lonely film projectionist through a series of odd events, discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries.
El camino de los sueños
Music
Ignacio Silva returns to his hometown, a small port in southern Argentina. There he reunites with his memories and with a friend, and meets three women who lead him to see life differently.
Pat Metheny Group - More Travels
Himself
Recorded during a 1992/3 world tour.
Last Images of the Shipwreck
Music
Roberto is an insurance salesman who dreams of writing his own novel. When he meets Estela, a young woman about to commit suicide, it serves him as material to make this work.
Man Facing Southeast
Music
A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.