El Greco (7)

Real name: Carlos Alberto Burlet. Profile: His original name is Carlos Alberto Burlet. Born on August 20, 1946, proudly in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina; in a town called San Pedro, 170 km from the federal capital. His favorite team is IDEPENDIENT which is very fanatic. Carlos Alberto tells us that before he started talking, he began to sing, because his father, to make him sleep, sang Luna, Lunera. He remembers with a smile that at the age of 7 or 8 he could not go out to the street to send an errand to his mother, because he always delayed, because at the corner pizzeria they invited him to sing and paid him pizza. As she was late, her mother left worried to look for him. Proudly he says that his father Carlos and his mother Maruca, supported him as a child in singing and took him to whatever radio program there was, to see his idols. Thus he grew up and at the age of 13 he formed his first group with friends from the neighborhood: "Los Búhos", inspired by the Batles, where he was the singer. They played on birthdays, parties, assaults and camping in nearby areas. At 2 years he separates from the band, since the director of the group "Los Comandantes" sees him in a rehearsal and hires him to sing with them; It stays almost a year. Rudy Machado tempts him to be the singer of his orchestra, he accepts and they go on tour throughout the country. A year is hired by "The Colombian Piper", in full success must leave the tour because he has to do military service, he has 2 years of navy, but only a year ago, thanks to a hepatitis that had him convalescent and sympathy that he had his boss let him out on weekends to act. At the end of the military service, he seriously thinks about dedicating himself to singing as a soloist. Record your savings a mockup of 2 tracks. He presents it to the EMI company, and 24 hours he was signing his first contract. He decides to change his image: he leaves his beard and mustache, and because of his resemblance to the Spanish painter, the company nicknamed him "EL GRECO". Thus was born the first balladist of that time, of a different appearance, with a voice and an interpretive force, managing to place himself first in the rankings of Latin America and supporting the manly voice of America. It was the end of the 60s and recorded the song "Raise your cup, toast for goodbye", being a total success in sales and its final consecration, he obtained it when he goes first in favor of the public, but second in the vote, in El Tercer Festival Buenos Aires de la Canción, year 68, with the theme "The ship of oblivion". The transmission goes via satellite for all America. It stands out for its voice, its strength and its great personality. Thus begins a race without stopping, his first tour, year 71, begins nothing more and nothing less than performing in El CARNAGGIE HALL from New York. The whole United States, America and Europe, are followed by successes such as: "I will make a world for you", "Open your arms", "Because I love you so much", "An afternoon of rain", "Love me a moment please", etc. . Year 73. Films the movie "I was born on the riverbank", together with Susana Gimenez, Arturo Puig, Ricardo Darin and others. Where the main theme and the songs are his own. Produces the songs for the vedette, Ethel Rojo in the movie "The Night is Moving." The American director Charly Gray, who comes to mount the musical work "" Jesus Christ Superstar "to Buenos Aires sees him in a bar next to the channel 9 and tells Alejandro Romay, owner of that channel and with whom Greco had exclusivity for several years, that I wanted him to play the role of Judas, because he gives just the profile he needs for that work.The work is a success, but unfortunately some opposition groups to the version of the work put a bomb on the theater Alejandro Romay The theater's owner decides to raise it, followed by several photonovelas, for the ANAHI magazine, together with first actresses, directed by Rolo Puente, and also starred in photonovelas in Ecuador, signing exclusive with the director of channel 9, Alejandro Romay, for several more years. He won his first 9 Gold. And he continues until the end of the 70s, when he changed the music in the 80s, he makes a break in his career. He lives a few years in the United States and is dedicated to record productions, sounding his works are recorded by national and international artists. Beginning of the 90s, it makes the last production of the New Parchis, produces groups of cumbia and salsa. In the late 90s thanks to a success like "La cumbia del garrote", which explodes in Mexico, the United States and the rest of the world, director Alejandro Gonzales of the film "Amores Perros" and Gustavo Santaolalla are interested and ask for his authorization for the work to include it in the movie. Sony Music of Mexico hires him and is based there for 7 years, producing for Mexican artists and also for those based abroad. At the beginning of 2000, a businessman interested in the music of remembrance, summons artists from the 60s and 70s, to tour p