Benito Cerati

Benito Cerati Amenábar ( Santiago de Chile , 26 of November of 1993 ) is a singer , musician and composer Chilean - Argentine . Son of Gustavo Cerati and Cecilia Amenábar .

Early years

He was born on 26 of November of 1993 in Las Condes , ¹ Santiago de Chile . During his gestation, his father had distanced himself from his band and was composing the material for his first solo album Love Yellow , inspired by this new stage of his life. The song ” I take you to take me ” and that was the first single of this album, was inspired by the pregnancy of Cecilia, ² at the end of the song you hear Benito’s heartbeat and in the video clip of that theme appeared inside the belly Of his mother, who showed an advanced state of pregnancy. ³ In 1995, during a concert of Soda Stereo in the Teatro Monumental in Chile , Benito came on stage with the fervor of the audience chanted his name appeared. ⁴ After the birth of her sister Lisa (also born in Santiago), he and his family moved to the sector Vicente López , Buenos Aires , Argentina , ^{in May} where he currently resides, so has dual nationality. ^{6 7 8}

From a very early age Benito followed in the footsteps of his father, who was astonished to see that his son was overcoming it, “in three hours he wrote things that took me a long time,” he said. ³ Cecilia said that she learned playing with a Casio keyboard. ⁶ He recorded several homemade discs that were heard in his family, -the first one was called Rocket and recorded it at the age of five; ^In addition, during his childhood, as a hobby, he wrote screenplays, stories and studied guitar with Fabio Rey (member of Los Brujos ). ⁹ Despite his great talent, his parents never exposed him and preferred to take care of his childhood, following the advice given by Charly Garcia , “once he was fifteen years old, he could be released,” Cecilia said. ^{10 11} Benito participated in the compositions of some of his father’s songs in Here We Go (in the song ” Goodbye “) ^{9 12} and Natural Force (“Natural Force”, “Disaster”, ” Rapture ” and “Salt”). ¹³

Musical career

In 2008, Benito formed the Entre-Paréntesis band together with Nicolás López Mullmayer and Marcos Fantozi, being the vocalist and guitarist of the group, which officially debuted at a hair salon in Palermo neighborhood in 2009, with his progenitor as a sound assistant. ¹⁴ The group performed versions of bands like Oasis or Coldplay ; His first band, as such, was just an experiment, he said. ⁷ That same year he recorded a tribute album to Michael Jackson with the collaboration of his parents and his sister after the death of the king of pop . ^{15 14} In June 2011 he made his solo debut as support for the group Pacific! - one of his father’s favorite bands - ¹⁴ at the Niceto club in Buenos Aires , where he was accompanied by Leandro Fresco and Anita Alvarez de Toledo (keyboardist and chorus player respectively from his father’s band) Sol Fernández de Enero Sera Mio. The presence of Cecilia, members of his family, and Ale Sergi (vocalist Miranda! ). ^eleven

In 2012, Benito formed his musical project ” Blank Tiger “, name that was taken from one of the characters of David Bowie narrating in his short stories from the album Outside . ¹⁶ They made their debut in May, ¹⁷ and later played in various parts of Argentina and Chile; ¹⁸ also participated in the first album of January will be mine, project of Sol Fernandez , doing some programming and choirs. ¹⁹

In 2013, Benito decided to rename Blank Tiger as ” Zero Kill, ” a term used in World War II to warn that there were no dead, “Conceptually, everything I do, later makes sense,” he said. ¹⁶ In April, with the participation of the duet “Ut Ut Ut” in bass and synthesizers, Juan Strambini on guitar and Oaky Castellani on drums, Benito presented his first single, “Automatic Lunatic”. On September 23, he followed the second cut, “Dizzy,” a song totally sung in English. ²⁰ Two days later, he presented his first album Trip Tour , produced by Tweety González (keyboardist for several years of Soda Stereo ), Nicolas ‘Parker’ Pucci - in “Dizzy” - and Benedict himself. ²¹ This work was nominated as “Best New Pop Artist Album” at the Gardel Awards 2014 . ²²

He continued to perform with Zero Kill in Argentina and Chile, in the latter country, were the opening act of Babasónicos in the Caupolicán Theater , on August 30, 2014. ²³ After his father died, Benito participated in the tributes that were made to him. First in an event made two months after his death, titled Siempre es hoy , where he sang with Charly García “Vampiro”, a song in which Gustavo played guitar and forms part of the album Tango 4 by Charly with Pedro Aznar . The tribute was broadcast on public TV a few weeks later; ²⁴ the second, on June 21, 2015, in the Planetarium of Buenos Aires, as the end of the Festival of Emerging City, where he sang with his father’s band, “I take you to take me”, making falsetto in the parts that he originally sang His mother Cecilia. ²⁵

In 2016, he signed with Sony to publish a new album of his project Zero Kill, again under the production of Tweety González and Benito himself. ²⁶

Influences

His main influence is David Bowie . ²⁷ He has also recognized influences of Keane , Goldfrapp , Garbage , MGMT , Michael Jackson , Orbit and Moloko , as well as his father, Gustavo Cerati . ^{7 27}

Discography

• 2013: Trip Tour
• 2016: Alien Head

Collaborations

• 2006: Here we go (by Gustavo Cerati )
• 2009: Natural Force (by Gustavo Cerati )
• 2012: Game 0 (January will be mine)

Videography

• 1993: “I’ll Take You To Take Me Away”
• 2013: «Automatic Lunatic»
• 2014: “Dizzy”
• 2016: “Pedro, take me to the road”
• 2016: “Reincarnate”
• 2016: “The End of a Normal Relationship”

Awards

Nominations

• Gardel Awards 2014 : Best New Pop Artist Album ( Trip Tour )

References