Latin Rock Icon Gustavo Cerati Dead at 55 — billboard.com

Gustavo Cerati, the front man of the legendary Argentine pop-rock group Soda Stereo, who went on to a brilliant but too short solo career, has died. Millions of fans are mourning his death, which had been falsely rumored several times since he fell into a coma following a stroke after a concert in Venezuela in October 2010. Cerati’s family broke the news on social media, informing his Facebook fans and 2.67 million Twitter followers that the artist passed today (Sept. 4) in the early hours of the morning of respiratory failure at the Buenos Aires clinic where he had been interned. The news was the top story on the front page of Argentina’s national newspaper Clarin.

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