Remembering Gustavo Cerati With The Artists He Influenced — npr.org

Argentine musician Gustavo Cerati died on Sept. 4. Daniel Garcia/AFP/Getty Images hide caption Argentine musician Gustavo Cerati died on Sept. 4. Last week, as we were heading into the studio to record Alt.Latino, we received word that Latin music legend Gustavo Cerati had died. We were shocked. In the '80s and '90s, as frontman for the band Soda Estereo, Cerati became the first pan-Latin American rock star — and he was only 55 when he died on Sept. 4.

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