The unexpected news of the death of rock icon Indio Solari took a whole country by surprise on Friday, leading to a nationwide mourning.
The information began to roam social networks at 9 a.m. and soon reached headlines at news portals, TV and radio. Fellow members of his solo band Los Fundamentalistas del Aire Acondicionado confirmed Solari’s demise off the record.
A police squad was sent to his home in Parque Leloir as a routine procedure.
Carlos Indio Solari was the frontman of highly popular band Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, which began playing in the mid-Seventies, recorded their first albums a decade later and reached enormous popularity in the Nineties.
His solo career broke all attendance records, with an incredible show for 400,000 fans in 2017.
