Gustavo Santaolalla

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Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer.

He has won Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005, and Babel in 2006.

More recently, he composed the original score for the video game The Last of Us (2013), and the theme music for The CW series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019) and the Netflix series Making a Murderer (2015–present).

Early life

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla was born in Ciudad Jardín Lomas del Palomar on 19 August 1951.

Personal life

Santaolalla lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Alejandra Palacios, and their daughter Luna (born 1994) and son Don Juan Nahuel (born 1999). He has a daughter named Ana (born 1980) from a previous relationship with Monica Campins.

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Career

Santaolalla's music career began in 1967 when he co-founded Arco Iris, a rock band that pioneered the fusion of rock and Latin American folk, also known as rock nacional. Former model Danais "Dana" Winnycka and her companion, singer Ara Tokatlian, accompanied the band in a yoga commune. The band had a few hits, such as "Maanas Campestres" ("Country Mornings"), but the band made inroads into new styles of musical expression (notably a ballet piece for Oscar Aráiz). However, Santaolalla was constricted by Dana's strict guidelines, which prohibited the consumption of meat, alcohol, and opioids; he left the organization in 1975.

Santaolalla formed Soluna, a band in which he appeared with teenage pianist and singer Alejandro Lerner and his then-girlfriend Monica Campins, which was a hit in 1976. They released just one album (Energa Natural in 1977) together. He then departed for Los Angeles, where he preformed Wet Picnic with ex-Crucis member Anis Kerpel. He briefly returned to Argentina in 1981 to produce Leon Gieco's Pensar en Nada and his first solo album. He has released three albums as a solo artist. Santaolalla (1981), the 1980s' first self-titled album, broke new ground in Argentina by incorporating the 1980s sound into rock. Lerner and the Willy Iturry-Alfredo Toth rhythm section, who were two-thirds of the band GIT, were joined by him. Gas is his second album, which was released in 1995.

Ronroco (1998), Santaolalla's most recent solo album, contained several tracks with the distinctive sound of the folk string instrument of the same name, which later became a defining piece in his soundtrack work. Ronroco's solo piece for Irmazu Falls, which was later used in films including The Insider, Collateral, and Babel, as well as a 2007 Vodafone TV commercial and TV series titled Deadwood, 24, and Top Gear. It also features Walter Salles' "De Ushuaia a La Quiaca" from his book "The Motorcycle Diaries." Santaolalla assisted in the growth of rock en espaol by serving as producer for the Mexican musicians Neón, Maldita Vecindad, Fobia, Molotov, Café Tacuba, and Julieta Venegas; Colombian singer Juanes; fellow Argentine rock musician Divididos, León Gieco; and many others; among other things; the Colombian rock band Los Prisioneros; fellow Argentine rock musician José

Santaolalla began working on film soundtracks in the late 1990s, releasing albums for the films Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and The Motorcycle Diaries. He provided the instrumental music for the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, from which "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" received the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. For Brokeback Mountain, Santaolalla was given the 2006 Academy Award for Original Music Score. He was nominated for his second Academy Award for film score to Babel in 2007 and dedicated the award to his father and his home country Argentina.

Santaolalla performed as the producer of Gaby Kerpel's Carnabailito and co-produced Nuevo, a collection of Mexican musicians, honoring Mexico's musical heritage. He has been a participant of the revived neo-tango movement as the primary mover behind the Bajofondo Tango Club group. He is co-producer of Calle 13's album "Tango del Pecado," a song from their album Residente o Visitante. He received the Platinum Konex Award in 2005 as the best Argentine artistic creator of the 1990-2005 decade. He wrote the soundtrack for the Louis Vuitton film Where Will Life Take You? in 2008. Bruno Aveillan's film "Silver" is a film directed. He recorded two songs on "All You Need Is Me," an English singer Morrissey single. "Children In Pieces" and "My Dearest Love" were recorded in Los Angeles.

Santaolalla produced the soundtrack for Aamir Khan's film Dhobi Ghat, which was released on January 21. He has also worked with Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov on several projects ordered by soprano Dawn Upshaw. These include opera Ainadamar, based on the assassination of Spanish poet Federico Garca Lorca, and Ayre, a series of folk songs in which Santaolalla appears in a group known as the Andalucian Dogs. He scored On the Road, a 2012 film directed by Walter Salles and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. He was nominated for Producer of the Year at the Latin Grammy Awards in 2011 for his work on De Noche (Antonio Carmona), Entre la Ciudad y el Mar (Gustavo Galindo), and Rêverie (Luciano Supervivence), co-produced with Juan Campodónico of Bajofondo.

Santaolalla received critical praise for composing the score to The Last of Us, a 2013 action-adventure video game that was his first entry into the video game market. He returned to compose the music for its sequel, The Last of Us Part II, in 2020.

Santaolalla was inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.

Eric Clapton invited Santaolalla to attend his Crossroads Festival at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, Texas, on September 20 and 21. He performed "De Ushuaia a la Quiaca" and a version of "Ando Rodando." He appeared in the last song of the festival with Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Buddy Guy, John Mayer, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Jimmie Vaughan, James Bay, and others.

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