Just at the end of the year, at the last meeting of the Supreme Council, the University of Buenos Aires decided to award its highest honorary award to the Argentine artist Carlos Alberto Indian Solarifor his distinguished career and fundamental contribution to popular culture.
The resolution’s recitals highlight that “his extensive musical output has made him a…” with an artistic career spanning more than five decades central figure of Argentine and Latin American rockas well as a prominent figure in the arts and popular culture of our country.
He also emphasizes that he was a singer, co-composer and lyricist, co-founder and symbolic voice of the group. Patricio Rey and his ricotta roundsand current creative reference for Los Fundamentalistas del Aire Adiciones, projects that became milestones in pop music and unique community experiences surrounding their live performances.
It is also highlighted that his texts, which have a remarkable poetic and symbolic density, have been the subject of analysis from various academic perspectives – philosophical, sociological, literary and cultural His work contributed to the construction of his own languagecritical of social reality, power and inequalities, with a unique and deep relationship with its audience.
Due to the originality of his work, his contribution to culture and critical thinking, and his influence on the production of collective meanings that are part of the country’s symbolic heritage, the University of Buenos Aires decided to award him this award.
On August 19th Charlie García He traveled to the UBA headquarters in Puan to accept the same award and said at the event: “Many thanks to the university for this important recognition. From now on I will be called Doctor Charly.”
With these words and fingers raised in a V, surrounded by a crowd that filled Room 108 of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, he received an honorary doctorate. It was a short but emotional ceremony, with the audience singing fervently, wearing T-shirts with his face and music playing in the background. The artist received the highest honor bestowed by the institution after a unanimous vote in the Supreme Council.
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