Gustavo Edgardo Cordera (born 1964 in Lanús

Lanús

Lanús is the capital of Lanús Partido, Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. It lies just south of the capital city Buenos Aires, in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The city has a population of 212,152 , and the Partido de Lanús has a total population of 453,500.A major industrial centre,...

, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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) is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 rock musician, best known as the frontman of the band Bersuit Vergarabat

Bersuit Vergarabat

Bersuit, formed formally in 1989, is one of the most important Argentine rock bands of the 1990s/2000s. The previous name of the band was Henry y la Palangana....

.

Cordera's musical career began in 1988, when he was studying communications

Communication studies

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 at the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora and running his own auto dealership, Cordera Bros. In the spring of that year, he visited Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

 during Carnaval

Brazilian Carnival

The Carnival of Brazil is an annual festival held forty-six days before Easter. On certain days of Lent, Roman Catholics and some other Christians traditionally abstained from the consumption of meat and poultry, hence the term "carnival," from carnelevare, "to remove meat." Carnival celebrations...

 and was inspired to become a musician. Returning to Lanús, he sold his dealership, abandoned his studies, and shaved his head

Head shaving

Head shaving is the practice of shaving the hair from a person's head. At different times and places people have shaved their heads for very diverse reasons: practical, religious, cultural, or aesthetic—so a shaven head has widely varying connotations depending on the context.-Early...

, an act which earned him the sobriquet Pelado ("Bald").

At la Casa de las Artes de la Vieja Avellaneda, a meeting place for musicians and artists, Cordera met keyboardist Juan Subirá and bassist Pepe Céspedes, and together they produced the songs "Masturbación en masa" ("Masturbation en masse") and "Hociquito de Ratón" ("Little Rat-Snout"). A year later, along with drummer Carlos Martín and guitarist Charly Bianco, they formed Bersuit, whose name was soon lengthened to Bersuit Vergarabat. During the early nineties they were joined by guitarist Oscar Righi, keyboardist Raúl Pagano, and vocalist Rubén Sabrinas. In 1992 they released the album Y Punto

Y Punto

Y Punto is the first album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 1992.-Track listing:#"El Tiempo No Para" – 5:16#"La Papita" – 3:17#"Diez Mil" – 4:18#"Tuyu" – 4:45...

, and in 1993, Asquerosa Alegría

Asquerosa Alegría

Asquerosa Alegría is the second album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 1993.-Track listing:# "Fuera De Aca" – 4:11# "Sin Son" – 4:59...

. Both albums were well received.

The group's initial success was interrupted by internal changes, including the departure of Pagano, Sabrinas, and Bianco, and the arrival in 1995 of Alberto Verenzuela.

The group's lack of activity gave rise to rumors of a break-up. "It was the most depressing moment of my life", said Cordera. Though lacking a distributor, the group began working on its third album, tentatively titled "La historia de Don Leopardo y Vir Trompzio" (eventually released in 1996 as Don Leopardo

Don Leopardo

Don Leopardo is the third album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 1996. Recorded in the Pichón Mobile Studio-Track listing:# "Espíritu De Esta Selva" – 3:56...

). Though it was a commercial failure, the band recovered in 1998 with Libertinaje

Libertinaje

Libertinaje is the fourth album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 1998. Recorded in the Estudios Panda between April 20, 1998 and May 23, 1998, and in La Casa between June 3, 1998 and July 14, 1998.-Track listing:#"Yo Tomo" – 3:32#"A Los Tambores" Libertinaje is the...

, followed by Hijos del Culo

Hijos del Culo

Hijos del Culo is the fifth album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 2000.-Track listing:#"El Gordo Motoneta" – 3:54#"La Del Toro" – 4:05#"El Viejo De Arriba" – 3:26...

(2000) and De la Cabeza

De la Cabeza

De la Cabeza is the sixth album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 2002. Is the only Live album of the band, recorded at the Obras Sanitarias Stadium in Buenos Aires, and at the Haedo's ShowCenter. Features the best tracks of the band until that time...

(2002), the latter recorded live at the Estadio Obras. In 2004 they achieved great success with La Argentinidad al Palo

La Argentinidad al Palo

La Argentinidad al Palo: Se Es, Lo Que Se Es is the seventh album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 2004. Released firstly in two different discs, Se Es as disc 1 and Lo Que Se Es as disc 2.-Disc 1: Se Es:...

. Their most recent release is Testosterona

Testosterona

Testosterona is the eighth album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 2005. Recorded in El Cielito studio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, between April and May 2005.-Track listing:#"Yo" – 3:24...

in 2005, whose track "Madre hay una sola" ("There is only one mother") reflects Cordera's environmentalism. On May 12, 2007, the band played at River Plate Stadium, in Buenos Aires, attended by over 60,000 people.

Cordera is married with three children. In his spare time, he enjoys strength training

Strength training

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. He loves football and he is a Lanús fan.

External links

• Official site
• Entry at rock.com.ar
• Interview with The Clinic
  The Clinic
  The Clinic is a Chilean satirical/investigative newspaper founded by Patricio Fernández Chadwick in November 1998. The name was inspired by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's October 1998 arrest in Britain at The London Clinic, which bears the name The Clinic on its façade...
  
  in 2004