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Artist
Gustavo Nocetti
12+ albums
uruguay
about
Gustavo Nocetti was a Tango singer from Montevideo, Uruguay. His career began when he was 15 years old by winning a contest whose award was appearing at "Café Concert", a TV program of Channel 5 SODRE of Montevideo, the official television channel. When he was 19, enthusiastically, he crossed the River Plate and arrived in Buenos Aires. The mythical "Caño 14" was the first venue where he sang, invited by Atilio Stampone. There he shared the spotlight with interpreters that strongly influenced him: Roberto Goyeneche, Edmundo Rivero and Rubén Juárez, among others. He as well appeared at the TV program "Grandes valores del tango". In 1983, as staff singer he joined the Orquesta del Tango de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires that Raúl Garello and Carlos García led. Nocetti clearly knew who were the singers that influenced him: basically Gardel, Goyeneche and Rubén Juárez. His first record was "Naranjo en flor", (Orfeo label), later "Somos ilusos" (La Batuta label, with arrangements by Fernando Cabrera). In 1982 he appeared in the Osvaldo Pugliese's LP "Futuro", alongside the most outstanding vocalists of the latter tango generation. With the ensemble led by Raúl Garello he recorded previously unreleased pieces written by Horacio Ferrer and Raúl Garello ("Viva el tango", 1988 and "Tangos en homenaje a Woody Allen", 1992). When he settled back in Montevideo he recorded "Excesos" (Sondor, 1996) and appeared as soloist in the three CD's that the Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo re
