A great professional...

Hello again, I wanted to take a moment to talk about someone that is very important in my life and now my career in the university, a person that I admire because of his work and what he has done, Gustavo Santaolalla. He is a musician and, music producer and most important, a great sound engineer. Gustavo was born in 1951 in Argentina and started as a member of a rock band called 

''Arco Iris'', playing guitar and singing, he was also the main composer of the band. In time he left the band and then started working with several musicians and other bands as a music producer, also he worked  in films creating the soundtracks, this led him to the Oscars winning in two occasions, one for his work in the movie ''Brokeback Mountain'' and for his work in the movie ''Babel''. Gustavo´s latests work was for the soundtrack a sound mixing for the videogame ''The Last of Us''.

I like him not only because his success and the recognition of the world, I like him because of his way of being, the way he works, he has an amazing creativity and ideas that make him a great professional in the field. 

My Music...

I don't like talking about my favorite music or favorite anything because I don't like to put a thing over another one, all the music is different with their own singular characteristics, and besides, I always change the kind of music that I listen to after a while. But if I had to choose a band I would say Los Jaivas, that's what I'm listening at the moment.

Los Jaivas was a very popular Chilean band of the 70', 80' decade, they are still playing today but after the death of the lead singer and player Eduardo 'Gato' Alquinta it wasn't the same. In the beginning they called themselves High-Bass because of the difference of heights between them.

They are famous for playing a kind of progressive rock like Pink Floyd but adding to their music Chilean folkloric elements and instruments. This is why I like this band very much, the mixture between styles is amazing, it is like you're listening to a 'cueca' and then you hear a guitar solo, it's great.

One of my favorite songs from this band and one of my favorites in general has got to be ''Corre que te pillo'' from the Aconcagua album (if you haven't listened to it you should).

Pictures...

I'm not sure who took this picture but I think he did a great job, the picture shows us one of the most famous soccer plays of all time, Diego Maradona's hand of God, the picture was taken during a match of the world cup in 1986, a game with Argentina against England when Maradona scored a goal with his hand because he wasn't tall enough to hit the ball with his head, I like this photograph because it reminds me of the human 'inteligence' to do impossible things in order to win , maybe it wasn't a fair play (because it's cheating), but still, it is a great picture of a historic moment in soccer and sports in general.

A fun fact about this picture is that when Maradona scored the goal he was waiting for his teammates to go with him and embrace him but no one was coming to him so he told them : ''Come hug me, or the referee isn’t going to allow it'', so the goal was allowed and Argentina won the game and a couple days later the world cup.