Biography
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Years Active
1984 – present (41 years)
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Founded In
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Members
- Héctor Pampa (1998 – 2005)
ARGIES is a band formed in Rosario, Argentina.
The name "Argies" is the pejorative apocope for "argentine", expression extensively used by the English soldiers
during the war in Malvinas (Falkland) in 1982. Even though their musical root is the British punk from the seventies, with tendencies to ska, reggae, Latin Music and good part of Rock and roll.
Its lyric has a testimonial style and, nowadays, turning to a deeper search into the inside of human ethic.
The difference between Argies and another rock band, they aren´t a typical band with all fixed members.
Argies is working like a cooperative of independent musicians. Every member come in the band, playing until
his personal and free decision, helping to create a cultural movement across the years.
Today David -vocal and guitar- he still in the band since the first moment, keeping the leader voice, also he is author for a big part of music and lyric.
Argies 2007 is:
David: vocals + guitar
Damián: guitar + vocals
Ignacio: bass + chorus
Sebastian: drums
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