Marciano Cantero, leader of the Green Dwarfs
In times when streaming platforms did not exist and music was broadcast in cassette format and FM radio, Los Enanitos Verdes has trampled the music scene national since 1984, when they released their first album, simply called “Enanitos Verdes”. The death this Thursday of his singer, Marciano Cantero, leads us to review some of the hits they have created in more than 30 years of career.
Some of them who have not only transcended borders, but have become football anthems that tirelessly descend from the stands.
“I saw you on a train”from the album “Habitaciones Strangeas”, released in 1987, it tells the story of a man who sees a girl on public transport who tries to help, but cannot speak to her.
“And I didn’t know what to say. I was kidding myself. Stunned. For no reason. And I saw you on a train, I saw you on a train and I couldn’t even say ‘hi!'” Success with which countless Argentine fans cheered for their football teams.
“The wall” It was one of the songs that attracted the most attention and stood out on the 1986 album “Contrarreloj”.
In that song, Cantero describes from the top of a great wall, “how those old illusions that go beyond the wall come true”.
Two other songs that stand out especially in his long career on stage and in recording studios are “Bolivian lament” Y “A friend is a light”.
The first, restored by the Turf band the same year. It was released in 1994, as part of “Big Bang” and made its mark in rock and pop, not only in Argentina, but also in Latin America.
That “drunkard and madman” with his “idiot heart” declares his eternal love to a woman by asking her not to comb her hair in bed because “the salesmen will be late”. It was arguably the band’s biggest hit.
“A friend is a light” was one of the songs chosen to be part of “Come yesterday”, in 1992, and is one of the greatest anthems, just of friendship, that Argentine rock has ever sung.
According to Cantero himself in 2021 in El Nueve, the song was inspired by the newborn son and the friendship he hoped to have with him.
“That in addition to being father and son, we were friends,” he said.
Cantero never imagined, however, that the song would take such an important place in friendships. “I never imagined it would become this kind of anthem”.
“A friend is a light that shines in the dark”, says the refrain of the song which, from now on, like every success when its author leaves, turns up the volume.
Los Enanitos Verdes began with presentations in several pubs, then went to small theaters, not only in their province but also in neighboring ones, quickly becoming the most requested and requested band in Mendoza and the Cuyo area.
In early 1983 they went to Buenos Aires to try their luck, performing in pubs and bars. A year later they were chosen as “Grupo Revelación” in La Falda, Córdoba, after a performance that opened the doors for independent labels to expand their wings on the continent in the late 1980s.
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Source: Clarin
