Biography
Christian Basso (born in Buenos Aires 27th September 1966) is an Argentinian composer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist. As a solo he edited ¨Espiritista¨ (2014, Crack/Sony Music), ¨La Música Cura!¨ (2011, Random records), ¨La Pentalpha¨ (2004, Los Años Luz Discos), ¨Profania¨ (2001, Random Records). Prestigious musicians have participated in these discography projects such as the soprano Eva Faludi (National Poliphonic Choir), american singer Kal Cahoone (Lilium), the chinese singer Haien Qiu and the musician as well as arranger Alejandro Teran among some others. Christian has composed several film scores. He has worked for the prestigious Korean director Lee Chang Dong in the film ¨Secret Sunshine/Milyang, which in 2007 won the Gold Palm in Cannes. In Mexico, he worked for the films ¨No eres tu, soy yo (2010) directed by Alejandro Springall, ¨Nos vemos Papa (2011) whose director was Lucia Carreras, ¨Marcelo (2012) directed by Omar Yñigo and ¨Tlatelolco/Verano del 68 ¨(2012, the movie and TV serie) which has been directed by Carlos Bolado. In Argentina, he has written the music for La invencion de la carne (2009) of Santiago Loza, Eva and Lola (2010) of Sabrina Farji, La Despedia (2012) whose director was Chavo D'Emilio and Las Mujeres llegan tarde of Marcela Balza. Moreover, some songs which Christian has written were included in some films like "Star Maps" (USA, 1997), "Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas" (MEX, 1999), "Dot the i" (UK, 2003), the TV serie ¨Carlos¨ (FR 2011) directed by Oliver Assayas and recently the inclusion of his song ¨Flowers¨ in the film¨No se aceptan devoluciones/Instructions not included¨ (Mex, 2013) directed by Eugenio Derbez. Christian integrates the group ¨Sexteto Irreal¨ together with the musicians Axel Krygier, Alejandro Teran, Manuel Schaller y Fernando Samalea. In 2010, they edited a disc named Jogging a traves de los Años Luz Discos. They have performed in Bs As and the rest of the country many times. Between 2010 and 2014 Christian has benn consecutively music jury of Latin America K-POP, a competition where different latin American candidates interpret Korean pop songs. Basso gained recognition on the local scene thanks to different projects carried out with Charly Garcia (Las Ligas), Richard Coleman, Gustavo Cerati and Fernando Samalea (Fricción), Daniel Melingo, Javier Malosetti, María Gabriela Epumer, among others; and principally while iniciating his career as a composer with La Portuaria. Christian has been the ideologist as well as the founding member together with Diego Frenkel of this band. His songs, in coauthorship with Frenkel, evolved into representative icons of this band. An example could be Selva y El bar de la calle Rodney. The band recorded six albums for EMI. What is more, he took part in a great quantity of international tours and is responsible for an important number of CD releases.
