The unexpected news of the death of rock icon Indio Solari took a whole country by surprise on Friday, leading to a nationwide mourning.

The information began to roam social networks at 9 a.m. and soon reached headlines at news portals, TV and radio. Fellow members of his solo band Los Fundamentalistas del Aire Acondicionado confirmed Solari’s demise off the record. 

A police squad was sent to his home in Parque Leloir as a routine procedure.

Carlos Indio Solari was the frontman of highly popular band Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, which began playing in the mid-Seventies, recorded their first albums a decade later and reached enormous popularity in the Nineties. 

His solo career broke all attendance records, with an incredible show for 400,000 fans in 2017.

He was 77 years old and retired in 2023 due to advanced Parkinson’s disease but........

© Buenos Aires Herald