Christian Basso is a music composer, performer and writer. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. in 1966. He currently lives and works there. His music combines popular elements from rock, jazz, country music, tarantella and tango, with classical music and the tradition of soundtrack composers; all of this is filtered through the cultural perspective of a city like Buenos Aires, with its unique and particular multiplicity of cultural and ethnic influences.
He was formed on classical piano with Klaus Cabjolsky, contrabass with Manolo Stalman, guitar with Ricardo Pellican, bass with Rinaldo Rafanelli and Carlos Madariaga. He also studied Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires.
His career began in the 1980s with jazz and avant garde rock bands, playing bass and keybords (CLAP, FRICCION, CHARLY GARCIA)
In the early 90' ,together with Diego Frenkel, created LA PORTUARIA, well known argentinian band. They released five records for EMI. He composed the music of two quite...