Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolallais an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005, and Babel in 2006. Most recently, he composed the theme music for the Netflix series Making a Murderer...
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth19 August 1951
CityBuenos Aires, Argentina
happy hispanic meant
I was happy (Monday) because I think I was probably the only Hispanic that got an award. For me that meant a lot.
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When they ask if rock en Espanol is going to take over, I just feel that it's a thriving force, and something that's here to stay. I don't know if it's going to take over, but I'm sure it's not going to stop and most likely it's going to keep on growing, because there are more young people who embrace the music and use this music to express what's going on around them.
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You're not thinking about if it is a gay relationship or a straight relationship. You're thinking about a heartbreaking situation.
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I think alternative music is a type of music that fits in the context where it's created. I believe, coming from Latin America, it creates that incredible context,
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I'm so proud to have worked in this movie. (The) movie shows us that love is what makes us very similar in spite of being so different.
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Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish.
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I'm so proud to have worked in this movie, Brokeback Mountain, a movie that once again showed us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that that we can be so different too.
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It's always nice when your work is recognized.
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I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.