Andres Calamaro

Andrés Calamaro (Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 22, 1961) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, musician, composer and record producer.

He is considered one of the icons of Argentine rock for his performance with Los Abuelos de la Nada and his prolific solo career, as well as an influential figure in Spanish rock for his success with Los Rodríguez. Throughout his life He has lived alternating between Buenos Aires and Madrid. He is the brother of fellow singer Javier Calamaro.

Biography

Beginnings

Calamaro's first instrument was a bandoneon, which he received at the age of eight. From the age of thirteen he devoted himself to the electric guitar and the piano, an instrument that he learned to play together with his teacher Osvaldo Caló. Years later, In Uruguay, Calamaro recorded his first album, as a keyboard player in the Raíces group, to which he was recommended by Sergio Makaroff. He makes his official debut as a musician with the group's first album, B.O.V. Sun.

In 1980 he joined the Dickinson Power Trio as keyboardist, led by Rob Dickinson on vocals and guitar and Gustavo Primo on drums. They record an album and travel to Los Angeles, USA and, after some pubs shows and a failed presentation at Tower Records, they return to Buenos Aires. From that strange American adventure was left the rare album credited to the Dickinson Power Trio, "L.A. Dreams", with three themes.

Back in Buenos Aires, he tried his luck with the Chorizo Colorado Blues Band, which he formed with his friend Augusto Gringui Herrera, to later try it with a group that followed the line of The Platters, and leaning towards rock, in order to define itself again with Gringui, in what would be his project, Elmer's Band, to which Eduardo Cano (later bassist of Los Twist) joins.

He plays as a session musician for artists like Los Hermanos Makaroff and Julián Petrina. The bassist Zeta Bosio invites him to join a local band called The Morgan, along with Charly Amato and Sandra Baylac, in which Gustavo Cerati also played. He then participates in the group & # 34; Stress & # 34; formed by Sandra Baylac (singer), Pablo Guadalupe (drums), Carlos Amato (guitar), Gustavo Cerati (guitar) and Zeta Bosio (bass). Calamaro replaced Alejandro O'Donnell. The group "Stress" it was the genesis of "Los Estereotipos".^{[citation needed]}

Later the band would be called Proyecto Erekto, when Gustavo Cerati joined them. Said project would end up evolving with the presence of Charly Alberti, now without the presence of Calamaro, to finally become the successful band Soda Stereo.

Thanks to the help of his friend Alejandro Lerner and Pipo Lernoud, who recommend him as a keyboardist, Calamaro is summoned by Miguel Abuelo for a new musical project.

Los Abuelos and first solo stage (1982-1989)

With Miguel Abuelo as leader, the new lineup of Los Abuelos de la Nada is formed. The band is then made up of the bassist and future producer Cachorro López, the saxophonist and clarinetist Daniel Melingo, the guitarist of La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, Gustavo Bazterrica and the drummer, Polo Corbella. While working in Miguel Abuelo's band, Calamaro had the opportunity to play simultaneously with Charly García's support band, who had acted as producer of Los Abuelos de la Nada and had noticed them for their live performances. ^{[citation required]}

Calamaro collaborates with Los Abuelos with his own compositions, becoming recognized as a composer. In 1982 the group's first album went on sale, from which they extracted the single composed by Calamaro "Sin gamulán". The same success would be "Mil horas", from the following album Vasos y besos. While playing with this band, Calamaro participates in the musicalization of the work "Tango salsa" by Roberto Granados, which allows him to make more and more of his own songs known, some of which are shared with his friend Augusto Gringui Herrera. Thus, in 1984 and without having yet recorded and published the third studio album by Los Abuelos de la Nada, he released his first solo album, Hotel Calamaro , produced by Charly García. At the same time, he leaves his accompaniment in García's support band due to his commitments with Los Abuelos de la Nada. In 1984, the last studio album signed by Andrés Calamaro with Los Abuelos de la Nada, Himno de mi corazón, would go on sale. From his career in Los Abuelos de la Nada, it is worth noting two songs that are part of the unconscious musical collective of the Río de la Plata: «Mil horas» and «Costumbres argentinas».

During these years Calamaro was also part of the Ray Milland Band, a group that also included Daniel Melingo, Pipo Cipolatti (with whom he had already had musical experiences in a band called Los Almirantes), Miguel Zavaleta, Fabiana Cantilo in backing vocals, Camilo Iezzi, Gustavo Donés, Charly García and Pedro Aznar among others. The first album by Los Twist, La dicha en movimiento , in which he participates as a guest keyboardist, also dates from that time.

In 1985 he recorded live material together with Los Abuelos de la Nada, which would be his last collaboration with the band. A little later, and now detached from her, Calamaro released a somewhat more personal, experimental album, entitled Vida Cruel. For the album, he brings together a band with well-known names from the Argentine scene, in addition to other participations. Richard Coleman, Luis Alberto Spinetta and Charly García are some of the musicians, but the success that Calamaro had achieved in Los Abuelos has not returned.

In 1986 he participated as a composer and keyboardist on the album Puedes ser tú by Miki González. He then began his work as a producer for bands like Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Enanitos Verdes. He also participates simultaneously as guest bassist and keyboardist of Luis Alberto Spinetta on his album Privé and gives some of his songs to artists such as: Nito Mestre, Mónica Posse and María Rosa Yorio for publication in their respective discs.

Hosting his own radio program, Welcome to the hotel, he meets Ariel Rot, with whom he ends up forming a musical partnership to record two solo albums and go on tour in Argentina. Rot and Calamaro lose interest in following the musical canons of the time and dedicate themselves solely to rock and roll. With the collaboration of important musicians, the albums Por mirarte and Nobody gets out of here alive, the most independent and mature of his musical career to date, went on sale in 1988 and 1989 respectively. moment, although with minimal commercial repercussion, just with a few singles like "Cartas sin marcar". In those days he would produce the Chilean band Upa!. ^{[citation needed ]}

It should be noted that his album Nobody gets out of here alive receives excellent reviews from the specialized press, being chosen as the best album of the year in 1989. In 2007 it would be ranked 60th by 180 musicians and music journalists among "The 100 best Argentine rock albums" according to Rolling Stone magazine. What did not arrive at the moment was massive and economic recognition.

Calamaro and Rot then decided to try it in Spain in 1990 and refound themselves as Los Rodríguez, with Julián Infante, Guillermo Martín, and drummer Germán Vilella.

The Rodríguez (1990-1996)

Los Rodríguez

In the fall of 1990, Calamaro left for Spain, where he joined Ariel Rot and Julián Infante, both former members of Tequila, to carry out a new musical project named Los Rodríguez. After several years as a soloist, Calamaro thus returned to form a band that completed its formation with Germán Vilella on drums and Daniel Zamora on bass. The band released three studio albums (Good luck, No documents and Words more, words less) and two live, Disco pirate and Los Rodríguez in Sales 1993.

With Los Rodríguez, Calamaro rediscovered the massive success he had with Los Abuelos de la Nada, but this time on both sides of the Atlantic. The first album of the group, Good luck (1991), contains the song "My illness", a song that was requested by Diego Armando Maradona for his return to football (with the voice of the singer Fabiana Cantilo). After Good luck comes Pirate Record, which includes live performances, collaborations with Fito Páez and even a Sui Generis version of the song «Mr. Jones».

The third album, Sin documentos, went on sale in 1993 and included some of the band's most well-known songs: «Dulce condena» and «Sin documentos». The album would be chosen in 2010 in the twenty-fifth position of "The 50 best Spanish rock albums" by Rolling Stone magazine.

The fourth album is Palabras más, palabras menos (1995), which is the band's greatest success, taking them on several tours throughout Spain and South America and placing them at the top of rock in Spanish, always looking for a new aesthetic and incorporating sounds other than rock such as flamenco and rumba. Within this album are songs as popular as "Mucho mejor", "Para no olvidar", flamenco-style, "La milonga del sailor y el capitán", "Aquí no podemos hacerlo" (with a reggae rhythm) or "10 years after". It also contains a song composed by Joaquín Sabina and Calamaro, "Todavía una canción de amor".

Calamaro continues to compose simultaneously to his work in Los Rodríguez. This is how he edited the two volumes of the Recordings Found series, which include recordings found in trunks, furniture from his parents' house and songs in which the musician is accompanied by characters such as Luca Prodan, vocalist of Sumo, or Daniel Melingo. The songs in these two volumes had been composed for almost 10 years (1984-1993) and once discarded by the musician. They are two albums with a certain experimental vocation, in which he shows his artistic restlessness with productions in different styles and playing both guitars and pianos. They include songs like "Lou Bizarro", "You can't live on love" and "Good luck and see you later". The records would go on sale in 1994 and 1996 respectively.

In 1995 he participated in the soundtrack of the film Wild Horses, with the song «Algún lugar encontrare». The activity with Los Rodríguez would come to an end a year after the publication of their last album, Palabras más, palabras menos (1995), mainly due to artistic differences between Calamaro and the rest of the group. To conclude the band's activity, a compilation of songs is made, some recorded in studios and others live. This album is published as: Hasta luego, which finally consolidates the band in terms of sales; With this material they go on a Spanish tour together with Joaquín Sabina. In 2002 a new compilation went on sale, titled Para no olvidar, which included some previously unpublished songs. At that time the personal and musical distance between him and Charly García took place, with whom he had collaborated for more than fifteen years. ^{[citation required]}

Second solo stage and El salmon (1997-2000)

In 1997, after the successful stage with Los Rodríguez, Calamaro undertook a new project that would take him to the United States. In this country, along with session musicians, he recorded the songs for his new solo album, entitled: Alta Dirtura and which includes songs like "Flaca", "Media Verónica", "Crímenes perfectos" or «Loco», whose lyrics would cause him some controversy (specifically the verse «I'm going to go out for a walk alone, sit in a park to smoke a joint»).^{[citation required]}

Alta Dirtura is a sales success, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide (the second best-selling Argentine rock album at that time after Love after love, by Fito Páez) and takes the musician to perform a large number of concerts, in which he shares the stage with musicians such as Fito Páez and Joaquín Sabina among others. Ten years later (2007) Alta Dirtura would be ranked tenth by 180 musicians and music journalists in the list of The 100 Best Argentine Rock Albums chosen by the magazine Rolling Stone.

Just after this album, Calamaro would release The other faces of high dirt Unpublished + rarities + songs where the B-sides from the production period of are found. High dirt. In 1997 Calamaro participated in the EP of his former band Raíces entitled Ey Bo Road, specifically in the song "Candombe de las esquinas".

With his fast pace of songwriting, between late 1998 and mid-1999, he had written or tweaked over a hundred songs, ready for release. Due to obvious space problems, only thirty-seven were released on his next album, one for each year of the singer's age at that time. This is how Brutal Honesty was born, up to that moment the longest album in the history of Argentine rock^{[citation required]} and, for some critics,^[who?] Calamaro's best work.^{[citation required]}

Brutal honesty places Calamaro at the top of the Hispanic music scene. It is also a complicated album due to the vital situation of excesses in which he was surrounded, in the context of a sentimental breakup. In the Rolling Stone magazine list, where more than 150 musicians chose the 100 most important Argentine rock albums, Brutal Honesty would occupy the 30th position. In fact, the album has been growing in critical consideration: in 2010 it was chosen by the same magazine in third place of the "50 best albums of Spanish rock»: Brutal Honesty is made up of 37 songs, alluding to his 37-year life at the time of recording the album. It has the collaborations of Pappo, Diego Armando Maradona, Mariano Mores, Moris, Virgilio Espósito, Bebe Contepomi, among others. ,

Never has any work in our language had such repercussions, it has raised such passions between the respectable, has so far mitified its author, nor has it served as a lighthouse for many artists on both Atlantic shores.

Juan Puchades, Rolling Stone.

In 1999, Andrés Calamaro is in charge of opening the twelve concerts that Bob Dylan performs during his Spanish tour after the release of his double live album The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966. The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert. Calamaro as Dylan's opening act offers an acoustic show, accompanied by two of his usual musicians: Guillermo Martín and Candy Caramelo, where he reviews some hits by Los Rodríguez and his solo career. He fulfills one of his greatest musical inspirations with these concerts, and he renounces charging for them.

The year 2000 saw a new explosion of creativity by the Argentine musician. After selecting three hundred songs out of five hundred that he records, the artist travels to Spain with his musicians (Ciro Fogliata, Guillermo Martín, Candy Caramelo, Gringui Herrera, Niño Bruno and the guitarist Coti Sorokin) and records the 103 songs that are presented at El salmon, a historic album for the music industry, since it was made up of no more and no less than five CDs. The exhausting experience of composing and editing El Salmón plunges Calamaro into a creative drought that will last four years, in which he will not edit any material, and in which there is speculation about a premature withdrawal from the musician.

Third solo stage (2001-2010)

Calamaro during the "Dos Rodríguez" tour in Buenos Aires in 2006.

The commercial vacuum after El Salmón is filled with sporadic appearances, which include hits like «Para siempre» with Los Ratones Paranoicos. At that time, Calamaro declared himself in favor of the free circulation of songs on the Internet. "Music belongs to those who want to listen to it and to no one else," says the composer.^{[citation required]}

As a realization of this philosophy, he began to provide the material he produced in his home studio free of charge over the Internet. The materials posted on the Internet have low sound quality, which is why a group of followers remasters the material and, with the musician's permission, makes it available to the public again for free on the Internet. To ensure the quality of his recordings, Andrés Calamaro founded Radio Salmón Vaticano, thus starting a sort of recording cyberstudio on his official website. In a span of three years he composes hundreds of songs, of which only approximately fifty come to light.

In 2003 he participated in the soundtrack of the film El apron de Lili. In February 2004, she released the album El cantante , an album of versions of boleros and songs from the Latin American songbook. In addition, Calamaro adds three songs that had been circulating on the web: "Estadio Azteca", "La libertad" and "Las oportunidades". The album is produced by Javier Limón and recorded in his studio, with the participation of musicians such as Niño Josele and Jerry González.

After several comings and goings between Madrid and Buenos Aires, he meets up with his old friends from Bersuit Vergarabat and, after accompanying them at the end of their tour at the end of 2004, they meet to rehearse part of Calamaro's repertoire. In 2005, the Argentinean singer returns to the stage. On February 11, he appears, seconded by Bersuit Vergarabat, at the Siempre Rock festival, held in Cosquín, province of Córdoba, Argentina.

In 2005, the Konex Foundation awarded him the Konex Platinum Award, as the best rock author-composer of the decade. Ten years earlier he had obtained the Diploma of Merit as one of the 5 best of the decade 1985-1994 in the same discipline. On April 18, 19 and 20, Calamaro plays at the Luna Park stadium, accompanied those nights by musicians such as Juanjo Domínguez (with whom he performs the tangos "Como dos extraños" and "Por una cabeza"), Juanse (leader of Los Ratones Paranoicos, with which he pays tribute to the late Pappo in the songs "Desconfío" and "Tren de las 16"), Andrés Ciro Martínez (former leader of Los Piojos, who contributes the harmonica and his voice to songs like "Alta Dirtura") and, finally, his brother Javier Calamaro, who performs "No me nombres" with him. On the 20th, Gustavo Cordera replaced the absent Juanjo Domínguez and they performed "Estadio Azteca", "Nueva zamba para mi tierra" by Litto Nebbia and the Bersuit classic "Mi caramel". One of these concerts would later become the album El regreso.

On December 17, 2005, Calamaro played at the Obras Sanitarias stadium in Buenos Aires in front of more than 25,000 spectators. This concert would also be released later in the form of a DVD with the title Made In Argentina. That same year, a tribute album to the Argentine artist began to be prepared.

On May 22, 2006, Calamaro launches Tinta roja, where he covers ten tangos, produced by Javier Limón and with the collaboration of the Spanish guitarist El Niño Josele. On his tour he would be accompanied by Niño Josele, who had already done so on the El cantante tour, and the Argentine Juanjo Domínguez. Calamaro triumphs at the Gardel Awards, a ceremony held at the Gran Rex theater in Buenos Aires, obtaining the Gardel de Oro and three distinctions for his album El regreso. In addition, he won the award for the best performance of the year for Tuyo siempre , for the best album by a male rock artist and for the best cover design, for Zona de Obras . During said ceremony, Charly García throws a hat that he was wearing into Calamaro's hands at the end of his presentation, which would open the doors to a possible reconciliation of the musicians.

This same year the tribute to the artist, Calamaro querido! Singing to the salmon. The cast of this tribute album includes several historical Argentine rock musicians: León Gieco, Litto Nebbia, Pedro Aznar, Fabiana Cantilo, Fito Páez, groups such as Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Los Pericos, Los Auténticos Decadentes. Artists from other countries such as Joaquín Sabina, Niña Pastori, Julieta Venegas or Muchachito Bombo Infierno also participate.

Since May 2006, Calamaro has performed several concerts with his ex-partner Ariel Rot, performing songs by Los Rodríguez that have rarely been heard. In December of that year they closed the tour "Dos Rodríguez" with a couple of recitals at the Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires, attended by more than 30,000 spectators in each one. During the same year, the album El palacio de las flores was released, which he recorded together with La Luz, a support band for Litto Nebbia. Most of the material is composed entirely by Calamaro.

2007 In that year he is recognized as the personality of the year in Argentina.^{[citation required]} On September 11, 2007 La lengua popular. The first single from the LP, Cinco minutos más (minibar) has rhythms influenced by Cachorro López, producer of the album. The second single is Carnaval de Brasil. The album returns to the simplicity of what is most popular by the artist, moving away from the experimentation and musical eclecticity usual in other albums by the musician. The tour of the album begins in Santiago de Chile on December 9, 2007 in front of 10,000 spectators. Later it continues in the cities of Córdoba and Buenos Aires, gathering 60,000 spectators in the latter in two presentations at the Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires. During this period, the DVD Dos son multitude from the tour with Fito & Fitipaldis from 2007.

In 2008 he reunited with his old band Raíces, thirty years after their first production, to release a new album with versions of that classic B.O.V. Dombe as well as some new themes. They include two previously unpublished songs from the repertoire that Calamaro would record in his home studio ("De las dos orillas" and "Mancada en la pampa"). In March of that year, Andrés Calamaro won the Carlos Gardel de Oro award for the second time, in addition to five other gardels in various categories.

Calamaro during his performance in the Razzmatazz room in Barcelona, in September 2008.

The tour of La lengua popular continues in various cities in Spain and Argentina and its first performances in Colombia. He returns to the Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires gathering the same number of spectators as his previous performances. Calamaro performs for the only time on the tour "La copa rota", a song composed by Benito de Jesús and that became famous with Los Rodríguez. The tour continues through Mexico and Paraguay, closing the 2008 concerts in Asunción before more than 90,000 spectators.

In January 2009, as a result of the tenth anniversary of the Efe Eme magazine, Andrés Calamaro released the unpublished album Nada se perdida, loaded with hitherto unknown songs. Among the songs included are unpublished Post-Salmón (2000-2003), covers by artists such as Bob Marley, Sumo, Moris, and Luis Alberto Spinetta ("Bajan", a true Argentine rock classic), a found recording from the Honesty tour Brutal performing "I can't help falling in love" and finally two live songs taken from his La Lengua Popular tour, the Tangos "Los mareados" and "Jugar con fuego". In the 2009 edition of the Latin Grammys, Calamaro was recognized with the award for Best Vocal Rock Album, for his album La lengua popular.

During the tour, the release of the musician's first anthology, entitled Andrés (incomplete works), would be announced. It includes the best songs from his previous ten years of artistic life, a selection of versions by other musicians, as well as the recording of thirty-six unpublished songs from the period after El Salmón chosen by Calamaro himself for the occasion. The compilation album consists of six CDs (three hits and three previously unreleased and concerts) and two DVDs. Based on this anthology, Calamaro resumes a tour of twenty concerts in Spain, Argentina, Mexico and Chile, in which he returns to interpret forgotten songs, as well as others never played live such as "Por mirarte", "Para seguir", " The look of goodbye”, “A thousand hours”, “Every one of your things”, “My illness” and the unpublished “The dog”.^{[citation required]}

Calamaro concludes the 2009 tour with two concerts in Buenos Aires, on December 12 and 13 at Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires and Luna Park, gathering around 50,000 people. Guests such as Fito Páez, Pedro Aznar, David Lebón, Adrián Dárgelos and Vicentico participate in the concerts. In May 2010, after the bicentennial of Argentina, he performed in Misiones giving a great concert before a crowd from all over the northeast of the country. ^{[citation needed ]}

Today (since 2010)

Andrés Calamaro in the Riviera Room (Madrid), Bohemio Tour 2014.

In June 2010 On the rock was published: with the idea of recording a studio LP with his tour mates, Calamaro invited artists such as Calle 13 (band), El Langui, Diego el Cigala, Bunbury, Niño Josele, Loquillo, Pereza or Jerry González. The album recovers Cambodian songs like "El perro" and new ones like "I miss you." The week of its publication it was placed at number 1 on the sales charts in Spain.On July 23, 2010, he married Julieta Cardinali.The marriage would break up shortly after.

In 2013, Calamaro presented his next record production, entitled Bohemio, which went on sale on September 17. The first single from the album is "Cuando no estás". The song received very good reviews from the public.

After completing a successful tour, in December he released the following singles from the album, which are "Bohemio", "Hostage" and "Plástico Fino".

In the months of October and November 2014, he performed on tour with the Spanish musician Enrique Bunbury giving concerts in various cities in Mexico.

At the end of October 2016, Calamaro announced the release of his album Volumen 11, which went on sale on December 2.

In November 2018, he released his fifteenth studio album, Cargar la Luck, which received critical acclaim and has been compared to his most iconic works such as Brutal Honesty.

In February 2021, he released the song Hong Kong together with C. Tangana, which is included in Tangana's album El Madrileño. It also appears in the official video clip of the song. Later in May 2021, he released the album Dios los cria, where he covers ten of his songs along with other artists: Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Sanz, Milton Nascimento, Raphael, Manolo García, Vicente Amigo, Juanes, Julieta Venegas or Carlos Vives, among others.

Private life

Like other personalities in the world of music, Calamaro has not been exempt from controversy, either due to confrontations with other artists or his statements.

During a recital in 1994 with Los Rodríguez in La Plata, he joked with the public alluding to the possibility of smoking a marijuana joint. drug use, a case that would be resolved with his acquittal in April 2005.

During those same years, he had a confrontation with Charly García for having a close friendship with Mónica García, Calamaro's wife. The rumors of romance between the two angered Calamaro and there was a notorious crossroads of media accusations. The situation inspired Calamaro to write the song "Flaca".

In 2007 he had his daughter Charo Calamaro with Julieta Cardinali, whom he married on July 23, 2010. However, the marriage lasted just five months, before ending with a media separation.

Calamaro is also a fan and defender of bullfighting, both in interviews and on social networks, which has brought him criticism from a sector of the public. On the occasion of the ban on bullfighting in Catalonia in In 2010, during an interview with comedian Andreu Buenafuente, he expressed his disagreement with the measure and read a message in which he renounced his "progressiveness" in protest against the prohibition of this practice. Calamaro has alluded to bullfighting on several occasions in his music, such as in the song Media Verónica (named as a way of executing the throwing of the cape during the bullfight).) or El tercio de los sueños, both included in his album Alta Dirtura.

In April 2019, in the context of the general elections in Spain, he expressed his support for the Vox party. He later deleted the post and offered a statement in which he tried to distance himself from his alleged support for Vox: &#34 "I don't vote in Spain," it said.

Discography

For its outstanding discography, Calamaro (3.o) is considered one of the most outstanding figures of Argentine rock, along with emblems such as Charly García, Fito Páez, Luis Alberto Spinetta and León Gieco. Photo of 1984.

Studio Albums

• Hotel Calamaro (1984)
• cruel life (1985)
• For looking at you (1988)
• Nobody gets out of here alive. (1989)
• High dirt (1997)
• Brutal honesty (1999)
• The salmon (2000)
• The singer (2004)
• Red ink (2006)
• The palace of flowers (2006)
• The popular language (2007)
• On the rock (2010)
• Bohemio (2013)
• Volume 11 (2016)
• Charge the luck (2018)
• God raises them (2021)

Live Albums

• Live in Ayacucho 88 (1994)
• Return (2005)
• Made in Argentina-Made in Spain (2006)
• Two are crowds (2008) with Fito & Fitipaldis
• Midwest Ham (2014)
• Pure blood - DVD (2014)
• Children of the people (2015) with Enrique Bunbury

Compilation Albums

• The album (1988)
• Recordings found, Vol. 1 (1993)
• Recordings found, Vol. 2 (1996)
• Complete (1997)
• Unpublished + rarities + songs (1998)
• Summit works (with the Green Enanitos) (2001)
• The best of Andrés Calamaro (2001)
• Due (2001)
• The best of Andrés Calamaro (includes the successes of Grandparents of nothing) (2001)
• 81-91 Only edited in Spain (2001)
• Nothing is lost (January 2009)
• Incomplete works (2009)
• Salmonalipsis now (2011)
• Summits (2013)
• Romaphonic Sessions with Germán Wiedemer - Recordings found, Vol. 3 (2016)

Collaborations, participations and tributes

• Andrés Calamaro and Charly García - Organ Casiotone in Cheap philosophy and rubber shoes (1990).
• Andrés Calamaro and Sandra and Celeste - Composer in «One time», included in the album Women against women (1990).
• Andrés Calamaro and La Burla - Piano in "We're going to arm boar" (Proa Records/1991)
• Andrés Calamaro with Upa! A very special day voice in "Lejos" (1991).
• Andrés Calamaro and Fabiana Cantilo - "My disease (live)" (1992)
• Andrés Calamaro with Kiko Veneno - "Brown a basket" voice «Lobo López» (1992).
• Andrés Calamaro with Celeste Carballo - "Chocolate English" co-author and second voice «The Chinese» (1993).
• Andrés Calamaro with Vargas Blues Band - "Latin Blues" «Black Amapola» (1994).
• Andrés Calamaro with Claudio Gabis and La Selección - "Convocation I" main voice in "Rock of the lost woman" (1995).
• Andrés Calamaro and Suéter - "Sueter 5" second voice «I miss being» (1995).
• Andrés Calamaro and Los Ronaldos - "I want us to be close." second voice «You only think of yourself» (EMI/1996).
• Andrés Calamaro and Charly García - Co-composition and voice in «I need a goal» for "Say no More" (1996).
• Andrés Calamaro with Vox Dei - "Bible II", participates as second voice, and on guitar and keyboards (1997).
• Andrés Calamaro and Andy Chango - «I'm going to the beach» - Andy Chango (1998)
• Andrés Calamaro and El Tri - "Century End" voice "Shut up or die" (1998).
• Andrés Calamaro with Sabina and Páez - "Intimate enemies" «Better beautiful than anyone» (1998).
• Andrés Calamaro and Coki " The Killer Burritos - Voice in «Joselito» of "My barbecue." (1998).
• Andrés Calamaro and Miscellaneous - "Mariner on Earth Vol. 1: Tribute to Neruda" main voice in «The Bull» (Warner Music, Chile/1999).
• Andrés Calamaro and Emanuel Ortega - «I want» "In hiding" (1999).

• Andrés Calamaro and Cristina and Los Subterráneos - «Pale»
• Andrés Calamaro and El Bosque - I am your father
• Andrés Calamaro and Enrique Bunbury - «Confession»
• Andrés Calamaro and Fito Páez - «A dress and a love»
• Andrés Calamaro with Fito Páez and Charly García - «The Magic Wheel»
• Andrés Calamaro and La Frontera - Drink until you remember
• Andrés Calamaro and La Frontera - Hospital de amor
• Andrés Calamaro and Cabinet Caligari - "No one is going to miss me"
• Andrés Calamaro and Joaquín Sabina - Heart of neon
• Andrés Calamaro and Joaquín Sabina - Viridiana
• Andrés Calamaro and Joaquín Sabina - Pastillas not to dream
• Andrés Calamaro and León Gieco - I forgot the others
• Andrés Calamaro and Loquillo - The magician Merlin
• Andrés Calamaro and Loquillo - The smile of Risi
• Andrés Calamaro and Luca Prodan - Years
• Andrés Calamaro and Moris - «Saturday at night»
• Andrés Calamaro and Pappo - My old
• Andrés Calamaro and Pappo - They will never know
• Andrés Calamaro and Pedro Guerra - Time to laugh
• Andrés Calamaro and Pereza - Amelie
• Andrés Calamaro and Paranoid Ratons - Forever
• Andrés Calamaro and Soledad Pastorutti - "Love of my love"
• Andrés Calamaro and Javier Calamaro - « Colorful letters» in "Quitapenas" (2000).
• Andrés Calamaro and Andy Chango - "The Old Lexatin" and « Very little of me» - The fantastic adventures of Captain Angustia (2001)
• Andrés Calamaro and Fernando Samalea - keyboards in "Metejón" (2001).
• Andrés Calamaro and Coti Sorokin - Second voice «Nothing was a mistake» of "Coti" (2002).
• Andrés Calamaro and Estelares - Current currency (2003)
• Andrés Calamaro and Javier Calamaro - «No names to me» "Kimika" (2003).
• Andrés Calamaro with Los Auténticos Decadentes - "12 alive" Second voice «The guitar '99» (2004).
• Andrés Calamaro and several interpreters - "Version impossible 2 ● The Songs of Thursday" main voice in cover of «I Will Survive», same as previously edited for Unpublished + Rarities + songs (2004).
• Andrés Calamaro and Intoxicados - «Fire» "Another day on planet earth" (2005).
• Andrés Calamaro with Los Auténticos Decadentes - "For me, for you. Reversions (Tributo a Turf)" voice «Step on the side» (2005).
• Andrés Calamaro and Bersuit Vergarabat - «Or you go to Mass...» - "Testosterone" (2005)
• Andrés Calamaro with Marcelo «Cuino» Scornik - "Stop Cuino!" voice "Nena" (2005)
• Andrés Calamaro and Raimundo Amador - "Woe what my ears taste" "Dear beloved." (2005).
• Andrés Calamaro and Javier Limón - "Limon House presents: Lemon" voice «The Song» (2005)
• Andrés Calamaro and La Mona Jiménez - Night: Trilogy 2 (2007)
• Andrés Calamaro with Ariel Rot - « Ashes in the air» in the album "Dúos, trios y otras perversiones" (2007)
• Andrés Calamaro and Indio Solari - «Patient poison» (La Plata/2008)
• Andrés Calamaro and several interpreters - "Dear gee, singing the lion" (Vol. 2), Tribute to Leon Gieco main voice in cover of «Without wanting» (2008).
• Andrés Calamaro and Miscellaneous - "You know how I expected you" (Vol. 1), Tribute to the Fabulous Cadillacs main voice in cover of «Vacuum vessels» (2009).
• Andrés Calamaro with Vicentico - "On the rock" second voice «Unbearably cruel [Puerto Rico Mix] and in "Vacuum vessels (fabulous tribute)" (on the Extra CD) (2010).
• Andrés Calamaro with Calle 13 and Jerry González - "On the rock" second voice «Unbearably cruel» and «Chinese Torture» (On the Extra CD) (2010).
• Andrés Calamaro with Resident - "On the rock" second voice «Unbearably cruel [Puerto Rico Mix] (2010).
• Andrés Calamaro with Pablo Lescano and Vicentico - "On the rock" main voice in «Three Marys [Mix]» (2010).
• Andrés Calamaro and The Neverly Brothers (the brothers Guillermo "Guille" Martín and Fernando Martín) - «Nocturno de Princesa» and "You cannot live from love" "Only or in the company of others" (2010).
• Andrés Calamaro with Loquillo and Urrutia and Bunbury « Black man (version 2009)», «Where are you» and «Crossing Paradise» for "Rock & Roll Star 30 years / 1980-2010" (2009).
• Andrés Calamaro with Gustavo Cerati - Argentina embraces Chile (en vivo) second voice «Crimen» and "Bring me gently" (2010).
• Andrés Calamaro and Javier Calamaro - «This minute» for the album "This minute" (2010).
• Andrés Calamaro with Los Tigres del Norte - "MTV Unplugged: The North Tigers and Friends"voice in «The table of the corner» and "I want to fly with you" (2011).
• Andrés Calamaro and Bersuit Vergarabat - "The revolt" voice "It's just a part" (2012).
• Andrés Calamaro with Draco Rosa - "Life" voice duet in "Black" (2013).
• Andrés Calamaro with El Twanguero - "Argentina Songbook" voice «The october of Saint Lucia» (2013).
• Andrés Calamaro and Javier Calamaro - Voz « Kiss me so much» in "Next life" (2015).
• Andrés Calamaro with Juan Gabriel - "The Duo Vol. 2" second voice «I remember you sweetly» (2015).
• Andrés Calamaro and Ciro Fogliatta " The Blue Makers - "Woman of coal" and «Tomato game» "Live in Barcelona" (played live at the Harlem Jazz Club in 1997) (2016).
• Andrés Calamaro and Los Palmeras - "Asesina" (2019)
• Andrés Calamaro with David Lebón - Due in "Lebon Co." for the item "Stop in the middle of life" (2019).
• Andrés Calamaro and several interpreters - Zoé reversions - «Paula» (2020)
• Andrés Calamaro, Kase O, Zatu - "Who no" (2020)
• Andrés Calamaro and C. Tangana - "Hong Kong" (2021)

Filmography

Actor

• Death Sonata (cortometraje) (1977) by Daniel Postán.
• Buenos Aires - Esquina (1990) by Raúl Perrone.

Musical band

• Living at 17 (1986), dir. Louis Sepúlveda.
• Wild horses (1995), say. Marcelo Piñeyro.

Songs

• Cain and Abel - Sacred Books (2010).

Radius

Awards and nominations

Latin Grammy Awards

Konex Awards

Additional bibliography

• Lezcano, Walter (2018). Different days, the fabulous trilogy of the end of the century of Andrés Calamaro. Gourmet Musical Editions. p. 192. ISBN 978-987-3823-27-5.