- Roberto Pettinato
Roberto Pettinato (born
Buenos Aires ,December 15 1955 ) is an Argentine musician, journalist and television presenter.Pettinato's father, Roberto Sr., was a high-ranking corrections officer in the administration of
Juan Perón . When a coup deposed Perón in 1955, he was accused of being involved in political repression and was driven out of the country together with his family. Roberto Jr. has maintained that leaving his childhood home in the dark is his earliest memory.Pettinato became involved in the
Argentine rock scene of the late 1970s mostly as a journalist with theExpreso Imaginario monthly magazine, which he directed from 1980 until its demise in 1982. In parallel, he was the on-and-off saxophonist for the 1980s band Sumo, led by Italian-ArgentineLuca Prodan .After Prodan's death and the band's dissolution, he started working in
television together withGerardo Sofovich , co-hosting "La noche del Domingo" in the early 1990s. Later on, he gained popularity by hosting "Duro de acostar" onTelefe , a midnight talk show modeled afterDavid Letterman 's. In the mid-1990s, he attained cult status by co-hosting post-midnight sports and showbiz show "Orsai" (a deformation of the football termoff-side ) with Gonzalo Bonadeo on one of Argentina's many sports cable channels.As an actor, he took part in "Primicias", a television series produced by
Pol-Ka and broadcast by Canal 13.He also hosted TV programs "Mira quien canta", "Todos al diván", "Petti en vivo" (Canal 9), "Un aplauso para el asador" (Canal 13) and the ironic "Indomables" (América TV).
Following the unexpected ending of "Indomables" due to a conflict between the production company PPT and América TV, the production renamed and moved the program to Canal 13, where Pettinato (as of October 2006) hosts "Duro de Domar".
He currently also directs the rock magazine [http://www.revistalamano.com"La Mano"] and hosts since 2004 a successful FM radio morning show called "El Show de la Noticia".
On
22 December 2005 , PresidentNéstor Kirchner named the Argentine correctional officers academy after Pettinato Sr. [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/12/22/um/m-01112236.htm Clarín note (Spanish)]He has released an album called: Free Jazz Musica Anticomercial, which is an album of free jazz, as Robert Pettinato & Now.
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* [http://www.losandes.com.ar/imprimir.asp?nrc=17176 Spanish-language profile]
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