His body could not withstand a sequence of operations after a double heart and lung transplant that was performed in Mendoza on 20 November. With charisma, rhythm and sensuality, the Gypsy had become a central figure in Argentine spectacle. He was 64.



After years of suffering chronic pulmonary emphysema, the idol's body bore no double heart-lung transplant that was performed in Mendoza. Was complicated by an infection that required several operations in succession: his body could not resist. At age 64 died Sandro, one of the central figures of popular music that Argentina was able to conquer with sensuality and charisma to women across the continent.

Thus, with 64, broke one of the central figures of Argentine entertainers. People, sexy, charismatic, romantic, mysterious, won the heart of the "girls" across America, who followed him from his beginnings in the music in the early sixties.

Early on doctors who were treating him did know it was a very difficult day for the health of Gypsy. During the morning had had to operate again by the appearance of a fistula in the left bronchus. And in the evening, during a press conference, remarked that he suffered septic shock and the picture was of great gravity. At night announced the sad news: Sandro had died at 20.40.

Roberto Sanchez, the only son of Vicente and Irma Sanchez Nydia Ocampo was born in the Maternity Sarda on 19 August 1945 and grew up in Valentin Alsina. Released 52 albums, sold 8 million copies, wrote timeless hits as "Give Me Fire", "Rosa, Rosa", "I want to fill me with you", "Penumbra", "That's my friend the cougar," "I" " Wheat Field "," A girl and a guitar "among many others, made 16 films, he sang at Madison Square Garden, won the Latin Grammy Career (2005).

His first performance changed his life. It was an act by Independence Day on July 9, 1957 when at the request of his teacher made his famous imitation of Elvis Presley, for whom he felt a strong attraction. A year after leaving school to help their parents. And so he worked in a butcher's delivery of coolie and a turner.

His start with music was with his friend Henry Irigoytía with whom he formed the duo The Caribs. "I otter with rock. Thanks to rock the streets left, knives and chains, and grabbed a guitar. I left the leather jacket and gangs. The rock saved me. I saved it was perhaps a criminal," Gypsy himself say about his early years later

The explosion came in the sixties, when he adopted the stage name that accompanied him to his final days, the same things their parents had wanted but did not let them put Sandro. "Eating hot donuts Alsina Bridge" was the first single he recorded as Sandro with his first band, The Poodles of Oklahoma, which later become The Fire and made Spanish versions of tracks from the Beatles, Elvis and the Rolling Stones, among others.

Their participation in the "Saturday rolled" Pipo Mancera finished boost its popularity. Along with other friends rockers, hired the legendary venue "The Cave", where they made their presentations.

Over time Sandro was changing its profile by adopting a style more popular romantic ballads and boleros that revolutionized the time. Women always died for their wildness. Over time his records began to be sold throughout America and in the United States. Since then fill stadiums, breaking records, mass visits to his birthday and all sorts of issues were part of his amazing career.

It was 1998 when the disease was discovered he was suffering because of the cigarette and walked away from the stage temporarily. Eleven years later, the disease killed him. Not with his myth, that will live forever.