Argentine rock idol Charly García and the former leader of the British group The Police, Sting, launched this Thursday the musical collaboration ‘In the city’.
“This collaboration came about naturally, when we met in the dressing room before his show,” said the Argentine musician in statements published by Sony Music, in reference to Sting’s most recent visit to Buenos Aires, last February.
The song, a composition in English by the Argentine musician recorded in chorus with Sting, is now available on vinyl and will be available on digital platforms starting today at 21:00 local time (00:00 GMT).
The Argentine musician declared himself a “great admirer” of Sting’s sound and way of composing: “I was thrilled to hear him in my song”.
For his part, the English icon said: “It’s an honor to sing with Charly, so it was easy to sing with enthusiasm and from the heart. It was fun to arrange and combine the harmonies. They served the song well, but they were also a fun musical message for him.”
The guitars are played by Dominic Miller, an Argentine musician who is part of Sting’s band, and the percussion is by Diego López de Arcaute, Juana Molina’s drummer.
Charly García’s voice was recorded in Buenos Aires, while Sting and Miller recorded at the Permanent Waves studio in Miami (FL, USA).
The track was mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, the same engineer behind “Clics Modernos” and most of Garcia’s solo albums.
Throughout his career, Sting pushed the boundaries of musical innovation, with songs such as ‘Roxane’, ‘Message in a Bottle’, ‘Walking on the Moon’, ‘So Lonely’, ‘Englishman in New York’ and ‘Every Breath you Take’. As the lead singer and songwriter of the group The Police, he won seventeen Grammy Awards and sold 100 million albums worldwide.
In 1988, Sting and Charly García shared the stage on Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now tour.
García, author of historic songs such as ‘Demoliendo hoteles’, ‘Rezo por vos’ and ‘Nos siguen pegando abajo’, has dozens of studio albums behind him, among them fundamental pieces of Latin American rock such as ‘Clics modernos’ (1983) and ‘Say No More’ (1996).
Last month, reported Agencia EFE, the Argentine musician was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), which noted that “Charly García was a key figure in the Argentine, Latin American and Hispanic rock movement”.
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