The death of Carlos Alberto “Indio” Solari, which occurred on Friday, June 5, at the age of 77, provoked one of the most massive demonstrations of popular mourning in recent years in Argentina. The historic leader of Patricio Rey and his Ricotta Redonditos fHe died at his residence in Parque Leloir, in the Buenos Aires district of Ituzaingó.
As determined by the forensic studies ordered by the intervening prosecutor’s office, the musician suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that caused his immediate death. The autopsy ruled out drowning and confirmed that the blow to the head was a consequence of the fall caused by the vascular episode. The artist had been living with Parkinson’s disease for a decade, a diagnosis that he had made public in 2016 and that had kept him from performing in person.
The news broke on Friday morning and quickly became the central topic of the weekend. Thousands of followers began to gather spontaneously in different parts of the country, especially in the Buenos Aires Obelisk, Plaza de Mayo, La Plata, Córdoba, Rosario and Mar del Plata. From musicians and cultural personalities to political leaders from different ideological spaces, but especially from Peronism, they publicly expressed their condolences.
The magnitude of the impact reflected the unique place that Solari had occupied for decades within Argentine popular culture. The artist, together with his bands, managed to build a massive audience without depending on the major media or the traditional structures of the music industry.
A few minutes later, the digital reaction transformed into a massive and unanimous demonstration of mourning on social networks, where the artistic community and their former colleagues broke the silence. The most anticipated and emotional message came from his historic creative partner and guitarist of Los Redonditos de Ricota, Skay Beilinson, who turned to his official Instagram and X accounts to dedicate a poetic farewell to his eternal companion in artistic battles. The musician wrote on his networks: “I carry you in every memory, in every song from yesterday. With immense pain. Have a good trip my dear friend, goodbye. Now you are the light that travels between us and forever.”
Voices from across the cultural and political spectrum were added to this tribute from the great figures of music. “For a lifetime Indian,” he dedicated to him in a post Maximo Kirchner with a photo of the artist and his mother, Cristina Kirchner. The president of the AFA, Claudio Chiqui Tapia He dedicated a few words to him: “A deep pain for your death, dear Indio. Thank you for your art, for representing the People and for transmitting so much through your music. An idol has left us, the history of national rock. On this day and every day, an absolute legend. May you rest in peace.”
Far from these messages of support and distress at the physical disappearance of the artist, the main libertarian digital activists flooded the networks with memes and phrases of disapproval of the past statements of the former singer of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota. from the troll Translator Loves You even the ultraconservative intellectual Nicolas Marquez passing through the legislator Lilia Lemoine and the filmmaker Santiago Oria They questioned the musician on their social media accounts.
“The Kirchnerist businessman Carlos Solari burst. A great merchant in the industry of rebellion, his product never even crossed the borders of neighboring countries nor did he ever innovate any musical genre. He was in effect an original coastal merchant who sold subversion to the masses lacking identity. His lyrics promoted drugs, lumpenage and satanism, while his music was characterized by plebeian rock with a tango tone and its enormous profits were always stored in imperialist dollars. May our Lord have mercy on your soul”, was the farewell message that Nicolas Marquez dedicated to the singer. 
Other trolls emphasized the massive ricotera mass that took place in the afternoon of the same day that the news of Solari’s death became known. Posting images of Plaza de Mayo or the Obelisk, digital activists shot at those attending the artist’s farewell.
However, the messages of grievances and attacks against Indio Solari and his followers remain only at the level of virtuality and the comfort of the keyboard and mouse. A crowd that reached one million people gathered at the Villa Dominico stadium to say goodbye to the rocker this Sunday, in a massive meeting that marked generations of Argentines. Something indelible and permanent in the popular imagination that leaves any malicious virtual message of that day in the background.
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