Marciano Cantero, lead vocalist and bass participant of prolific Argentine rock band Los Enanitos Verdes, handed away on Thursday (Sept. 8), simply two weeks after his 62nd birthday on Aug. 25.
Cantero (actual identify Horacio Eduardo Cantero Hernández) was in intensive care after present process surgical procedure as a result of a kidney an infection on Sept. 5, in line with El Tiempo, which additionally revealed that the singer had considered one of his kidneys and a part of his spleen eliminated on the Cuyo Clinic in his hometown Mendoza, Argentina.
The information of his passing was confirmed on the official Enanitos Verdes Instagram account, which merely shared a black ribbon as a public show of grief. A few hours earlier, the account posted a photograph of Cantero with a caption that reads: “As we speak and at all times with you, Marciano,” alongside praying hand emojis.
Cantero, alongside Felipe Staiti (guitar) and Daniel Piccolo (drums), shaped Los Enanitos Verdes in 1979, and have become one of many greatest Latin rock bands of the ‘80s and ‘90s due to timeless hits corresponding to “Lamento Boliviano,” “Luz De Dia,” and “La Muralla Verde.”
The trio obtained two finest Latin rock/different efficiency Grammy nominations for “Nectar” and “Traccion Acustica.” In 2019, reggaeton artists J Balvin and Unhealthy Bunny reeled in Cantero for his or her urban-alternative monitor “Un Peso,” a part of their collaborative album Oasis.
On July 6, 2022, Los Enanitos Verdes kicked off their 17-city U.S. tour, produced by Frias Leisure and Stay Nation, in celebration of their greater than 40-year profession. The tour formally wrapped on Aug. 13 at Orlando’s Home of Blues.
The lineup featured Cantero, Staiti, and Jota Morelli on the drums.

