Luca Prodan
Luca Prodan (17 May 1953 – 22 December 1987) was an
Italian Scottish(mother surname Pollock) musician and singer who rose to fame as the leading vocalist of Sumo, one of the most influential rock bands of Argentina, and is widely considered as one of the country's most important artists. He was the older brother of film actor and composer Andrea Prodan.
In his youth,
his parents sent him to the prestigious Gordonstoun College in Scotland; The same school attended by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales: Prodan left a year before graduating. After that, he moved to London.
I
n 1981, after a heroin crisis in late 1970s London, he moved to the farm of an old Anglo-Argentine friend, Timmy McKern, in the central hills of Córdoba Province, Argentina, seeking peace to try to kick his heroin addiction.
After some time at the farm in the Traslasierra valley,
he settled in Hurlingham (a suburb of Buenos Aires),
where he founded and led Sumo and the Hurlingham Reggae Band.
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