The singer had ventured in the 60s with a folk-acoustic style in the pubs and festivals of Buenos Aires, until in the decade she decided to move to El Bolsón, in the midst of the wave of horse racing. At the request of her brother Miguel, in 1982 María José returned from El Bolsón and joined the Buenos Aires musical circuit and two years later she made her recording debut with an album that included León Gieco, David Lebón, Fernando Lupano and Daniel Colombres, among others. , and where he recorded one of his best-known pieces: “Celestial flower under the pillow.”
Only at the beginning of the following decade did she complete her second album, “En Banda” (in whose cast was the drummer Oscar Moro), she did a nude for the local version of Playboy magazine and in 1992 she was arrested and accused of possession and trafficking. of drugs and spent two years and eight months in the Ezeiza prison, an experience that he captured in the book “From prison” (1994).
After regaining his freedom, and turning to a spiritual transformation that he found, at first, in Sai Baba, he continued to publish a series of independent albums such as “Gota a Gota” (1995), “Sai Ram” (1999), “Covers- Bossanova and Jazz” (2000), “Feeling saudades” (2004), “Moments of boleros” (2005) and “Here and now” (2006).
The last work of who liked to define herself as a “rock adventurer” was “Esencia”, from 2011, which was mixed by her son, Gaspar Benegas, guitarist and producer who worked, among others, with Las Manos de Filippi and is currently one of the Air Conditioning Fundamentalists accompanying Carlos Indio Solari. When publishing that album with guitar and voice, she said that she had resorted to “songs with a necessary ecological message and with an important rebellion that always resists”. “I made an album with a feminine sensibility that is not always the most recommendable commercially”, she added about the material with which she tried to detach herself from “functional music and noise, which is what is left over, there is already a lot. With my songs I want to be part of another club”.
I haven’t had much media coverage with my independent albums,” he added, “but this time, and instead of trying to please the market, I wanted to do something that fully represented me. They are songs that are destined for the children, for the couple, for my mother, for certain places and for this land that is so on the edge of the precipice. I like to make music to move people and that has to do with a rock thing that I feel part of”.
His son Gaspar had been alerting from his Instagram account about his mother’s situation by publishing, two weeks ago, the message: “let’s give her strength so that she can recover from her delicate state of health” and six days ago she announced that she was canceling a trip to Rome “for personal reasons (related to my mother’s health).
From the Ministry of Culture of the Nation they pointed out about the death of the artist: “We say goodbye to María José Cantilo who died today at the age of 68. She was a pioneer of our rock in the 80’s. She recorded nine albums and collaborated with many national rock artists, including her brother, Miguel Cantilo”.
Source: Ambito
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