Overview

• His 80th birthday on Aug. 19, 2025 prompted fresh appraisals and guides to the 2018 miniseries Sandro de América on Amazon Prime Video and Google Play, and the documentary Yo, Sandro on INCAA’s Cine.ar Play and select Prime Video catalogs.
• In the early 1960s he formed Los Caniches de Oklahoma, soon renamed Los de Fuego, adapting rock and roll into Spanish with high-energy stagecraft that drew comparisons to Elvis.
• Though he rose to mass fame as a romantic balladeer, his vocal attack and guitar-driven arrangements carried a persistent rock imprint.
• Recognition from the rock community included collaborations with León Gieco, Pappo with Riff, Pedro Aznar and Charly García, Raúl Porchetto, and a 1999 tribute album featuring Divididos, Bersuit Vergarabat, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Attaque 77.
• Coverage revisits his final hospitalization: a Nov. 20, 2009 cardiopulmonary transplant followed by a multi‑resistant infection that led to septic shock and his Jan. 4, 2010 death in Mendoza, as fans maintained a continuous vigil outside the hospital.