Overview
- The ceremony in Rosario on Friday night featured remarks from rector Franco Bartolacci, who framed the honor as settling a long-overdue institutional debt to a native cultural figure.
- Accepting the title, Páez called the distinction a collective recognition and evoked the courage of young musicians who created under Argentina's dictatorship.
- He argued that artistic impulse resists commodification, asserting that artificial intelligence cannot produce singular artists like Spinetta or Liliana Herrero.
- Páez closed the event with a live set reported at 12 songs, including Mariposa Tecknicolor, Yo vengo a ofrecer mi corazón, Caminando por Rosario, and other early Trova Rosarina staples.
- Coverage linked the honor to his active international profile, noting his recent Tiny Desk performance released by NPR during his Páez Tecknicolor Tour.