In the last few hours, Coti Sorokin He opened his album of musical memories to greet Christian Pity AlvarezThe historic leader of Viejas Locas and Intoxicados, who is awaiting trial for the murder of his neighbor Cristian Díaz, turned 52 this Friday and the Rosario native used a series of previously unpublished photos to greet him. Next to them is Juanse, from Ratones Paranoicos, and a fundamental link in the meeting that, like all of them, has a story behind it.
The author of “Nothing Was a Mistake” uploaded the photos to his Instagram in a joint post with Fernando Szereszevsky, manager of the paranoid leader. “Here are some previously unpublished photos of an afternoon with Pity and Juanse at the El Pie Studio in Buenos Aires. I think it was in 2020. They were taken by Fernando Szereszevsky. Happy birthday Pity. We love you,” Sorokin wrote alongside the album, which was received with joy by her followers.
Despite his good intentions, memory played tricks on the musician, who confused the dates. The snapshots were taken in the aforementioned studio but in mid-April 2018. During the first half of that year, Juanse recorded his solo album, Stéreoma, in El Pie, in which Pity participates in the song “Mismo Camino.” The album was released two months after his arrest following the murder of Christian Diaz.
Szereszevsky, a witness and photographer, told Teleshow the back room of the meeting. “That day Coti also came to spend the afternoon. At one point they started looking at some music equipment that was in the studio and I took photos of them. I passed them to Coti and we had never uploaded them until today,” said the manager, who shared other postcards from those days.
In one they are seen with the father Cesar Scicchitano Taglea priest and musician, who is very close to Pity and collaborated on Juanse’s album on the song “Pastillas.” In another photo, he appears with Álvarez, Juanse and Max Scenna, who co-produced Stéreoma with the singer of Los Ratones. For his part, Juanse also greeted the former Viejas Locas member but with another older photo, in which they are seen singing together.
It should be remembered that the trial against Álvarez for the murder of Cristian Díaz – which occurred in July 2018 – was suspended in March of last year, given that Court No. 29 considered that was not in condition to face the process given his mental state, after being treated at the PRISMA center of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Ezeiza prison.
In their decision, the judges of TOC N°29, Gustavo Goerner, Hugo Daniel Navarro and Juan Maria Ramos Padilla They did not accept the dismissal requested by Álvarez’s defense, nor the request of the plaintiff to detain him and further detain him in the PRISMA, where his condition deteriorated. Thus, They arranged for quarterly reports to be made on their health status and evolution. to determine if he is fit to stand trial. That is, he had to be treated to improve and face a possible sentence against him, in a state of “supervening incapacity.”
In September of last year, it emerged that the musician had left psychiatric treatment which he received by order of the Court at the Eira Foundation in Tortuguitas, which sparked a strong controversy about his whereabouts and situation. The authorities of the Eira Foundation assured that he left the place and is a fugitive. Alvarez’s family, on the other hand, affirmed that he was relocated to another place by decision of his mother.
“He had permission to rehearse given by the judge and this is not a penitentiary”explained Ivo Cutzarida, a member of the foundation’s psychological team. Around that time, Álvarez had reappeared on social media last week, in a photo with former footballer Claudio Turkish Garcia. It was in an initial stage of treatment, but it requires the patient’s commitment, they have to give up because the addiction will resort to anything to survive. Here Pity was monitored, we make him have a routine, like making his bed and cooking, in addition, we encourage him with different workshops to seek his recovery.“Cutzarida added.
However, Claudio Calabresi, lawyer for Alvarez’s mother, says: “Today I spoke with the mother. He is at the Vive Libre clinic, where he has already received treatment in the past. He has been there since he left Eira. His mother took him there herself. Pity is a person with a complex condition.”
Meanwhile, his followers celebrate each appearance of the former Viejas Locas linked to music. Last November, the tango singer Juliet Laso He uploaded a photo with Pity that first generated surprise and immediately found context. Daniel Melingo is reversing Low Tangosthe album he released in 1998, and the saxophonist explained it in the first person: “On Monday, November 6, Mr. Cristian Pity Alvarez recorded four songs for the documentary Low Tangos. Historic day for popular music. Thanks Pity”.
Almost at the end of the year, and without much promotion, “Sigue el Rock N’ Roll” appeared on digital platforms, the song that previews the album Gabriel Prajsnar, bassist of the latest Viejas Locas line-up and who provides Álvarez’s voice and rhythm guitar. “I composed this song, it is new and it will be included in the album I am recording. When I wrote it, I said: ‘It would be great to do it with Cristian.’ I immediately proposed it to him and the possibility of doing it arose. And I think he turned out great,” Prajsnar summarized in dialogue with Teleshow. It is the first that was known, more than five years after “Mismo camino”, the excuse for Coti to publish the photos as a birthday present.
