MANAGER OF ROCK BAND KAMIKAZE PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 56
7/2/1962 – 9/3/2018
Alejandro Avino went on vacations with his
family to Viña Del Mar in Chile three weeks ago. Avino had a heart stroke and
was immediately hospitalized for treatment in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at
the Naval Hospital.
Alejandro was in a medical induced coma during
two weeks while awaiting cardiac surgery. He was on the surgery table for
several hours on March 7th, and although the procedure was successful;
an acute renal failure occurred. Doctors and nurses did their best to revert
the kidney failure with dialysis but a septic shock finished the battle on
Friday, March 9th, 2018.
Alejandro Avino was an amazing human being,
a music fan and singer with a special passion for Rock and Roll and had such a unique
talent for music management.
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| KAMIKAZE |
He was
the manager of well known rock band “Kamikaze”
in 1992; and worked very hard for the band’s third album release which was presented
in a Buenos Aires Theatre, a sold out gig, amongst some other live shows on TV,
press conferences and radio interviews plus touring. Alejandro Avino was also the manager of rock band “La Nave”.
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| LA NAVE |
On a more personal note, I
met Alejandro Avino 28 years ago. We
were good friends and shared the same passion for rock music. I witnessed the
stressful rock managing work and saw him exhausted many times, but he kept
going and going.
In 1993 my daughter was born
and he was the godfather. I have no words to express how we feel…
I want to thank journalist Claudia Pizarro from Valparaiso Chile who helped us in
desperate times when blood donors were needed for the open heart surgery. She
quickly made the blood donor call public. Thanks so much Claudia, it means a
lot.
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| Horacio Pinasco - Enrique Gómez Yafal |
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| Martin Knye - Daniel Telis |
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| Jorge Cimino Patón |
Alejandro, have a nice trip, rest easy man.
