Carlos Alberto Padilla came out of Medellín in the late 1980s. His debut album '19.95' arrived in 1988, with the title track becoming a kind of quiet classic in Colombia. It was a sparse, haunting ballad that didn't sound quite like anything else at the time.
He worked with folk and pop, but there was often something electronic or experimental in the mix, which could put off some listeners. Later songs like 'Los Sueños' and 'RON' showed he kept writing, moving through different sounds in the 1990s and 2000s without ever quite repeating that initial moment.
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