Fernando Pedro Samalea is an Argentine drummer and bandoneonist born November
24, 1963, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Samalea began studying percussion with
Jorge Orlando at age 8 and joined Alberto Lucas’s quintet at age 15. He entered
the national music scene in 1983 with Metrópoli and co-founded Clap in 1984.
During the 1980s, Samalea recorded drums on Andrés Calamaro’s Vida cruel (1985)
and Fabiana Cantilo’s Detectives (1985) before joining Charly García’s backing
band Las Ligas in late 1985, contributing to albums including Parte de la
religión (1987), Lo que vendrá (1988), an...