Pic shows: Lead singer of a popular Argentinian band Agustin Briolini has died after faulty wiring in his microphone meant that he got a massive electrical shock to the head.
The lead singer of a popular Argentinian band has died after faulty wiring in his microphone meant that he got a massive electrical shock to the head.
Agustin Briolini, 21, lead singer of the rock band Krebs, had been running through one of the band’s numbers at the Theatre of the Sun (Teatro del Sol) in the city of Villa Carlos Paz, in the Argentine province of Cordoba.
The concert had been to promote the launch of the band’s first album but he didn’t get past the first sold when he moved his mouth towards the microphone, and was given the massive electrical shock that stopped his heart.
Medics that were quickly on the scene spent an hour trying to revive the 21-year-old lead singer, but eventually had to give up and transported the body to hospital where doctors confirmed he was dead.
The other band members drummer Diego Regali and guitarist Gustavo Escober said they couldn’t believe it when they saw him collapse onto the ground and then were later told that actually he was dead.
Pico Moyano, leader of another band called Iceberg there are also performing at the concert, said: “It really defies belief. We are in the 21st century and these sort of things should simply not happen, I find it absolutely incredible. The band were rising fast and had a huge following locally, they were doing some great work.”
Didn’t you just before he died he explained how music was his life and that the band name had come from the word for cellular respiration.
He said: “For us, making music is a cyclical process, the music we make we give to people who get energy as a result, they accept that energy and they transform it, and what they create to be sent back to us which we in turn except and throw it back again with even more power in our music. It is a cycle with people and art.”
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