The acoustic duo was composed of Eduardo Alfredo Fazio and Héctor Luis Ayala, both on guitar and vocals. Ayala had begun to play rock music touched by the images that came from the
Woodstock Festival in 1969. They debuted in 1972 with the
conceptual work entitled
Vida y vida de Sebastián (
Life and life of Sebastian), which was written in an
operatic format and narrated the life of this character from birth. Their second studio album
Mi cuarto (
My room) which followed in 1973, was the most successful of the duo and has become a classic of the seventies. Among the best known songs from the album are "Los juguetes y los niños" ("Toys and children") and "Mi cuarto" ("My room"). From that unexpected event, the duo gained notoriety at the national level and gave way to other albums, such as
Vivencia (1975), which contains the famous song "Pupitre marrón" ("Brown School Desk"), a classic for decades sung tirelessly by groups of
secondary school students. That LP also contained the song "Mamá probeta" ("Test tube mom"), a topic that criticised the then incipient trials of
in vitro fertilization. Towards the end of the seventies they released
Azules de otoño (
Autumn blues) on CBS (Sony). In 1980 they published a new conceptual work involving musicians such as Oscar Cardozo Ocampo, Machi Rufino and Diego Rapoport (
Spinetta Jade), among others. On that release Ayala and Fazio included "Curiosa Noche" ("Curious night"), a song that was the musical curtain of the radio program Flecha Juventud (Arrow Youth), presented by
Juan Alberto Badía. Then in 1981 they took out a conceptual work of strong
spiritual content, which earned them a special mention from the
Argentine episcopate - during the
Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) -:
Los siete pecados capitales (
The seven deadly sins), where they played numerous session musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra. After that, with the return of democracy, they entered the studios again to make their tenth album
Pare y escuche (
Stop and listen) (1983). Two years after the duo disbanded in 1984, Ayala settled in the city of
Los Angeles (United States), where he wrote music for the Warner Chappell label. After converting to
evangelism and recording
Christian music, Ayala returned to Argentina at the beginning of the millennium reuniting with Fazio to make a series of live performances on stages in Greater Buenos Aires. The gigs were recorded for a live album,
En vivo, which was released in 2005. That same year Ayala recorded a tango album, in homage to his father's music. Hector Ayala died at age 72 on July 16, 2016, in Buenos Aires, after a long battle with
Parkinson's disease. ==Discography==