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Bassist Carlos Rivolta Electrocuted Onstage

By Howell Llewellyn, Madrid
Publication: Billboard Bulletin
Date: Tuesday, April 30 2002
Carlos Rivolta, the Argentine-born bassist of Spanish band Dusminguet, was electrocuted Saturday during a concert in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is thought to have been 28 years old. Xavier Novaes, affairs coordinator of Spanish authors' society SGAE, says the incident occured when Rivolta's bass touched

a metal bar during a performance at a Guadalajara nightspot. A week earlier, the Barcelona band played in front of 100,000 fans at Mexico City's central Zocalo, along with Mexican band Maldita Vecindad and French-Cuban group Sergent Garcia. Novaes says Rivolta's body will be sent to Argentina.

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