Sergio Marchi discovered The Beatles at the age of eleven. Since then, he wanted nothing more than to play the drums and be like Ringo Starr. Eventually, family ties led him to find his place in music journalism in 1983.
Since then, he has alternated practicing journalism in print, radio, television, and online media. In print, he worked at Revista Rock & Pop, Clarín, Rolling Stone, Radar, 3 Puntos, Cosmopolitan, adn (La Nación), Revista Ñ, Revista Veintitrés, Diario Perfil, 10musica.com, El Sitio.com, El Guardián, Crítica de la Argentina, La Mano, and Billboard, among others. On television, he was the journalistic producer for Rockeros (Canal á), created the program Sonar (Canal 7), was a professor in the first edition of Operación Triunfo, and a producer at Rock & Pop TV. He worked at Radio Continental, Nacional, Del Plata, Rivadavia, Rock & Pop, La Red, Supernova, Nostalgie, and Mega. He also teaches courses on rock history and journalism.
To date, he has several published works, including: No digas nada: una vida de Charly García (1997, updated in 2007), Cinta testigo: la radio por dentro (2002), El rock perdido: de los hippies a la cultura chabona (2005, reedited in 2014), Beatlend (2009, co-authored with Fernando Blanco); Pappo: el hombre suburbano (2011), Paredes y puentes: Roger Waters, el cerebro de Pink Floyd (2012) and Room Service: la escandalosa vida de las estrellas de rock (2014). He hosts Kilo vivo on Nacional Rock 93.7 and Futuro imperfecto on Radio UBA. He is a columnist for Román Lejtman on AM Nacional 870 and teaches courses and lectures in Argentina and other countries. He continues to play the drums whenever the opportunity arises.
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