Background
When a coup deposed Perón in 1955, he and his family took refuge in the embassy of Ecuador, where Roberto Junior. was born.
When a coup deposed Perón in 1955, he and his family took refuge in the embassy of Ecuador, where Roberto Junior. was born.
Pettinato"s father, Roberto Senior, was a high-ranking corrections officer in the administration of Juan Perón. After obtaining a safe conduct and leaving for Ecuador, the family lived in Peru and Chile until allowed to return to Argentina in 1966. The younger Pettinato became involved in the Argentine rock scene of the late 1970s mostly as a journalist with the El Expreso Imaginario monthly magazine, which he directed from 1980 until its demise in 1982.
In parallel, he was the on-and-off saxophonist for the 1980s band Sumo, led by Anglo-Italian Luca Prodan.
After Prodan"s death and the band"s dissolution, he started working in television together with Gerardo Sofovich, co-hosting Louisiana noche del Domingo in the early 1990s. Later on, he gained popularity by hosting Duro de acostar on Telefe, a midnight talk show modeled after David Letterman"son
As an actor, he took part in Primicias, a television series produced by Political-Ka and broadcast by Canal 13. He also hosted television programs Mira quien canta, Todos al diván, Petti en vivo (Canal 9), Un aplauso para el asador (Canal 13), and the ironic Indomables (América television) and Duro de Domar.
In March, of 2009 he began Un Mundo Perfecto, a late-night talk show on (América television).
Following the unexpected ending of Indomables due to a conflict between the production company Powerpoint Engineering and América television, the production renamed and moved the program to Canal 13, where Pettinato (as of October 2006) hosts Duro de Domar. He has hosted since 2004 a FM radio morning show called El Show de la Noticia. He has released a free jazz album named Free Jazz Musica Anticomercial, as Robert Pettinato & Now Free Jazz.