VILLA CARLOS PAZ, Argentina, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A 21-year-old up-and-coming rock singer in the popular band the Krebs was electrocuted on stage in northern Argentina.
Agustin Briolini was apparently felled by faulty wiring when he grabbed the microphone at the Teatro del Sol in the city of Villa Carlos Paz during the band's opening number.
Medics tried for an hour to revive him before he was declared dead at a local hospital.
He and the band were on tour to promote their first album.
"It defies belief," Pico Moyano, lead singer of Iceberg, told the Daily Mail. "We are in the 21st century and these sort of things should simply not happen."
Moyano, who also performed that night, said the band was doing "great things."
Bizarrely, Briolini talked about energy on stage before the performance.
"For us, making music is a cyclical process," he said. "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, we in turn except and throw it back again with even more power in our music. It is a cycle with people and art."
Officials have launched an investigation into the accident.
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