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Imagine a Latino-rocker Randy Newman with a bit of Billy Joel thrown in and you’ve about got the style of Argentinean Fito Paez. Besides touring in a rock act that sells out stadiums in Latin America, he also makes movies (Private Lives, about Argentine kids being raised by the thugs who “disappeared” their parents, will soon be released) and squires around his gorgeous wife (movie goddess Cecilia Roth, who starred in Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother). His songs address everything from love to politics to movies—he does a priceless three-minute version of Thelma and Louise—and run the gamut from acerbic to heart-on-sleeve. The ditty that made him famous, “Yo Vengo a Ofrecer Mi Corazon” (“I Come to Offer My Heart”), is also sung occasionally by Argentine diva Mercedes Sosa, who’ll play the KenCen later this month. Mind you, she’s sold out, but you can see Paez at 6 p.m. on the “Millennium Stage,” Kennedy Center, Grand Foyer. Free. (202) 467-4600. (Bob Mondello)