Background
He was born in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in the city of Buenos Aires, though he grew up in Paso del Rey, a city in the Moreno area of Greater Buenos Aires.
He was born in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in the city of Buenos Aires, though he grew up in Paso del Rey, a city in the Moreno area of Greater Buenos Aires.
Author of Taki Ongoy, a symphonic work about Taki Ongoy, a millenarian movement against the Spanish conquest. Many of his songs address what he see as the social problems in Latin American and various human rights issues. He has recorded with various artists, such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Mercedes Sosa, León Gieco, Milton Nascimento, el Cuarteto Zupay, Silvio Rodríguez, and Pablo Milanés, amongst others
He was banned during the military Argentine dictatorship, which started in 1976.
His albums include Taki Ongoy, a conceptual work composed in 1986 in homage to Taki Ongoy, an indigenous movement that arose in the sixteenth century (1560 - 1572) in opposition to the Spanish invasion.