Juan Enrique Farías Gómez, known as Chango Farias Gomez, was born on December
19, 1937, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a musician, composer, and singer
who began his musical career at age 16 with the group Los Musiqueros and formed
Los Huanca Hua in 1960, which revolutionized Argentine folk music through
complex vocal arrangements and polifonía. Farias Gomez left Los Huanca Hua in
1966 to form Grupo Vocal Argentino and contributed to the Misa Criolla by Ariel
Ramírez. Farias Gomez released his album, Contraflor al resto, in 1983 with
Marián Farías Gómez and Manolo Juárez. He ...