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 founded Músicos Populares Argentinos (MPA) in 1985 and served as Director Nacional de Música from 1989 to 1992. He received the Premio Konex diploma al Mérito in 2005 for being one of the five best male folk singers of the decade. He passed away on August 24, 2011, due to a heart attack.
