Born in 1956 in Lima, from a migrant family from the southern and central regions of the Peruvian Andes. Musician, composer, singer-songwriter, performer, musicologist, researcher and teacher since 1972. He studied composition at the National Conservatory of Music. Creator and director of the TAKI Museum, the first and only museum of Andean and Amazonian musical instruments in Peru, with more than 400 indigenous and mestizo musical instruments in Read more on Last.fm