Artist Info: Horacio Ferrer

Poet, lyricist, musician, reciter, broadcaster.
D.O.B.- (June 2, 1933)

Horacio Ferrer was born at a Montevidean home impregnated with art. Since early childhood he already wrote poems, marionettes plays and, some time later, milongas which he sang, accompanying himself on guitar, for his neighborhood friends in the cellar of a grocery store. An uncle, his mother's brother, living in Buenos Aires on the west margin of the River Plate, where he often traveled with his parents, was who taught him to play tangos on guitar by ear. [read more...]