When I was a child, I listened to my mother playing tangos on our piano, beautifully performed. In secondary school, I played accordion in a little band with other pupils playing popular songs. When I finished school I played accordion for 2 or 3 years in the quintet of Italian singer Giuliano Verna. Our repertoire included renowned Italian songs and some songs that I already had composed.

With the earnings from our performances, I paid for flight hours to become a Private Pilot and after several years at the Aeronautics National School I became a Commercial Pilot. For 4 years I flew a twin engine executive plane and after that I began to fly for Aerolineas Argentinas, our national airline, as a co-pilot of the old Douglas DC-3. After 26 years with that airline, I retired in December 1990 as a Capitan of Boeing 707.

Returning to music, many years ago I had listened to the LP titled "Sinfonía de tango" (Tango symphony), that Astor Piazzolla had recorded in France. That was a shock and seemed to me to be new and marvelous music. At that time I was studying Harmony with Maestro Carlos García. One day I showed him a tango that I had composed, and he said to me that Piazzolla had to hear it. García introduced me to Astor and I played for Piazzolla that tango and some others of my own. He invited me to his home and gave me some advice on how to improve them. He insisted that I must continue studying. We became friends and on March 1970 I played for him my "Tango barroco" (Baroque tango), and then he told me that was OK and that now he had nothing to correct. That’s why I always say that on that day I became a composer.

After several years studying Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition and Orchestration, I released several records of my own music with the help of remarkable musicians and technicians who believed in my music and made my projects come true. I keep my eternal gratitude to all of them.