Andrés Vargas Pinedo

Andrés Vargas Pinedo is an prominent composer of Amazonian popular music from Peru. He is blind, and has excelled as a player of the quena and the violin. He was born in the city of Yurimaguas but he developed as an artist in Lima, for thirty years he has worked as a traveling musician on a street in the San Isidro district of Lima. Throughout his career, he has formed and joined various popular music groups: Conjunto típico Corazón de la Selva and Los Pihuichos de la selva, active between 1965 and 1974, and which helped define the sound of Amazonian popular music. Los Guacamayos (1971), Los Selváticos (1971), and Los Mensajeros de la Selva (1979-2010)