Eduardo Falú

Eduardo Falú





Eduardo Falú (born July 7, 1923) is a well-known Argentine folk music guitarist and composer.
Eduardo Falú was born in El Galpón, a village near San José de Metán in the province of Salta, Argentina in 1923. His parents, Juan and Fada Falú, were Syrian immigrants. Raised in rural surroundings, he was strongly influenced by the folk traditions of Salta (which remain, in Falú's words, "something lively, dynamic and evolutionary").
Falú was given his first guitar as a gift during childhood, and he began to perform traditional folk tunes of the Argentine Northwest as a troubadour. He formed a duo with César Perdiguero, and became well known in the region during the 1940s. Largely self-taught, Falu deepened his knowledge of the guitar through study of the 19th century masters and was trained in harmony and theory by the prominent Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino.
His increasing renown brought him to Buenos Aires, in 1945, and recorded his first album there, in 1950. Among the volume of collaborations with many of the leading Argentine poets, perhaps the best-known are his compositions for lyrics written by Jaime Dávalos, among which some of the most popular are "Zamba de la Candelaria", "Trago de sombra", and "Canción del jangadero". Falú wrote music for a number of Argentine historical epics, as well, including "Romance de la Muerte de Juan Lavalle" (written by Ernesto Sábato) and "José Hernández" (by Jorge Luis Borges).

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