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Chico Novarro
Argentine singer-songwriter and composer (1933–2023)
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Born | Bernardo Mitnik 4 September 1933 (1933-09-04) Santa Fe, Argentina |
Died | 18 August 2023 (2023-08-19) (aged 89) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Bernardo Mitnik (4 September 1933 – 18 August 2023), best known as Chico Novarro, was an Argentine singer-songwriter, composer, musician, television presenter and actor.
He specialized in tango and bolero compositions.
Life and career
Born in Santa Fe, the son of a Ukrainian shoemaker and a Jewish housewife of Romanian origin, Novarro started studying music at young age; as an adolescent he moved to Córdoba to cure his asthma, and there he began playing drums in a jazz band and in an orchestra.[1] In 1956 he joined the jazz ensemble Agrupación Nuevo Jazz, which also included Gato Barbieri.[1] In 1961, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he briefly joined the jazz band Swing Timers,