Bernardo Mitnik (4 September 1933 – 18 August 2023), best known as Chico Novarro, was an Argentine singer-songwriter, composer, musician, television presenter and actor.

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 1961, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he briefly joined the jazz band Swing Timers,[2] and formed the duo Los Navarros with Raúl Bonetto, recording an album for RCA.

[1] Novarro had his breakout as a cast member of the 1962-4 Canal 13 musical show Club del Clan [es], which gave him immediate notoriety and made him a teen idol.

[1][2] Among Novarro's major hits were "Carta de un león a otro", the OTI Festival 1979 winner "Cuenta conmigo", "Algo contigo", "El camaleón", "Cómo".