Eduardo Falú was born in El Galpón, a village near San José de Metán in the province of Salta, in 1923.

[1] 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").

[2] 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.

Largely self-taught, Falú deepened his knowledge of the guitar through the study of the 19th century masters and was trained in harmony and theory by the prominent Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino.

[3] Arguably the creator of Argentina's modern folk song movement, Falú has set over 150 poems to music.