Lucas chango spasiuk biography

Biography

The passionate accordion player and composer Chango Spasiuk has transformed Chamamé - a marginalised rural dance music - into a highly elaborated artform. His role can be compared to that of his compatriot Astor Piazzolla who added jazz elements and a classical note to the Tango.
Spasiuk was born in 1968 in Misiones, a small province near the Brazilian border in the northeast of Argentina.

Its society is the product of a complex process of fusion and interaction between the disparate elements of its population: the original native communities (Mbyá - guaraní), the Creoles and foreign settlements established at the beginning of the 20th century like Changos two Ukrainian grandparents.
His formative years were spent in a highly stimulating milieu.

Spasiuk's childhood was centred on the carpenter's shop managed by Lucas, his violinist father, and Marcos, an uncle who sang.
The singing duos in red earth patios set aside for musical events, the unrelenting subtropica