Carlos Núñez Cortés was born October 15, 1942, in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

Argentina

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. He has been a member of Les Luthiers

Les Luthiers

Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries such as Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela. They were formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very...

 since 1969.

In the group, his functions include:

• Creating new instruments (e.g. glamocot).
• Composing (e.g. Las Majas, Teorema de Thales, San Ictícola, Epopeya de Edipo).
• Vocal arrangements (e.g. Conozca el Interior).
• Singing (e.g. Voglio Entrare, most Serenatas, A la Playa con Mariana, etc).
• Playing piano and synths as well as many other instruments (tubófono, recorder, maracas, glamocot, guitar, fiddlecan, etc).

He is also an expert malacologist, owning an extensive collection of sea shells. He published a book on the subject, 100 Caracoles Argentinos, co-written with the naturalist Tito Narosky

Tito Narosky

Tito Narosky is an Argentinian ornithologist and writer. Of the 20 books he has authored or co-authored, Birds of Argentina and Uruguay, a Field Guide is the best known, with over 40,000 copies sold....

. Núñez Cortés holds a degree on biological chemistry.