CHARLY GARCIA

Carlos Alberto García was born in the city of Buenos

Aires, on October 23, 1951, into an upper-middle-class
family, being the eldest son of Carmen Moreno and
Carlos Jaime García Lange, a businessman who owned
the first Formica factory in Argentina. The family was
also made up of three brothers: Enrique, Daniel and
Josi. The mother dedicated herself to the care and
education of her children, with the help of professional
nannies. Each son had his own room. The family home
was a large apartment located on the fifth floor of Calle
José María Moreno 63, in the heart of the Caballito neighborhood and ten blocks
from Parque Centenario, where he used to go to draw dinosaurs at the Argentine
Museum of Natural Sciences. Dinosaurs, planets and Greek myths were the three
topics that Charly was excited about when he was a boy. The family also had a
country house for the weekend, with a pool, in the town of Paso del Rey.
In 1958 he began his primary studies at public school No. 3, "Primera Junta",
located two blocks from his house, in front of Parque Rivadavia. In 1959 the
economic situation of the family entered into a crisis, when the factory closed,
which led to the subsequent loss of most of the family properties, including the
house on José María Moreno street and the farmhouse in Paso del Rey .25 The
Garcías then had to move to a rented apartment, located on Darregueyra and
Paraguay streets, in what was then the Palermo Viejo neighborhood.
His father then began working as a physics and mathematics teacher, and his
mother began working as a producer of radio and later television programs
dedicated to tango and Argentine folklore, which was experiencing what was
called "the folklore boom". Due to her work, it became common for her mother
to invite prominent folklore musicians to the house, in which "Carlitos" played
the piano. The family's financial situation improved and they moved to an
apartment located at Vidt 1955 9º “B”, between Charcas and Güemes, in
Palermo, where the musician lived until 1972 when he went to live with María
Rosa Yorio in a nearby pension. The photos included in the Life album are
taken nearby. As both parents had to go out to work, Carlitos was sent to finish
elementary school at the Aeronáutica Argentina school, at 400 Quilmes Street,
in the Pompeya neighborhood, because he had double schooling.