Charo Bogarín, artistically known as “La Charo,” is a singer-songwriter, actress, journalist, and cultural manager. She was born in Clorinda, Formosa, Argentina, and is the great-great-granddaughter of the Guaraní cacique, Guayraré. She is the daughter of Dora Elena Bernardis and “Pancho” Francisco Javier Bogarín, who was kidnapped and disappeared during the military dictatorship in 1976 at just 29 years old.

La Charo has dedicated her career to investigating the musical folklore of her land, particularly the songs of the indigenous peoples of northern Argentina: the Qom (Toba) ethnic groups of Chaco and Formosa, and the Mbya Guaraní of Misiones. She is the founder of the duo Tonolec, along with composer Diego Pérez, which has fused the ancestral music of Argentina with electronic music since 2000. They have toured internationally and received multiple nominations for the Premios Gardel (the equivalent to the Grammys in Argentina).  In her solo project, La Charo turns her gaze toward the broader sounds of Latin America. Nourished by the vocal traditions of native women from Argentina’s indigenous communities and by her own formal training as an opera singer, the artist brings a unique and powerful sound that is both ancient and modern. She graduated as a journalist specialized in social communication  from the “Private Institute of the Province of Chaco” in 1994 and holds a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management (FLACSO, 2021). Since 2022, she has been the Vice President of the National Institute of Music (INAMU).