ruguayan guitarist, composer and singer. Passionate devotee of the gaucho genre, he knew how to imprint in his musical compositions the originality and the feeling that distinguished him.

He made most of his pieces on the immortal lines of the Viejo Pancho, from the first, “Charamuscas”, that in 1920 the Uruguayan singer Ignacio Riverol (a relative of the Gardel’s guitarist) recorded for Victor records.

Later he released the hits “Teru, teru, teru”, “Volver p' atrás”, “Tiento sobao”, “Insomnio”, “Como todas”, “Hopa hopa hopa” and “Misterio [b]” which Rosita Quiroga, Alberto Vila and Carlos Gardel recorded.

In his long way of guitar strummer and singer, around 1919 in Buenos Aires he met Gardel and Razzano in a circle of folk singers and since then a close friendship grew up which made possible that the Zorzal Criollo recorded the latter four pieces mentioned above with lyrics by José Alonso y Trelles (Viejo Pancho) and “Querencia” with lyrics by another great Uruguayan poet, Fernán Silva Valdés.

Gardel recorded these five songs after hearing them sung by the author.

He joined temporary duos singing with his countrymen Néstor Feria, Ignacio Riverol, Roberto Fugazot and Humberto Correa.

Chiriff was born in Montevideo on June 13, 1897 and there he died on April 18, 1950.