Cortez was born at 8:00 AM (11:00 GMT) on Monday, 11 March 1940, in
Rancul,
La Pampa Province, Argentina. He began elementary school at the Alberto Williams conservatory at the age of six. He began composing songs at twelve, including "Un cigarrillo, la lluvia y tú". Later he entered Manuel Ignacio Molina de San Rafael Junior High School in Mendoza province. There he continued his studies of music at the Chopin of San Rafael conservatory. At seventeen, Cortez became the singer of the Arizona orchestra, where he was known as
Chiquito García. At eighteen, he went to study in the Social Sciences and Law School of Buenos Aires and sang in bars to help himself with his studies. He died as a result of a gastric hemorrhage at 3:30 PM (13:30 GMT) on Thursday, 4 April 2019, in the city of
Móstoles, in the
Community of Madrid, Spain, at 79 years of age. ==See also==