Jairo Varela

Jairo is the son of merchant Antonio Varela Pedro Restrepo and writer and poet Teresa de Jesús Martínez Arce. His first contact with music occurred when he was 8 years of age in a "barrio" called Roma de Quibdo where he formed the group "La Timba", essentially composed of musicians playing only the flute, bongos, maracas and güiro.