About the artist
from Lake Titicaca via Kyiv to Graz
Born in 1962 in Pomata on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Carlos Escobar Pukara, who belongs to the Aymara people, attended school there in the town of Puno. He studied electrical engineering in Kyiv and subsequently pursued translation studies at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. He lives in Styria and has been the bandleader of the music group Pachakuti since 1991.
