Real name: Gonzalo Grondona

Effective period / Period of releases: 1971

Chilean influential composer, musician (guitar/banjo) and singer (1945 - 2014). He started a solo career in the first 70s with his album "El Payo" (1970). Exiled to Germany in 1973, he returned to Chile in 1983.

Discography:

- 1966: "La conversada / Coplas numéricas" (Single)
- 1970: "El Payo" (LP)
- 1971: "Por aquí, por acá / Carpas y amor" (Single)
- 1971: "Lo que son las cosas, ¿no?" (El Payo Vol. 2) (LP)
- 1973: "Payo Grondona" (LP)
- 1974: "Por Chile" (LP)
- 1976: "Tiempo nuevo" (LP)
- 1984: "Canto de nuevo" (LP)
- 1987: "Cultura de vida" (LP)
- 1992: "Cuarent'on" (CD)
- 2001: "Playa Ancha 1945" (CD)
- 2001: "Canciones y cancionemas" (Compilation) (CD)
- 2007: "Cancionero político" (Compilation) (CD)