Piero de Benedictis, Argentine Italian singer, nationalized in Colombia, with a long musical career and wide recognition worldwide.

In his career, more than five decades, he has dabbled in different genres, from rock, folklore, social music (protest), romantic and child. It has produced more than thirty albums and several of his songs have been re-edited and interpreted by great artists in different languages (Italian, Portuguese, French, German and English).

Piero is a popular troubadour who, through the testimonial song, reflects the reality of the common man, his anxieties and hopes, interprets the feel of Latin American peoples and realize social and political conflicts that marked the history of countries subject to internal wars, the cruel military dictatorships and systematic violations of human rights.

With their first album, "Mi Viejo" published in 1969, sold more than five million copies worldwide and occupied for a long time the first places in the ranking of public acceptance. The song "My old" was recorded by artists as diverse as Vicente Fernandez, Lucho Gatica, Nicola Di Bari, Lucho Barrios, Iva Zanicchi and Altemar Dutra, among others in different versions, languages and musical genres.