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Singer / Songwriter
A.k.a. Polo Montañez
Polo Montañez (June 5, 1955 - November 26, 2002) was a Cuban singer and songwriter.Montañez was born Fernando Borrego Linares in Sierra del Rosario, Pinar del Río, in a farm known as El Brujito. At an early age he worked various jobs including driving a tractor, milking cows, making coal, assisting on the family farm, and as a lumberjack. In his spare time, Montañez would go from house to house singing and later began to sing in local parties and family gatherings.He was a complete muraco who was the master of his own demise when he insisted on driving drunk.