Poet, performer and lyricist, Fernando Noy is a cult figure of the Buenos Aires underground. He was born in a small town in Patagonia and settled in Buenos Aires in his paternal grandmother’s house to complete his secondary studies. He participated in the horse racing of the sixties, of the legendary Di Tella in the times of love and peace; and he had to go into exile in San Salvador de Bahía moments before the Military Coup of 1976. That destiny kept him safe and connected him with the tropicalia movement, the Bahian carnival, Afro-descendant traditions and cultural diversity. He returned to Buenos Aires when democratic recovery was on the horizon and led the countercultural movement of the 80s – or the “engrudo” as he prefers to call it – resisting the advent of HIV-AIDS that “like an atomic bomb against Eros, stalked our community.” His books Peregrinaciones profanas (2018), Historia del underground (2015) and Te lo Juro por Batato, oral biography of Batato Barea (2001) – dedicated to the legendary transvestite-literary clown who died early due to AIDS in 1991 – bring together the memory of those years that passed with the speed and colorful magic of a hummingbird, like a phoenix, in the endless nights of Cemento, Parakultural, Rojas, “and so on, as essential as it is also innumerable.” His work was translated into several languages and appears in anthologies along with great poets from all latitudes. He also acted in cinema with his friend María Luisa Bemberg, in Camila (1984) and Yo la mejor de todos (1990); later The Lady Returns (1996) by Jorge Polaco and The Angel (2018) by Luis Ortega. He composed lyrics later set to music by Egle Martin, Fabiana Cantilo, among others. His latest book of poems was recently published Postales alucinadas Salta el Pesca, 2023).