Eduardo Pedro Lombardo, known as Edú and nicknamed Pitufo, is an Uruguayan
musician, composer, and singer. He was born on March 13, 1966, in Montevideo,
Uruguay, and began his musical journey as a teenager in the murga scene. At the
age of 14, he co-founded the children's murga El Firulete in 1980, which later
evolved into Contrafarsa. In the mid-1980s, Edú Lombardo began studying
percussion and joined Falta y Resto in 1984. He served both as a percussionist
and later as the director, leading the group to win first prize at the
Montevideo Carnival in 1988 and 1989. He achieved fu...