Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Tongo and Joby Hernandez lead Incanto’s piano bar Lineup

One of Incanto’s popular weekly acts is ‘Tongo’, a very talented musician who sings in both English and Spanish and plays his own handmade instruments. A former firefighter hailing from Guadalajara, he is currently a local instructor with the Gedisa Guardavidas organization as a private contractor and balances his time between teaching life-saving techniques to fire/rescue personnel and playing music.

Starting at a very young age, Tongo developed an interest in music and surrounded himself with friends who were also musicians. Influenced by Chilean and other Latin groups, he learned to play and sing by emulating them . . .

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