Elkin was born in Colombia to an Italian father and a Spanish-Colombian mother. He had always loved music and taught himself to play the guitar at the age of 6 and was already composing his own songs at 8. He was so talented that at only 14, he had been discovered by a TV producer and was starring in his own program on Radio Caracas Television in Venezuela. That year he also released his first album, which became #1 in the Latin-American charts and won the Venezuelan Onda Award for Most Promising Artist of the Year.

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