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Niño Gutiérre is the musical project of Uruguayan singer-songwriter Agustín Rodríguez, born in Tacuarembó and currently based in Montevideo. His songs live somewhere among traditional milonga, indie songwriting, lo-fi textures and an anti-nostalgic rural memory.

Coming from the north of Uruguay, Niño Gutiérre writes from a place where the countryside is a living, strange and sometimes wounded landscape. Breaking away from folkloric decoration, his music carries the pulse of the milonga and the sound of nylon-string guitars, while also embracing electric instruments, home recordings, pop structures and a fragile, handmade atmosphere.

The project began as a solo act — voice and guitar — and gradually expanded into a band format with two guitars, bass, and percussion. Across his recordings, including Tres Milongas, Dos Caminos, Una Guitarra and Hoy cerré temprano, Gutiérre has built a personal universe where melancholy, humor, everyday life and rural imagery coexist.

His lyrics keep circling back to the same places: small towns, family ghosts, empty roads, animals, old laws, work. That constant pull in a life between the countryside and the city.

In recent years, Niño Gutiérre has become part of a small but growing movement of Uruguayan artists reimagining folk traditions through indie and contemporary songwriting. His approach is to expand milonga, avoiding using it as something fixed in the past. His work lets it mutate: sometimes intimate, sometimes electric, sometimes almost ghostly.

His current live cycle, Código Rural, takes this universe even further. Presented as a series of monthly concerts, the project borrows its name from Uruguay’s historical Rural Code and turns each show into a chapter. With guest artists, a recurring band and a changing repertoire, Código Rural works like a serialized book: one section at a time, one night at a time.

Niño Gutiérre’s music belongs to a borderland: between rural tradition and urban life, between folk song and indie experimentation. Something old that refuses to disappear and something new that has not yet found a name.

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