Luis Ianes was born in San Juan, Argentina. He started playing music at the age of 14 as a self-taught singer-guitarist playing rock, pop and popular songs. He later attended the local conservatory before moving to the US in 1995 where he completed a BM in Classical Guitar at CCM (College Conservatory of Music) at the University of Cincinnati. He started graduate studies on guitar and composition, studying with Clare Callahan, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and later in New York with Sylvie Courvoisier and Brandon Ross. He lived in New York since 2003 writing, improvising, teaching and performing for over a decade, being part of original and contemporary musical projects as Parias Ensemble, Otra Gente, Interior and Trans-Atlantic, among other groups and musical adventures. He currently resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is a teacher at EMC and is an active part of the scene as a performer and recording composer/improviser guitarist.