Santiago Moreno Charpentier (, , on September 23, 1981), more known as "Chano", is a singer and musical Argentine composer. The prominence reached as the leader of the band pop rock, So Biónica, which composes, between others, together with his minor brother, the bassist Gonzalo Brown "Bambi" Charpentier. 2002-2016: Tan Bionic Since its formation in 2002, the band consists of Chano Moreno Charpentier (voice), Sebastián Seoane (guitar), Bambi Moreno Charpentier (bass) and Diego Lichtenstein (drums).

The band has released four studio albums Songs of Hurricane (2007), Obsession (2011), Destinology (2013) and Hello world (2015) to which is added their debut EP Wonderful nights (2005). The last two editions, Obsesionario and Destinología, reached the platinum album award, selling both more than 100 thousand copies.

In 2012, Tan Bionica received two prizes Carlos Gardel (Best Pop Artist Album and Best New Artist Album) by CAPIF, and the Cadena 40 Principales Spain awarded him the "Best Latin Artist" award. Also, was nominated to the Latin Grammys and received distinctions of the 40 Main Mexico, MTV Europe, Rolling Stone, Bugler and Nickelodeon.

With the "Destinological Tour", the band has already visited twenty-one provinces and five countries, playing for more than 400 thousand spectators.

In social networks, Tan Bionica has set itself up as a record band: over 800 000 of Me Like on Facebook, 300 thousand followers on Twitter and over 50 000 000 hits on YouTube.

Birth As background, the first version of Tan Bionica was called Bionica and was born in the late 90's in the neighborhood of San Isidro, North Zone of the Province of Buenos Aires. His first themes related to the adolescent stage that passed the band, sounded in private parties of schools of that neighborhood, as well as in Punta del Este and other spas. Between the hits of that first time they stand out "Adolescent" and "Boquitas Painted".

So Bionic with his current formation came to light in early 2002. Santiago «Chano» Moreno Charpentier (voice), Sebastián «Seby» Seoane (guitar) and Gonzalo «Bambi» Moreno Charpentier (bass), Chano's brother, shared other groups And musical projects, and play together ever since. In February of 2003, with the inclusion of Diego "Diega" Lichtenstein (battery), is finished to form the band. In 2007 they released their debut album, Hurricane Songs. With the release of the album Obsesionario (2010), and its first single, "Ella", the group became the great revelation of the year.

Then followed "Beautiful", "The duel" and "Obsesionario in La Mayor", the broadcasting cuts that kept Tan Biónica in the radio tops of Chile, making the band take their music to countries such as Spain, Mexico, Venezuela , Paraguay, Uruguay and France. For their part, video clips of those cuts reached the top positions in the main rankings of local music channels and put the band at the forefront of technology use, being the first Latin American band to use 360 ° and 3D resources in a music video.

In June of 2012, the band dismissed the Obsesionario Tour, closing a cycle of great importance in their careers. Between the concerts of the tour, with more than 100 concerts in different countries and cities, you can highlight the visits to Mexico, France and Portugal (representing the Argentine Republic in the Rock in Rio 2012, held in the city of Lisbon). The band closed this successful cycle with three shows performed at the Estadio Luna Park in the City of Buenos Aires, concluding their tour.

Following the success of the song "Magic City" (released on November 19, 2012), in May 2013 Destinology is launched for sale, with which they travel throughout the country through the so-called Destiny Tour.

Other participations Apart from being the voice of Tan Bionica, Chano also had participations in other discs of different bands. He recorded along with Hell 18 the theme "Short Film" from his album. There is no room to doubt, along with Los Gelderos del Tiempo recorded the song "Marina del Rey" from the album Freedom Foam, along with Mancha de Rolando recorded the theme "Los libres" Of the homonymous album, along with La Ciudad Bajo la Niebla recorded the song "Eterno noche azul" from the album Salir a matar, along with Juan Rosasco in band recorded the song "Mi patio" from the album Cuentos para coleccionar, and next to Poncho recorded the Theme "A good decision" of the disc Carnival. He helped with the composition of the lyrics of the songs of on the album La revuelta and recorded a solo song with the collaboration of Cachorro López for the soap opera Graduados, a subject that bore the same name as the program.

She participated as a guest in some concerts of bands like She's so charged, Bersuit Vergarabat, , Miranda !, La Mancha de Rolando, Virus, Moderatto, Fito Páez and Coti.

He participated in television in the series Widows and children of rock and roll where he is interviewed in "Z-Rock" and at one point his character crosses with "Vera", a character played by Celeste Cid (his ex-girlfriend) .

Accident in 2015 On August 5, 2015, Chano starred in a traffic accident. While driving a Dodge Ram van under the influence of alcohol and drugs, loses control and begins to hit at least eight cars that were parked on the spot . He continues to carry out dangerous maneuvers and drags a car and crashes the door of a house. Since it is impossible to stop him, in a moment the neighbors manage to get him out of the van and begin to beat him. After the accident, the lawyers of the Chano claimed that the accident was the result of a flight of an attempted robbery and then lost control Provoking the collisions. months ago had had an accident of similar characteristics in Jujuy. "Chano" collided in March 2016 against the trailer of a truck at kilometer 49 of route 3 at the height of the town of Virrey del Pino.