Armando Molina, was a Mexican concert promoter, musician and rock music impresario best remembered for being the music coordinator of the Avandaro Festival in 1971. At the height of La Onda movement, due to his constant appearance on media, excellent music marketing skills for the time with the bands he managed as well as his own and the creation of the well-received character Armandaro Valle de Bravo by actor Eduardo Manzano (a parody of Molina and the jipitecas) in the famous Los Polivoces show, Molina achieved the status of cultural icon in Latin America.