Son of the artist María Teresa Hincapié, he participated in various performances of hers from a very young age and he began doing acting work when he was 6 years old with the theatre group Acto Latino, as well as in different television programs. He studied music at university, specifically at the Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, where he later founded the jazz guitar degree program. He has toured in Europe, Africa and throughout the Americas, and has produced music for theatre, dance, films, television programs and documentaries. Since the death of his mother, he has dedicated himself to developing the María Teresa Hincapié artist residency project in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.