, 2004 (self portrait)]] Tav Falco is an American-born musical performer, performance artist, actor, filmmaker, and photographer. He has led the psychedelic rock-and-roll group Tav Falco's Panther Burns (named after a plantation in Mississippi) since 1979. He moved to Europe in the late 1990s and sometimes tours with European musicians in recent incarnations of his Panther Burns group.Born Gustavo Antonio Falco in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he later briefly adopted the last name of his stepfath