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Graciela Susana Ambrosio (born 22 January 1953), known as simply Graciela Susana ( ja, グラシエラ・スサーナ), is an Argentinian tango singer who achieved success in Japan in the 1970s.


Biography

Graciela Susana was born on 22 January 1953 in Buenos Aires. Her father, Ricardo Ernesto Ambrosio, was a musician who sang and played piano in an orchestra, and she grew up immersed in music. When she was a child, she performed as a folk duo with her sister Cristina. In the late 1960s, she began to sing tango as a soloist, accompanying herself on guitar. Among her teachers were such renowned guitarists as Kelo Palacios and Roberto Lara. In 1971, at the age of 18, she was discovered by Japanese singer , who together with his manager was in the audience when she performed at the famous tango bar . She then travelled to Japan where she became a successful recording artist for Toshiba-EMI. Her most commercially successful album is ''Adoro, La reine de Saba'' released in 1973. It was a long-lasting hit, staying in the
Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...
Top 100 for over 220 weeks and selling over 1 million copies.


See also

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List of best-selling albums of the 1970s (Japan) The following list indicates the best-selling albums from 1970 to 1979 on the Japanese Oricon chart. It is based on cumulative sales figures of two formats (on vinyl, and audio cassette). Albums References {{DEFAULTSORT:Best-selling albums of ...


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