Lidia Borda (born 1966) is an

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tango singer. Lidia Borda whom the ''

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'' described as “the best tango singer of the present” is regarded as the best female voice in the last decades, and she has been widely acclaimed. Lidia has been inspired by the pioneer interpreters of tango. Still, at the same time she is a modern and original interpreter with a classic and unconventional repertoire that rescues beautiful pages of the genre, inexplicably forgotten.

Life

Born in

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, Lidia Borda studied Fine Art, Music and Theatre. Though she had been singing since her adolescence, it was in 1995 that she decided to dedicate herself entirely to singing tango, (those times with her brother -tango guitar player- Luis Borda who actually lives in Germany) of which she has become one of the most important modern interpreters as a “rare bird” that cannot be pigeonholed with the standards in vogue after the 60s, located in a place near the great female tango singers of previous times Borda has toured internationally in

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and

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and played at many of the main festivals around the world, including ''Grec'',

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; ''Festival de Otoño'',

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; ''Citè de la musique'', ''Chaillot'',

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; and '' The Bergen Festival'',

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. In 2002, she represented

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singing in the representation of LatinAmerica at the opening ceremony of the

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in Egypt. In 2005 she was awarded the Konex prize “Merit Diploma” in the category of Female Tango Singer.

Discography

* ''Un ramito de Cedrón''

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''Tal vez será su voz''
(with

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) * ''Entre sueños'' * ''Será una noche'' (with ''La Segunda'') * ''Patio de tango'' (with Brián Chambouleyron -

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) * ''Hecho''

References

External links

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Lidia Borda at Todo Tango
1966 births 20th-century Argentine women singers Argentine tango musicians Living people People from San Martín, Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine women singers {{Argentina-singer-stub