Rubén Juárez (5 November 1947 – 31 May 2010) was an

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and singer-songwriter of

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...

. Juárez studied the bandoneón from the age of six. In 1956, he entered the Youth Orchestra of

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. He was born in Ballesteros, in the province of Córdoba on 5 November 1947 and raised in

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(south of

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). His corresponding studies of the guitar during his youth led him to integrate various rock bands into his repertoire. Years later he met the guitarist Héctor Arbello around the time that they both played together with

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. Subsequently, they formed a duo with, and they began to tour around the country. When the bandoneonist

Aníbal Troilo Aníbal Carmelo Troilo (11 July 1914 – 18 May 1975), also known as Pichuco, was an Argentine tango musician. Troilo was a bandoneon player, composer, arranger, and bandleader in Argentina. His orquesta típica was among the most popular with ...

(1914–1975) went to watch him the first time, Rubén asked him to be his artistic godfather. On 2 June 1969 he recorded his first song with the label Odeón ''Para vos, canilla'', and that was an immediate success. After a year, he was recruited by Nicolás Mancera to sing on his TV program ''Sábados Circulares''. Since that time, he had acted in Argentina and abroad, and recorded songs with artists like Armando Pontier,

Charly García Charly García (born Carlos Alberto García, October 23, 1951) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He formed and headlined two of the most popular bands in Argentina's rock history: Sui Generis in the 1970s and Se ...

Pedro Aznar Pedro Aznar (born 23 July 1959) is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has a musical experience in jazz, Argentine folk and rock music and has a successful career as a solo artist. He is well known for giving rock songs a jazz-orient ...

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, Raúl Garello,

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, the guitarist Roberto Grela and José Colángelo. In later years he worked with the ''master'' Raúl Luzzi.

Illness and death

In 2002, he moved with his family to

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(35 km away from Córdoba (city). In 2008, he was diagnosed to prostate cancer which obligated him to undergo to

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sessions every three weeks in the city of Córdoba. In April 2010, it was discovered that the cancer had metastasized to his bones. In the night of 28 May 2010, the actor and broadcaster Coco Sily interrupted his program ''Animales Sueltos'' to ask for ''Actor's House'' to send an ambulance to take him from Villa Carlos Paz to Buenos Aires, since he had suffered a decompensation that forced him to leave his home. He died from prostate cancer on 31 May 2010 in

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in the Güemes Sanatorium.Argentine Tango Singer Ruben Juarez Dies
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