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Roberto Caló
Roberto Caló (26 April 1913 – 26 April 1985) was an Argentine pianist, orchestra conductor, composer, and tango singer whose real name was Francisco Caló. Family background He was born at 284 Alberti Street, his parents were José Caló and Natalicia Pantano. He was the third of five brothers, all of them musicians: Miguel, Juan, Salvador, Antonio, and Armando. From a young age, he studied piano and singing. His brother Miguel became the most well-known, as a bandoneonist and conductor. Juan was also a bandoneon player and eventually settled in the United States. Antonio and Armando formed the jazz group Tony-Armand, and Salvador, under the stage name Freddy, settled in Miami. Professional career Just a teenager, he made his debut as a refrain singer in the orchestra led by his brother Juan, which performed on Radio La Nación. In 1933, he debuted as a soloist on Radio Stentor. Later, he performed on Radio Prieto and Radio París. In 1935, Jaime Yankelevich hired him, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area 16.7 million, making it the List of metropolitan areas, twentieth largest metropolitan area in the world. It is known for its preserved eclecticism, eclectic European #Architecture, architecture and rich culture, cultural life. It is a multiculturalism, multicultural city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of Immigration to Argentina, im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Tanturi
Ricardo Tanturi (27 January 1905 – 24 January 1973) (nickname: El caballero del tango) was a piano player, composer and bandleader (tango musical genre) in Argentina during the Golden Age 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 from a combination of Arge .... Tanturi's first instrument was the violin, but he later switched to piano. Tanturi started his career in 1924, playing piano at clubs, festivals and radio. Tanturi's great success came in 1939 when he invited Alberto Castillo into the orchestra and they created 37 recordings. In 1943 Castillo left the orchestra, and Enrique Campos joined in his place. References External links Ricardo Tanturi Discography (El Recodo Tango) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tanturi, Ricardo 1905 births 1973 deaths Argentine tango musicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor De Rosas
Héctor De Rosas (2 October 1931 – 26 July 2015), whose real name was Héctor Ángel González Padilla, was an Argentine singer dedicated to the tango genre with a long career in his country. Early years His father, named Manuel, was a Spanish immigrant who worked for the railroad and was transferred to Tucumán Province, Tucumán, where he met his mother, named Rosa. They got married and returned to Buenos Aires, where De Rosas was born. Much later, after retiring, Manuel worked as a caretaker at the Pedro de Mendoza school-museum, where the painter Benito Quinquela Martín, Quinquela Martín had lived, in the neighborhood of La Boca, across from the Matanza River, Riachuelo River. Professional career Advised by the singer Martha de los Ríos, De Rosas studied singing from the age of 10 to 23 with Professor Ricardo Domínguez. At 15, he won the "male singers" category in a Radio Belgrano contest sponsored by ''Radiolandia'' magazine, which had 12,000 participants. The priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan De Dios Filiberto
Juan de Dios Filiberto (8 March 1885 11 November 1964) was an Argentine violinist, conductor, poet and composer who became prominent in the Argentine tango genre. Life and work He was born Óscar Juan de Dios Filiberti in 1885 to Josefa Roballo, a mestizo descendant of one of the founding fathers of Argentina, Martín Rodríguez, and Juan Filiberti, a Genoese immigrant.El Portal del Tango: Juan de Dios Filiberto Archive from 7 February 2012 (accessed 28 November 2016). An uncle introduced him to at the age of six, though he was forced to leave school at age nine, entering the labor force as a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records (its former longtime rival), Arista Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop music, pop, classical music, classical, rock music, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic music, electronic, Contemporary R&B, R&B, blues, jazz, and country music, country. The label's name is derived from the initials of its now defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). After the RCA Corporation was purchased by General Electric in 1986, RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG); following the merger of BMG and Sony in 2004, RCA Records became a label of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. In 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music, RCA Records became fully ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Rufino
Roberto Rufino (6 January 1922 – 24 June 1999) was an Argentine tango singer and actor. He was active during the genre’s Golden Age of tango and is primarily known for his work with several prominent tango orchestras, particularly that of Carlos Di Sarli. Life Early life Roberto Rufino was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began singing at a young age in 1935 and made his first radio appearance in his early teens. By the late 1930s, he had become involved in the professional tango circuit in Buenos Aires. Career Rufino's professional debut occurred in 1939 when he joined the orchestra of Carlos Di Sarli. He recorded his first track with Di Sarli, ''En un beso la vida'', that same year. His tenure with Di Sarli marked the beginning of his visibility in the tango scene, where he became associated with a number of popular recordings. Throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, Rufino collaborated with several other leading tango orchestras, including those of Aníbal Troilo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azucena Maizani
Azucena Maizani (17 November 1902 – 15 January 1970) was an Argentine tango singer, composer and actress. She was discovered in 1920 by Francisco Canaro and quickly emerged as a major star. Her frequent appearances on stage and radio made her the female counterpart of Carlos Gardel although she did not enjoy as successful a film career as he did, appearing in a handful of films of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema including ''¡Tango!'' (1933) and '' Buenos Aires Sings'' (1947). During many years she gave performances dressed with men's suits or criollo cowboy attire for which she was known by the nickname "Funny-face Cowgirl", given to her by Libertad Lamarque in 1935. Early years Maizani was born in Buenos Aires on 17 November 1902. She lived in the Palermo neighborhood until she was five in which, because it seemed that she had health problems and her parents were very poor, she was taken by some family members to live on Martín García island. On that island located in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Cadícamo
Enrique Domingo Cadícamo ( Luján, Buenos Aires province, July 15, 1900 – Buenos Aires, December 3, 1999) was a prolific Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist. From an initial Symbolist bent, he developed a distinctive, lunfardo-rich style from an early age, and by 1925 he had his first piece, ''Pompas de jabón'', sung by Carlos Gardel. Other notable compositions include ''Madame Ivonne'', ''Che, papusa, oí'', ''Anclado en París'', ''Muñeca brava'', '' Al Mundo le falta un Tornillo'', ''Pa' que bailen los muchachos'' and ''Los mareados'' ("The dizzy ones"), originally titled ''Los dopados'' ("The doped ones"), about a couple that vows to get drunk after realizing their love is over. Career Also prolific as a writer, he published three volumes of lyrical poetry (''Canciones grises'', 1926; ''La luna del bajo fondo'', 1940; and ''Viento que lleva y trae'', 1945), three biographical and historical books (''El debut de Gardel en París'', ''La historia del tango en Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Carlos Cobián
Juan Carlos Cobián (1888–1953) was an Argentine bandleader and 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 from a combination of Arge ... composer. He led the "evolutionary" tendency in tango which was perceived as tending to concert music than to traditional dance music.Jorge Finkielman The Film Industry in Argentina: An Illustrated Cultural History 2004- Page 95 "On one side was the "evolutionary" tendency, started by Juan Carlos Cobian, Osvaldo Fresedo, and Julio De Caro. According to the newspapers from the time it was more concert music than dance music. On the other was the "traditional" " References 1888 births 1942 deaths {{Argentina-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Santos Discépolo
Enrique Santos Discépolo (''Discepolín'') (11 March 1901 – 27 December 1951) was an Argentine tango (music), tango and Milonga (music), milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos like ''Cambalache'' and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel. He was also a filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. Life Discépolo was born in Buenos Aires on 27 March 1901. He was devoted to the arts from an early age and tried acting and theatre writing, with moderate success, before finally dedicating himself to Tango music, tango. Although his decision to write popular music was not unrelated from his previous exchanges with theatre and acting, his elder brother Armando Discépolo, Armando resisted this move and therefore in the beginning things were not easy for Enrique. Armando had taken over his education after his parents died when Enrique was very young. He wrote a few songs including the famous ''Que vachac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo De Angelis
Alfredo De Angelis (2 November 1910, Adrogué — 31 March 1992) was an Argentine musician, most notable as a composer, a pianist, and a director of a tango orchestra during the Grand Era of Argentine tango. De Angelis was born in Adrogué south of Buenos Aires. He started his musical career by accompanying the singer Juan Giliberti, and then joined the orchestra of Anselmo Aieta as a pianist. He continued changing affiliations until 1940, until he started to create his own orchestra in 1940. The orchestra gave the first concert in café Marzotto in Buenos Aires on March 20, 1941, quickly achieved popularity, and was invited for records. De Angelis is noted for choosing good singers. The first singer in De Angelis's orchestra was Floreal Ruiz, and others included Carlos Dante, Julio Martel, Oscar Larroca, Roberto Florio, and Roberto Mancini. De Angelis orchestra usually noted for its simple, more popular style, and concentrated on tango dancing. De Angelis stayed through his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osvaldo Fresedo
Osvaldo Fresedo (May 5, 1897 - November 18, 1984), nicknamed ''El pibe de La Paternal'' ("the kid from La Paternal") was an Argentine songwriter and director of a tango orchestra. He had one of the longest recording careers in tango history, from 1920 to 1980. Career Fresedo was born into a middle-class family in La Paternal, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His mother gave him the first music lessons. While he was still small, his family moved to a working-class neighborhood, and it was there he began his interest in tango. He learned to play the bandoneón and as a teenager joined several of the most famous orchestras of the era of the ''Guardia Vieja'' ("Old Guard"). In 1920 traveled to United States. In Camden, New Jersey he recorded a few albums with a quartet that also included violinist Tito Rocatagliatta and pianist Enrique Pedro Delfino. Back in Buenos Aires, he formed his first orchestra which, from the outset, displayed his trademark style. Although his style evolved somewh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
