He was, as a performer, a player with a very good technique and a great command of his instrument.

He used to impress his audience playing very elaborated embellishment notes —known in the milieu as «verduras»—.

One way in which he displayed his skills was playing two bandoneons, one with each hand, which were vertically placed on the floor.

As it was customary by that time, the financial situation was difficult so besides attending grade school he had to help his father who was a cobbler in the afternoon and in the evening he had to shout out the sixth edition of the newspapers in the streets.

In spite of the hard times he was little by little collecting cents to buy an accordion with only eight bass notes which he learned to play.

Then he and his brother José —who had a good voice— went out to play serenades around the neighborhood.

He composed around 200 pieces.

But with “Canaro en París” and “Seguime si podés” it would be enough to take him into account.

A musician of the first level, he was definitively influenced by two tango schools of marked individuality and deeply rooted in popular taste, those led by Alfredo Gobbi and Osvaldo Pugliese.

But, this marked canyengue model with an evolved style suitable to dancing could have led him to imitation. But, still, far from that, this excellent instrumentalist honestly thought. So he demonstrated that his trend would be possible between those two esthetic positions, so perfectly evidenced, and it turned out.

In June 1954, he joined Osvaldo Pugliese’s orchestra.

With that orchestra, he premiered one of his best tangos: “Pata ancha”.

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“Any other bandoneonist did not influence me.

My thing was catching the “bellows”, and play, play and study hard, but all alone.

Furthermore, we must consider that I reached the Osvaldo Pugliese Orchestra when I was seventeen. Then, yes, Osvaldo shaped me, polished me, and marked me forever. Pugliese’s orchestra was always an avant-garde team; we were forming our personality in it.

I had to do it because Osvaldo was very exacting. He used to tell me: “You have to study. Study!”

I took it very seriously because I wanted to stand out. Osvaldo insisted: “You have to be interesting as Anibal Troilo is”. He told me about Troilo because he was the great figure of the bandoneon.

See what a challenge this man pushed me into!”

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He was born in the neighborhood of Palermo, in Buenos Aires, to a family home in which music and especially Tango, had a significant value.

In late 1943, a problematic situation occurred to Oscar Herrero when the unforgettable Alfredo Gobbi summoned him to join his aggregation when accepting the proposal from Osvaldo Pugliese’s orchestra.

Herrero’s attitude when joining Pugliese would make Gobbi very angry. And they reconciled many years later.

But he was right in his choice because he had a twenty-five-year tenure in the orchestra.

It is important to highlight his creative capacity, showed in works like “Nochero soy”.

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In 1921 Arolas returned from Europe and remained in Uruguay.

Possibly, this is the year in which he composed what is considered his masterpiece: “La Cachila”.

It has everything.

After an intense first part, of incomparable beauty, comes a second part with vibrant renovating rhythms, piercing, rich, and tearing.

That is the way it was interpreted by Osvaldo Pugliese.

It had become one of the classics of the genre, of a permanent presence in the repertoire of orchestras of all times.