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Desde el alma, music sheet cover. Argentine Tango.

“Desde el alma” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica, 1979.

“Desde el alma” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica, 1979.

Music: Rosita Melo. Lyrics: Víctor Piuma Vélez / Homero Manzi.

The young girl —just fourteen years old— laid her fingers on the black and white keyboard of the piano.

Hardly may she have guessed that the keys she had decided to play would strike the notes for one of the most popular melodies in Buenos Aires and, why not?, in all the world.

One after another, quarter and sixteenth notes were shaping a beautiful romantic melody, while the left hand was playing the no less romantic waltz beat.

Everything was springing from her soul, like one of her teen-age dreams.

Because of that there was no other possible title and she called it, precisely, “Desde el alma”.

It was an ordinary day in 1911 and, time later, the girl held in her hands the first recording of her waltz, made by the Roberto Firpo’s orchestra.

Later came a huge number of renderings committed to record to consecrate its composer, Rosa Clotilde Mele, born in Montevideo on July 9, 1897.

She was widely known by her nom de plume: Rosita Melo.

Read more about “Desde el alma” at www.todotango.com

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
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Ángel D'Agostino & Ángel Vargas, Argentine Tango musicians.

“Sólo compasión” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

“Sólo compasión” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

Angel D'Agostino and Ángel Vargas, Argentine Tango music.

Music: Benjamín Holgado Barrio. Lyrics: Luis Castiñeira.

In the early years of the 30s, Ángel D’Agostino put together his own tango orchestra.

In 1939 Alfredo Attadía joined them as lead bandoneon and arranger.

He had great vocalists.

Among them, the most outstanding one was Ángel Vargas, who became an icon of the orchestra.

D’Agostino was right with the purpose of creating a style of very simple musical conceptions, but with an expressive way of playing, carried out by a qualified nucleus of performers.

But the identification with Angel Vargas determined, over the independent work of each one, the success of a team that managed to succeed at the time of the greatest presence of major Tango figures.

Read more about Angel D’Agostino and Ángel Vargas at www.todotango.com

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

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Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda

Juan Carlos Cobián, pianist, leader and composer of Argentine Tango.

“Shusheta” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1945.

“Shusheta” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1945.

Juan Carlos Cobián, pianist, leader and composer of Argentine Tango.

Juan Carlos Cobián

Pianist, leader, composer and lyricist (31 May 1896 – 10 December 1953)

He was an authentic innovator of Tango, either as player or as composer.

As a pianist, he was the first to fill the bass line with embellishments when the melody rested.

As a composer, Juan Carlos Cobián is, alongside Enrique Delfino, the creator of the so-called tango-romanza.

Since an early age, he was irresistibly attracted by the piano of his house, played by his sister Dolores, when the family was based in Bahía Blanca. In admiration of what the fingers of the little boy managed to get out of the keyboard, Dolores influenced their parents to make him study music.

On December 10, 1953, he passed away. He was 57 years old but had known life as if he were just a century old. «Was there anything to be done on Earth after having known all?» said about him Enrique Cadícamo, his collaborator of always, with whom he composed “Shusheta”.

Read more about Juan Carlos Cobián at www.todotango.com

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

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Horacio Quintana, Argentine Tango singer.

“Solamente ella” by Lucio Demare y su Orquesta Típica with Horacio Quintana in vocals, 1944.

“Solamente ella” by Lucio Demare y su Orquesta Típica with Horacio Quintana in vocals, 1944.

Horacio Quintana, Argentine Tango singer.

Horacio Quintana

Singer and composer (May 30, 1920 – November 15, 2007)

During his tenure with the Lucio Demare orchestra, Horacio Quintana cut 14 recordings and demonstrated his hierarchy as a singer.

He displays the attractive color of his voice, and his excellent quality of interpretation, without exaggerations or unjustified over-dramatizations, with an easy-to-sing phrasing, that is to say, with all that is necessary to sing tango well.

On July 27, 1944 he succeeded in recording for the Odeon label and cut the tango “Solamente ella”.

Read more about Horacio Quintana at www.todotango.com

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

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