Author: Marcelo Solis

I was born in Argentina. Through my family and the community that saw my upbringing, I have been intimately involved with the culture of Tango all my life, and have been an Argentine Tango dance performer, choreographer and instructor for over 30 years. I profoundly love Tango dancing, music, and culture, particularly that of the Golden Era. I am a milonguero.

“Cómo se pianta la vida” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1942.

Carlos Viván

Singer, actor, lyricist and composer (15 April 1903 – 16 July 1971)

He had a warm voice, within an alto-tenor range, as it was common then, plus a feature that made his voice unmistakable: his vibrato.

He was a tireless traveler and made numerous tours throughout Latin America, especially Brazil and the United States.

His figure, stunning image, and way of dressing made possible his participation as a mannequin vivant, by that time a fashionable job, at the main shop windows and on the downtown streets. His definitive artistic last name was born without that final “t”.

He was a featured lead actor and singer in theater plays with many companies.

Carlos Viván, besides being a great vocalist, he was the composer of many widespread tangos.

He is remembered as a gentleman, respectful of friendship and loyal towards his friends, who revered and honored woman and had a great sense of humor.

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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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“La milonga que faltaba” by Edgardo Donato y su Orquesta Típica with Horacio Lagos in vocals, 1938.

Edgardo Donato

Violinist, leader, and composer
(April 14, 1897 – February 15, 1963)

He was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Cristóbal, located to the south of the center of the city of Buenos Aires, where today we find this address: Avenida Belgrano 1657. While still a child, with his family, he moved to Montevideo, the capital of the República Oriental del Uruguay.

When he was ten, he started to study music with his father, and later he studied at a conservatory named Franz Liszt. When he was 21, he was ready to work as a professional. He began with his father in the opera music field, wearing a stiff collar and a much more serious look, even though he was a stubborn humorist then and throughout his lifetime, even when he played the violin.

But, soon, he managed to free himself from that yoke and joined -always in Montevideo- the orchestra of the Negro Quevedo, an Argentine bandoneonist, with the peculiarity that the piano was in charge of Enrique Delfino. Continue reading at www.todotango.com…

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Dancing with Lola at milonga Parakultural, Salon Canning, Buenos Aires.

Walking is at the root of our existence

Our head is placed in an upright position, allowing for the development of powerful vision and an extraordinary brain; our arms and hands free from the task of locomotion, set to create new things and reshape the world.

Looking at your partner, making eye contact, is a very effective way to connect.

You walk towards your partner, already listening to the cadence of Tango music, which paces your steps.

Then, you offer your hand, full of sensitivity and dexterity. You embrace your partner: a stream of emotions flow.

You are dancing Tango.

Learn to dance Argentine Tango. Make your life a work of Art.

“El flete” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1936.

“Tango has three things”

Interview to Juan D’Arienzo in 1974.

“Mine was always a tough orchestra, with a very swinging, much nervous, vibrant beat.”

“And it was that way because tango, for me, has three things: beat, impact and nuances. An orchestra ought to have, above all, life. That is why mine lasted more than fifty years.” Continue reading at www.todotango.com…

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Tinta verde. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

“Tinta verde” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Sexteto Típico, 1927.

Agustín Bardi

Violinist, pianist and composer (13 August 1884 – 21 April 1941)

In 1914, Bardi played with Eduardo Arolas. It was at the time that Arolas returned to his artistic career after a frustrating venture to open his own business failed.

They played practically by heart, after sight reading, the tangos that day by day arose from the inspiration of the musicians.

Bardi deliberately set aside compositions that, once released, did not satisfy his demanding taste, and he refused to play them again when his orchestra partners requested it. But Arolas liked one of these tangos very much, and, in the face of Bardi’s excuse of having misplaced it, said: “the one you wrote with green ink (tinta verde)…”

This tango went on to become one of the most well known compositions of Agustín Bardi, whose original edition of the score featured a cover illustrated by Arolas himself.

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