Argentine Tango School

Roberto Díaz, Argentine Tango singer and composer.

“Qué querés con ese loro” by Cayetano Puglisi y su Sexteto Típico with Roberto Díaz in vocals, 1929.

“Qué querés con ese loro” by Cayetano Puglisi y su Sexteto Típico with Roberto Díaz in vocals, 1929.

Roberto Díaz, Argentine Tango singer and composer.

Roberto Díaz

Singer and composer (5 April 1900 – 2 December 1961)

One of the so many ideas that arose from Francisco Canaro and that allowed his name to be forever in the history of Tango was when the orchestras —all with only instrumental charts— included a new member: the singer that until then always appeared as soloist.

Then, timidly, the orchestra singers, the estribillistas (the refrain singers) appeared. The tango pieces already included their lyrics but on stage only a few lines of them were sung.

Roberto Díaz was the first vocalist, according to what Canaro himself said in his book of memoirs.

He insisted that with it the orchestra would sound fuller, and would provide a different mood in the recording sessions.

This young pioneer singer had already recorded as a soloist with other lineups, but these outfits played an accompaniment, the vocalist was neither a piece nor another member of them.

Read more about Roberto Díaz at www.todotango.com

Listen and buy:

  • Amazon music

  • iTunes music

  • Spotify

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.

Ver este artículo en español

More Argentine Tango music selected for you:

We have lots more music and history

How to dance to this music?

Cayetano Puglisi y su Sexteto. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

“El africano” by Cayetano Puglisi y su Sexteto Típico, 1929.

Cayetano Puglisi y su Sexteto. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.Cayetano Puglisi

Violinist, leader, and composer.
(January 2, 1902 – November 2, 1968)

We arrive at a very important chapter in the artistic career of this great musician.

We place it in 1928, a period when the sextets blossomed.

This splendid outfit he put together is always remembered with admiration and nostalgia by lovers of good tango.

The orchestra always evidenced a trademark of quality, with a special sort of slow beat full of tango colors and a very hard-to-match richness of nuances. The crisis brought by the lack of work made this group disband. Continue reading at www.todotango.com…

Listen and buy:


Find it at Amazon Music

We have lots more music and history:

Cayetano Puglisi. argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

“Criolla linda” by Cayetano Puglisi y su Sexteto Típico, 1929.

Cayetano Puglisi. argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.Cayetano Puglisi

Violinist, leader and composer

(2 January 1902 – 2 November 1968)

The eldest in a family of three musician brothers, Cayetano Puglisi was born in Messina, a region of Sicily (Italy).

Emilio, a violinist like him, of an uneasy spirit, after enjoying the sweet smell of success in the Buenos Aires orchestras, played in international orchestras, even in the far distant Teheran (capital of Iran). José, instead, from the humblest place in the teatro “Colón” orchestra of Buenos Aires, carried out his career devoted to violoncello, totally apart from tango life.

Cayetano Puglisi arrived in Buenos Aires in 1909. A violin student, he was alumnus of the maestro Pessina, seeming to become a great player of so difficult instrument. In his beginnings, inclined to classical music, after playing a concert at the Teatro Nuevo, the La Prensa journal granted him a scholarship to polish his studies in Europe, a voyage he was unable to make because the World War burst out in 1914.

By those difficult times, the riverside cafés at the neighborhood of La Boca witnessed his early gigs, although his formal memories as for the name of partners lead us to the famous Iglesias barroom on Corrientes Street, lining up a trio with Carlos Marcucci (bandoneon) and Pedro Almirón (piano), the latter replaced by Robledo, none of them was older than 13. It was a trio of kids. Continue reading at www.todotango.com...

Listen and buy:
Download Argentine Tango music fro iTunes Listen on Spotify
We have lots more music and history…

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to learn to dance Tango, you can: