Francisco Ruiz Paris was a playwright and artistic director.

Of Spanish origin, he was already doing something in the theater there in his land, a vocation to which he gave himself almost entirely in Buenos Aires since he arrived, back in 1908, working as an actor in its main stages.

Almost all the theatrical authors of that time wrote the songs of his works and he did not escape from that modality.

He was born on Elba, the Italian Mediterranean island between Corsica and Tuscany, where Napoleon was confined in 1814.

When he was 12 years old, his parents set out on the road to America, arriving at the port of Buenos Aires on April 27, 1920.

His embedding in the New World started on Maciel Island, along with immigrants, adventurers, port and construction workers, and the underworld substrates who showed off their “cortes y quebradas”.

Hard, brave years, even more so for a little boy who did not speak the language and suddenly ran into his father’s sudden blindness, for which he had to go out to work.

Although he dropped out of school, he never stopped reading until his last days, and this made it easier for him to use the language, the porteño idioms, and the early discovery of the nascent tango.

At the age of 16 he meets the famous Juan Maglio and contributes some verses to which Pacho puts music and thus “Tango argentino” was born.

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Writer, poet and playwright, Carmelo Volpe was born in Buenos Aires on July 5, 1909 and died on March 18, 1967.

Author of the lyrics of well-known musical pieces such as “A una mujer”, a waltz with music by Horacio Salgán; “Cortada de San Ignacio” milonga with music by Horacio Salgán; “Moreno de los morenos” with music by Enrique Maciel, among many others.

In 1940 he was awarded by Radio Belgrano for his work “El intruso”, which was performed in the Modern Theater of this capital by the company of Iris Marga under the direction of Alberto Ballerini.

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A strange title was the only one that the orchestra leader Enrique Rodríguez included in his repertoire, sung by Armando Moreno, on March 20, 1941: “Nyanzas y Malevos”.

In his book Entre cortes y quebradas, published in Montevideo in 1948, in the chapter VII Día de Reyes, he comments about the party of candombes and other jubilees held by the negroes that were divided in groups called “nations”, each one in charge of a chief.

These differentiated groups were distinguished for their names, they were The Cabindas, The Congo, The Benguelas and among others, also The Nyanzas and The Malevos, hence the title.

He was an essentially popular artist, because of his repertoire and because of the attraction he drew on the public, but that condition didn’t mean that he was a smaller interpreter, just the opposite, he was a very good singer.

He tried everything, he sang anything, but when we listen to him performing tangos, his tenor phrasing had a good intonation and he used his mezza voce.

In spite of the jolly mood of the orchestra that accompanied him for almost all his career, he was a neat singer with good taste.

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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!

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