Argentine Tango School

Sebastian Piana, Argentine Tango musician and composer.

“Tango (Voz De Tango)” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1942.

“Tango (Voz De Tango)” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1942.

Sebastian Piana, Argentine Tango musician and composer.

Sebastián Piana

Pianist, leader, and composer (26 November 1903 – 17 July 1994)

Among the artists with a very long career in our popular music, he had stood out by the hierarchy and the sustained inventiveness of his oeuvre as a composer of unforgettable classics.

You only need to listen to his works to appraise his talent, his heart of Buenos Aires man, and the noble guarantee of his inspiration.

A figure of the Boedo school, which tended to renew and improve the popular aesthetics around 1930, he shared with them the commitment to a movement that forced all the authors to selection and refinement.

With Homero Manzi, especially, he achieved what till then seemed to be impossible: finding a new path for an old genre known as milonga.

His output, as a whole, places him at the level of the major creators of our music.

Read more about Sebastian Piana at www.todotango.com

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  • 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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Enrique Cadícamo, Argentine Tango lyricist and composer.

“A otra cosa che pebeta” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943.

“A otra cosa che pebeta” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943.

Enrique Cadícamo, Argentine Tango lyricist and composer.

Enrique Cadícamo

Poet, lyricist, composer, writer and playwright (15 July 1900 – 3 December 1999)

He was one of the most prolific authors of Tango.

It is difficult to find so prolific an author within any songbook in the world; he approached any imaginable subject to be sung and in all rhythms.

He traveled abroad, especially to France.

He published several books, wrote for theatre and cinema, and directed movies.

He was undoubtedly great in the Argentine popular song; notable, superb.

Read more about Enrique Cadícamo at www.todotango.com

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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!

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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Carlos Vicente Geroni Flores, Argentine Tango musician, leader and composer.

“Marisabel” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1942.

“Marisabel” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1942.

Carlos Vicente Geroni Flores, Argentine Tango musician, leader and composer.

Carlos Vicente Geroni Flores

Violinist, pianist, leader and composer (22 March 1895 – 22 June 1953)

A wandering bohemian, Carlos Vicente Geroni Flores carried his musical talent throughout the world, spreading tangos and folk music in a personal subtle style.

And if as a composer he reached a remarkable prestige, as piano player he got such success that those who had the chance to hear him will never be able to forget him.

Among his compositions, the beautiful waltz “Marisabel”.

Read more about Carlos Vicente Geroni Flores 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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Ricardo Tanturi, Argentine Tango musician, leader and composer, and medical doctor.

“La vida es corta” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1941.

Ricardo Tanturi, Argentine Tango musician, leader and composer, and medical doctor.Ricardo Tanturi

Pianist, leader, and composer.
(January 27, 1905 – January 24, 1973)

Tanturi’s great success would come in 1939 when he incorporated Alberto Castillo, a great attraction for the public.

Castillo, with his perfect tune, master ability in the use of pitches and mezza voce, seduced the audience in many possible ways: with his exaggerated gestures, his masculine elegance, and neat hairstyle, his gynecologist degree (obtained in 1942), and that sometimes intimate sometimes lively mood, all of which made a show of every tango.

In all the 37 songs recorded by Castillo before leaving Tanturi in 1943, the orchestra let him play the leading role as it did with the singer chosen to replace him, the Uruguayan Enrique Campos. Like Castillo, Campos was concerned with communicating with the public, making no attempts to display his vocal skills. He sang in an indifferent, unexcited, straightforward fashion. Behind him, the orchestra sounded self-confident, precise, and discreet, with perfection. All this turned the 51 songs recorded by Tanturi-Campos into one of the treasuries of the genre.


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Alberto Castillo, Argentine Tango singer and composer.

“Barajando recuerdos” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943.

“Barajando recuerdos” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943.

Alberto Castillo, Argentine Tango singer and composer.

Alberto Castillo

Singer, actor, composer and lyricist (7 December 1914 – 23 July 2002)

Definitively, he is a voice that does not sound like any other’s voice.

Nor is his style like anyone’s; when he said that his peculiar phrasing was what the dancers needed —«people moved according to the nuances of my voice»— he said to himself: «Here’s the thing!» and he never deviated from that way of singing, of that natural style of tango, to which a detail of great importance must be added: his perfect intonation.

Since early childhood, he showed a natural inclination towards music; he had violin lessons and sang anywhere he could.

On a particular night —he was already 15 years old— he was singing for the barra (group of friends) —in which he was the youngest and the most admired— when the guitarist Armando Neira heard him and suggested including him in his outfit.

In 1939 he became an Orquesta Típica Los Indios member, led by Ricardo Tanturi.

Read more about Alberto Castillo at www.todotango.com

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  • 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.

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