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Juan Carlos Godoy. Argentine music. Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

“Entre tu amor y mi amor” by Alfredo De Ángelis y su Orquesta Típica with Juan Carlos Godoy, 1959.

Juan Carlos Godoy

(August 21, 1922 – February 12, 2016)
My friend interviewed today was born in Campana, where “the soft water was fresher than the river.”

There’s a gate through which memories go back home, and through that open door represented by Juan Carlos’s heart, I step into his life, asking him to tell me things. Those things that are said when you are drinking mate in the shade of an old plantation and which we guess may appeal to the public who are the indisputable addressees of our songs.

“Tango began to be something that interested me by 1933 when Agustín Magaldi came to Campana. He had to appear one Sunday at the theater of the Sociedad Italiana, but he had temporarily lost his voice and could not sing. He only talked to the audience, and his five guitarists played instead. I was a kid, but I recall that Magaldi was a good-looking man, and the fact that he was there was enough to please the audience.”

“By that time, Carlos Gardel appeared at the Teatro Moderno.” Continue reading at www.todotango.com...


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.

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