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“Para dos” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica, 1952.

“Para dos” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica, 1952.

Osvaldo Ruggiero with Osvaldo Pugliese and other musicians of his Argentine Tango orchestra.

Osvaldo Ruggiero

Bandoneonist and composer (September 22, 1922 – May 31, 1994)

“Any other bandoneonist did not influence me.

My thing was catching the “bellows”, and play, play and study hard, but all alone.

Furthermore, we must consider that I reached the Osvaldo Pugliese Orchestra when I was seventeen. Then, yes, Osvaldo shaped me, polished me, and marked me forever. Pugliese’s orchestra was always an avant-garde team; we were forming our personality in it.

I had to do it because Osvaldo was very exacting. He used to tell me: “You have to study. Study!”

I took it very seriously because I wanted to stand out. Osvaldo insisted: “You have to be interesting as Anibal Troilo is”. He told me about Troilo because he was the great figure of the bandoneon.

See what a challenge this man pushed me into!”

Read more about Osvaldo Ruggiero 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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“La rosarina” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1937.

“La rosarina” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1937.

Ricardo González, Argentine Tango musician and composer.

Ricardo González

Bandoneonist and composer (20 November 1885 – 30 September 1962)

This musician, born in the porteño neighborhood of San Cristóbal, started as a guitarist.

It was he who taught Eduardo Arolas to play the bandoneon.

He was a neighbor and friend of the Canaro‘s family and the Grecos’. However, it was precisely Vicente Greco who encouraged him to learn to play bandoneon.

His tango “La rosarina” deserves a special paragraph because it was the one which stood out most.

The girl who inspired it was named Zulema Díaz.

Her beauty struck Ricardo, so he chose that title for his tango.

And she also danced well!

Read more about Ricardo González 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?

“Nochero soy” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica, 1956.

“Nochero soy” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica, 1956.

Oscar Herrero, Argentine Tango musician and composer.

Oscar Herrero

Violinist, composer and arranger (July 5, 1921 – February 23, 1999)

He was born in the neighborhood of Palermo, in Buenos Aires, to a family home in which music and especially Tango, had a significant value.

In late 1943, a problematic situation occurred to Oscar Herrero when the unforgettable Alfredo Gobbi summoned him to join his aggregation when accepting the proposal from Osvaldo Pugliese’s orchestra.

Herrero’s attitude when joining Pugliese would make Gobbi very angry. And they reconciled many years later.

But he was right in his choice because he had a twenty-five-year tenure in the orchestra.

It is important to highlight his creative capacity, showed in works like “Nochero soy”.

Read more about Oscar Herrero 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?

Argentine Tango dancing with Mimi at Enchanted Tango Home

Argentine Tango dancing with Mimi at Enchanted Tango Home

Practice regularly and consciously, taking care that the practice provides nice sensations of joy to you.

By doing so, you are making yourself generous in extending this joy to your partners and the other dancers that share with you the dance floors of the classes and milongas.

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“Que lindo es enamorarse” by Alfredo De Angelis y su Orquesta Típica with Carlos Dante in vocals, 1946.

“Que lindo es enamorarse” by Alfredo De Angelis y su Orquesta Típica with Carlos Dante in vocals, 1946.

Pascual Contursi, Argentine Tango lyricist.

Pascual Contursi

Poet, lyricist, playwriter and amateur singer (18 November 1888 – 29 May 1932)

He was the creator of the lyric for tango, and with it, he turned Tango into the sentimental song of Buenos Aires.

He introduced human topics of universal value into it — sadness, melancholy, love disappointments, ambition, decadence, and injustice— even though his specific universe was that of whorehouses’ life with their pimps and harlots.

In those first decades of the 20th century, the immigratory flood had brought hundreds of thousands of lonesome men who nourished a huge sex market.

Contursi, then settled in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, by going beyond the shallow and jolly lyrics used in the early tango, set between 1914 and 1915 the new poetic parameters for the genre which included as a peculiarity —in some cases— the narration of a complete plot displayed in a few verses. 

Read more about Pascual Contursi at www.todotango.com

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Listen and buy:

  • Amazon music

  • iTunes music

  • Spotify

More Argentine Tango music selected for you:

We have lots more music and history

How to dance to this music?