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“El pañuelito” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Jorge Maciel in vocals, 1959.

“El pañuelito” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Jorge Maciel in vocals, 1959.

Jorge Maciel, Argentine Tango singer of the Golden Era.

Jorge Maciel

Singer (17 September 1920 – 25 February 1975)

He was born in La Boca and started professionally in 1940 singing in a group of his neighborhood.

In 1947 he joined the Alfredo Gobbi Orchestra and began his stage of consecration.

In 1954 he switched to the Osvaldo Pugliese Orchestra.

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“Rosa Morena (Abuelita Dominga)” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Rufino in vocals, 1942.

“Rosa Morena (Abuelita Dominga)” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Rufino in vocals, 1942.

Héctor Pedro Blomberg, Lyricist, author of

Héctor Blomberg

Lyricist (18 March 1889 – 3 April 1955)

ike in the cases of Manuel Romero, Luis César Amadori and many other great lyricists in tango, he started with journalism and went on with theater, and through the latter artistic activity he comes to song writing.

Since the beginning Blomberg was essentially a poet, and as such he was recognized, although much time later and with certain reticence, by those who made poetry a part of their life.

But the poet turned into popular writer, a situation that was comfortable and inspiring for him.

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Argentine Tango dancing with Mimi at our beginner class in San Jose

Argentine Tango dancing with Mimi at our beginner class in San Jose

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Mimi began her journey dancing Tango in 2013, under the training of Marcelo Solis.

Today she continues her training with Marcelo, while also assisting him in group and private classes on an as-needed basis.

Mimi travels frequently to Buenos Aires and has trained with several Maestros/as and Milongueros/as there.

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“La cumparsita” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1943.

“La cumparsita” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1943.

Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, author of the famous Argentine Tango

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

Pianist and composer (18 March 1897 – 25 April 1948)

He was the creator of the worldwide known and most successful tango of all times: “La cumparsita”.

He also composed a large worthy repertory undoubtedly superior to the most famous of his numbers.

He was born in Montevideo, the son of don Emilio Matos, owner of the cabaret named Moulin Rouge.

Read more about Gerardo Matos Rodriguez 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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