Female singers are very scarce in tango recordings meant for dancing. However, that doesn’t mean there was a lack of female tango singers in general. Several women were popular as tango canción (meant for listening) singers and some of them recorded quite some material, like Ada Falcón. The lady shown on this picture, Dorita Davis, is a lesser-known example among them. However, she at least does appear as a refrain singer in a few songs meant for dancing, more precisely by Roberto Firpo and Orquesta Típica Victor.
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Tango Archive
The idea of this website is to give access to (still undiscovered) photos of tango orchestras and singers found in old archive material.
Photographic material of tango music celebrities on the internet is still very scarce and we are working hard to change that.
We collaborate with Tango Time Machine at Tangodecoder.com to make more original material accessible.
Thank you for everything, Michael
Michael Krugman, † Dec. 2016
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