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This admittedly somewhat grainy picture is actually quite revealing in the sense, that we get a rare close-up of at least most members of Rodolfo Biagi’s orchestra in the very important years he worked together with Jorge Ortiz. Biagi is … Continue reading →

Today’s dance music is defined only by the recordings we have, and those recordings are only a part of what constituted tango music in the Golden Age. The picture below shows us a relatively important orchestra leader, Ciriaco Ortiz (left), … Continue reading →

Tango wasn’t just hard work and fierce competition. Sometimes you also had to relax a bit and apparently set a good example for the dance audience, like Donato or D’Arienzo. However, if we should really believe this image below (no, … Continue reading →

This picture shows us Ricardo Tanturi chatting with a woman called Carmen del Moral, a singer of ”tango canción” (tango music focused on the singer, not the dancer, like in the case of Carlos Gardel) before both will presumably go … Continue reading →

The intention of this website is to not just show the most famous and important figures from the tango world, but also some who are more hidden in the depths of history yet still played a now invisible contributing role … Continue reading →

It’s time for one of those mystery orchestras: Enrique Lomuto, brother of Francisco Lomuto, recorded only three songs but other than this meagre amount suggests, he seems to have been quite active for several years. There is only one tango … Continue reading →

Oh, what song would the men below have been rehearsing? One of those classic, floor-filling, fast valses like Dichas que viví? Or other, similarly popular tangos like Griseta and Cielo? Whenever I think of Falgás, one of the three singers … Continue reading →

Being a tango musician wasn’t just hard work and fierce competition: sometimes, you also got to serve some booze or keep the ladies happy. There were also some who knew how to care for their inner child, like the three … Continue reading →

Between 1935 and 1939, Juan D’Arienzo’s rhythm revolution produced a staggering amount of tango recordings that were truly designed for dancers, a veritable outburst of tango creativity we still very much profit from today. Especially during the ”crown year” 1938, … Continue reading →

Some important tango singers remain somewhat of a mystery, and Juan Carlos Miranda, in my opinion Demare’s best singer in what are also Demare’s best years, is definitely one of those relatively anonymous ones. Here, you see probably the first … Continue reading →