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3 unusual facts about tango music


Ángel Villoldo

Ángel Gregorio Villoldo Arroyo (16 February 1861 -14 October 1919) was an Argentine musician and one of the pioneers of tango.

Kriminaltango

Describing scenes from tavern, the song juxtaposes the appearance of shady figures ("dunkle Gestalten") and their mysterious dealings with dancing tango ("Und sie tanzen einen Tango").

Music of Easter Island

Tango, for example, has spawned an Easter Island style called tango Rapanui, characterized by a simple guitar accompaniment instead of the frenetic bandoneon.


Alberto Morán

Alberto Morán (born Remo Andrea Domenico Recagno, Strevi, Alessandria, Italy, 15 March 1922 - Buenos Aires, 16 August 1997) was an Argentine tango musician.

Estanislao Zuleta

His father died on June 24, 1935 in the same plane crash that killed the famous Tango composer and singer Carlos Gardel in his visit to the Colombian Andean city.

Famasloop

The group's first album, Tres Casas, which was released in June 2006, experimented with electronic music to integrate several genres such as pop, Latin, rock, hip-hop, trip-hop, Afro-Venezuelan, classical, Hindu, tango and jazz.

Hybrid Tango

Hybrid Tango is a side project by the members of Buenos Aires-based electronic neo-tango band Tanghetto.

Names of Buenos Aires

The oft-used expression mi Buenos Aires querido ("my beloved Buenos Aires") is the name of both a song popularized by tango singer Carlos Gardel and an eponymous movie.

Pablo Caliero

He came from Brassac-les-Mines (Auvergne, France), and wrote some of the most famous pieces of French Tango music, with international notice, and recognised by his Argentine peers.

Ramón Carrillo

He reinforced his close relationship with his former companion of elementary school Homero Manzi, as well as Arturo Jauretche, Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, and tango and theater composers Armando Discepolo y Enrique Santos Discépolo, representatives of tango culture and the new nationalistic ideas; and the Argentine-German neurobiological tradition active at the neuropsychiatric hospitals later known by the names of two disciples of Christfried Jakob, Drs.

Uri Nakayama

Nakayama's music is introduced as blended world accordion music, Gypsy Jazz, Musette, Tango etc. and her voice is advertised as "miracle voice" by record label.


see also

Electrocutango

Their music is today used in tango clubs worldwide, and is popular with dancers who like neo-tango music like Tanghetto, Gotan Project, and Bajofondo Tango Club.

José Sentis

Due to the influence of Argentinean friends like the musician Buchardo Alberto Lopez and the writer Ricardo Güiraldes he primarily performed tango music and wrote some tango compositions himself as well.