Tango in 1989

This article collects dated events in tango for the year 1989 as they are reported in the available sources ^[1][3][5][9]. Most of the material concerns a small number of figures: the orchestra leader Osvaldo Pugliese, the singer Roberto Goyeneche, Susana Rinaldi, described in her biography as a voice of tango, and Astor Piazzolla ^[1][4][6][8].

In the available listing, most of the year's recorded output is credited to Pugliese's orchestra. The listing gives 28 titles with the year 1989, and many of them also carry the specific date 26 June 1989 ^[5]. The singers credited on these entries include Abel Córdoba, Adrián Guida, Alberto Morán and Jorge Maciel ^[5].

Outside Argentina, the sources place tango activity in the Netherlands, Japan and France in 1989 ^[1][4][8][9]. In Paris, a tango venue opened, a stage production returned, and Susana Rinaldi settled in the city ^[6][9]. Also in 1989, Luis Bravo decided after a visit to Argentina to give up the cello and produce his own tango show, Forever Tango ^[7].

The sources disagree on some details. The date given by biographical sources for the joint Pugliese–Piazzolla appearance differs from the date attached to a recording credited to both in the listing. Some recordings also appear in the listing with different vocalist credits ^[1][5][8]. These points are described below and recorded as disputed ^[5][8].

On 29 June 1989, Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese shared recitals at the Carré theatre in Amsterdam, according to the Spanish-language article on Piazzolla ^[1]. The English-language article on Pugliese also lists an appearance of Pugliese's orchestra with Piazzolla in Amsterdam on 29 June 1989, under the Netherlands ^[8]. The same source states that Pugliese's orchestra toured Japan in 1989 ^[8].

A discography listing credits a recording of La yumba to Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese with the date 26 June 1989. That is three days before the Amsterdam date given in the biographical sources ^[1][5][8]. The sources do not say whether this entry relates to the Amsterdam recitals, and the two dates differ ^[5][8].

Roberto Goyeneche also performed in Japan in 1989, together with Néstor Marconi ^[4]. His biography describes these appearances as successful and states that they were his last international recital ^[4].

According to her biography, Susana Rinaldi made her début in Paris in 1976, after a new military dictatorship had been established. She finally settled in the city in 1989 ^[6]. The same biography says that from Paris she had already become "the most important international voice of tango" ^[6].

Also in 1989, the Latina – Bistrot Latin opened on the rue du Temple in Paris. It was founded by Isabelle de la Preugne and Alfredo Palacios, according to a French heritage inventory document on the tango ball in France ^[9]. The same document states that the show Tango Argentino returned to Paris that year, at the Théâtre Mogador ^[9].

Luis Bravo, then a cellist, decided in 1989 to give up the cello and produce his own tango show after a visit to Argentina ^[7]. The show is identified as Forever Tango ^[7].

A discography listing for 1989 credits Osvaldo Pugliese with 28 titles dated to that year ^[5]. For fourteen of them, the listing also gives the specific date 26 June 1989 ^[5]. These are dates attached to recordings in the listing. They are not evidence of when the works were composed or first performed ^[5].

Four titles with singer credits also appear in a second entry under the same listing code, dated 26 June 1989, with no vocalist named. These are Bailemos, Las cuarenta, Melodía de arrabal and Milonga para Gardel, and the source does not explain the difference ^[5].

The listing also includes a 1989 recording of Silencio (tango) by José Canet with Nelly Omar ^[5]. Four further 1989 entries carry no performer credit: Adiós, nonino (tango), and three titles with no genre given, Michelangelo '70, Mumuki and Tanguedia III ^[5].

Apart from Zunnini's dates, the source gives no precise year for this line-up ^[2].

In 1989, SADAIC (the Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música) and the Asociación de Coleccionistas de Tango unveiled a plaque at Avenida Corrientes 960 ^[3]. According to the article on Osvaldo Pugliese, it commemorated fifty years of 'the Maestro' at the head of his orchestra ^[3].

Roberto Goyeneche was named Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Mar del Plata (Illustrious Citizen of Mar del Plata) in 1989 ^[4]. He received the Premio Estrella del Mar in 1989 and again in 1990 ^[4].