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Ilusión de mi vida · Feliciano Brunelli · 1949

Feliciano Brunelliinstrumentalvals
Music by Feliciano Brunelli, lyrics by Nolo López. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1949–1998.

Who recorded it

Every version4

Earliest we hold: Feliciano Brunelli, 1949

  1. Horacio Salgan19521965
  2. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)1998
  3. Feliciano Brunelli1949

Recorded 1949 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Feliciano Brunelli recordings indexed 1939–1949

Ilusión de mi vida · Feliciano Brunelli · 1949 is a vals.† Ilusión de mi vida · Feliciano Brunelli · 1949 lasts 02:35.† Ilusión de mi vida · Feliciano Brunelli · 1949: A party-time accordion orchestra, played to lift spirits; Salgán later transformed this waltz.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

28 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Feliciano Brunelli
Words
Nolo López
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

These are the song’s words. This take is instrumental.

Español

Asomate al balcón, mujer, y escucha mi canción de amor, que en ella va mi corazón rendido de pasión y fe. Yo te soñé, mi dulce bien, radiante y bella como un sol, y en tus ojazos negros vi un mundo de ilusión; yo tengo para ti, mujer, un cielo para allí soñar y un nido que será de amor colmado de felicidad. Tus besos curarán el mal que llevo en mi corazón. Yo quiero vivir de amor porque yo sé querer. Amor, amor, por ti penaré. Amor, amor, por ti lloraré. Yo quiero de ti, mujer, calor de tu querer. Así al dolor, tu amor matará, yo quiero vivir sin penar. Mi sueño se realizará llevándote al altar, mujer; entonces para mí serás la dueña de mi gran querer. Y unidos al amor los dos ya nadie nos separará y el velo del anochecer tu amor alumbrará; las penas que sufriera ayer mi pobre corazón se fueron cuando te encontré la noche azul en tu balcón. Amada de mi sueño ideal te elevo mi canción de amor canciones que por ti hilvanó mi alma musical.

English · machine translation

Look out on the balcony, woman and listen to my love song, for in it goes my heart surrendered with passion and faith. I dreamed of you, my sweet good, radiant and beautiful as a sun, and in your big black eyes I saw a world of illusion; I have for you, woman, a sky to dream of there and a nest that will be of love filled with happiness. Your kisses will cure the evil that I carry in my heart. I want to live of love because I know how to love. Love, love, for you I will grieve. Love, love, for you I will cry. I want from you, woman the warmth of your love. So the pain, your love will kill, I want to live without sorrow. My dream will come true by taking you to the altar, woman; then for me you will be the mistress of my great love. And united in love, the two of us no one will separate us anymore and the veil of nightfall your love will illuminate the sorrows that my poor heart my poor heart were gone when I found you the blue night on your balcony. Beloved of my ideal dream I raise you my song of love songs that my musical soul my musical soul.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 4 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1949 to 1998.
1940’50’60’70’80’90
Recordings of Ilusión de mi vida · Feliciano Brunelli · 1949 by year, taller the more they are danced · 4 of 4 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 9 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  2. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Most dancedIlusión de mi vidaColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez)vals
    15 dances
    1998
  3. Feliciano BrunelliEarliest we holdIlusión de mi vidaFeliciano Brunelliinstrumentalvals
    13 dances
    1949
  4. Estrellas de Buenos AiresNot in our catalogueMay 21960
  5. Horacio SalgánNot in our catalogue1967
  6. Los Indios TacunaoNot in our catalogue1970
  7. Ariel RamírezNot in our catalogue1976
  8. Horacio SalgánNot in our catalogueMar 71981
  9. Juanjo DomínguezNot in our catalogue2004
  10. Rafael RossiNot in our catalogue-unspecified female-
  11. Roberto GrelaNot in our catalogue
  12. Los Indios TacunaoNot in our catalogue

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Feliciano Brunelli

Ilusión de mi vidaFeliciano Brunelliinstrumentalvals

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 9 Performances

Cyntia Palacios & Sebastian BolivarWorld Champions · Tango de Pista 20222023 · 2:28

Danced to it

Music from 1949 · danced on film 2019–2023

20192023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2019: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 3

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sMariano Otero & Alejandra HerediaLisbon Tango Festival · 2019
  2. The 2020sCyntia Palacios & Sebastian Bolivar2023

Filmed sets

One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.

The one complete set on film

  1. Cyntia Palacios and Sebastian Bolivar

    2023 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1El paladínOsvaldo Pugliese, 1945
    2. 2Ya lo vesJuan D'Arienzo, 1941
    3. 3Ilusión de mi vidaFeliciano Brunelli, 1949
    4. 4Selección de tangosJuan D'Arienzo, 1972
    Watch it on TangoTube

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Danced alongside it

Our data: the recordings most often danced in the same filmed Performance as this one (one Couple dancing one to eight songs). Nearer the middle, more Performances.

  1. 1Selección de tangosJuan D'Arienzo, 1972 · danced together in 2 Performances

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Videos danced in

What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

tango.info · 00743219561428-1-21

tango.info · 02480002030584-1-1

Is a1

Is a vals

Duration1

Duration 02:35

Notes1

A party-time accordion orchestra, played to lift spirits; Salgán later transformed this waltz.

Vocal1

Vocal instrumental

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  1. Ilusión de mi vidaFeliciano Brunelli

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