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Ilusión de mi vida · Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez) · 1998

Music by Feliciano Brunelli, lyrics by Nolo López. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1949–1998.
1949: 1 · danced 13 times1952: 1 · danced 0 times1965: 1 · danced 0 times1998: 1 · danced 15 times
1949’60’70’80’901998
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1949: 1, 13; 1952: 1, 0; 1965: 1, 0; 1998: 1, 15

  1. Horacio Salgan recorded it in 1952 and 1965.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

Credit

Music
Feliciano Brunelli
Lyrics
Nolo López

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

1940’50’60’70’80’90

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

  1. Horacio SalganInstrumental · RCA Victor · Apr 9
    Not danced on film yet
    1952
  2. Horacio SalganInstrumental · Philips
    Not danced on film yet
    1965
  3. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Most dancedInstrumental
    15 dances
    1998
  4. Feliciano BrunelliEarliest we holdInstrumental · Jul 29
    13 dances
    1949
  5. Estrellas de Buenos AiresNot in our catalogueInstrumental · May 21960
  6. Horacio SalgánNot in our catalogueInstrumental1967
  7. Los Indios TacunaoNot in our catalogueInstrumental1970
  8. Ariel RamírezNot in our catalogueInstrumental1976
  9. Horacio SalgánNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Mar 71981
  10. Juanjo DomínguezNot in our catalogueInstrumental2004
  11. Rafael RossiNot in our catalogue-unspecified female-
  12. Roberto GrelaNot in our catalogueInstrumental
  13. Los Indios TacunaoNot in our catalogueInstrumental

Lyrics

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.

Danced to it

Music from 1998 · danced on film 2011–2025

20112025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2011: 2, 2014: 1, 2015: 2, 2016: 2, 2017: 1, 2021: 1, 2022: 1, 2025: 1

Ezequiel Farfaro & Milena Plebs2:57

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sDamian Rosenthal & Vanessa Fatauros2016
  2. The 2020sDiego Riemer & Belèn Giachello & Maria Bélen2025

Connected

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Danced at

What we don't know yet3 of 5 known

The day it was recorded, the record label.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

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Listen

  1. Ilusión de mi vidaFeliciano Brunelli1949

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