Song
En blanco y negro
En blanco y negro was composed by Néstor Feria.
En blanco y negro is a milonga.
The lyrics of En blanco y negro are by Fernán Silva Valdés.
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Credit
- Music
- Néstor Feria
- Lyrics
- Fernán Silva Valdés
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
1 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 5 more we know of
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- Alberto MancioneEarliest we holdMost dancedJorge Ledesma, Héctor Alvarado · Jul 58 dances1954
- Donato RacciattiNot in our catalogueVíctor Ruiz1959
- Edmundo RiveroNot in our catalogue
- Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
- Donato RacciattiNot in our catalogueVíctor Ruiz
- -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Gómez
Lyrics
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Tuve tropilla “de un pelo” yo también como el mejor; tropilla de pelo oscuro, “mismito” como el dolor. Oscuro como mis penas, oscura como mi suerte; en el pago la llamaban la tropilla de la Muerte. Cuatro pingos todos negros, justo como pa' un entierro; cuatro pingos todos negros, como pa' cinchar un muerto. Mas todos en su negrura tenían su pinta clara, como una estrella en la noche, como el lucero en el alba. Uno tenía “el pico blanco”, otro las manos “vendada”, otro, una “estrella” en la frente como manchao de esperanza, otro, con un lunarejo mismo en el medio del anca, como llevando pa' siempre enancada una “luz mala”. Vos china, sos negra de alma, negra como mis caballos; bien oscurita por dentro y con el cuerpo bien blanco... Blanco tu cuerpo y oscura como mis pingos, tu alma, parecés de mi tropilla, ¡perdoná la 'comparancia'!...
English · machine translation
I had a "one hair" troop I also like the best; dark-haired tropilla, "same" as the pain. Dark as my sorrows, dark as my luck; in the pago they called it the troop of Death. Four pingos, all black, just like for a burial; four pingos all black, just like for a dead man's cinch. But all in their blackness they had their light look, like a star in the night, like a star at dawn. One had a "white beak", another had his hands "bandaged", another, a "star" on his forehead as if stained with hope, another one, with a mole even in the middle of his haunch, as if carrying forever a "bad light". You china, you are black of soul, black as my horses; very dark inside and with a very white body... Your body white and dark like my pingos, your soul, you look like you belong to my troop, pardon the 'comparancia'!...
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Music from 1954 · danced on film 2020
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Composer1
Composed by Néstor Feria
Supported · 2In other catalogues2
TodoTango · tema/1715
Single sourcetango.info · T0370010915
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Is a Milonga
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Lyrics by Fernán Silva Valdés
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