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Igual que una sombra

Music by Osvaldo Pugliese, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1945–1945.

Igual que una sombra was composed by Osvaldo Pugliese.

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Credit

Music
Osvaldo Pugliese
Lyrics
Enrique Cadícamo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

  1. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdRaul Iriarte · Odeon · Jan 1919452 dances
  2. Ricardo TanturiMost dancedEnrique Campos · RCA Victor · Apr 1219458 dances

Lyrics

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Hoy la vi después de un año, hoy se cruzó por mi herida. Iba hermosa mi muñeca mimosa, iba al lado de otro dueño, mi sueño; aquel sueño de mi vida. Pero era igual su corazón que en mi amor siempre está, y en mis noches sin estrellas ella es mi gran dolor. Ella es una sombra que nubla mi frente cuando, sin querer, la nombra. Es mi pasado, es mi presente. Y yo no puedo borrarla de mi mente. Ella en mis cuartetas, ella en mis angustias, ella en mi dolor de poeta; como raíces de tango grises, ella está en mi corazón. Otra vez llega el invierno, y mi vivir sin amores. Ya no suena su llamado esperado, y no escucho sus ternuras, tan puras. ¡Qué vacío me he quedado! Pero es igual, corazón, en mi amor siempre está, de ella son mis versos tristes tangos de dolor.

English · machine translation

Today I saw her after a year, today she crossed my wound. She was beautiful, my cuddly doll, she was next to another owner, my dream; that dream of my life. But her heart was the same that is always in my love, and in my starless nights she is my great pain. She is a shadow that clouds my forehead when, unwittingly, I name her. She is my past, she is my present. And I cannot erase her from my mind. She in my quatrains, she in my anguish, she in my poet's pain; like gray tango roots, she is in my heart. Winter comes again, and my living without love. Her long awaited call no longer sounds, and I don't hear her tenderness, so pure. How empty I am left! But it's all the same, my heart, she is always in my love, of her are my sad verses tangos of pain.

Danced to it

Music from 1945 · danced on film 2000–2026

20002026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2000: 1, 2015: 1, 2019: 2, 2023: 3, 2024: 1, 2026: 3

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19451945

1945: 2

Composer1

Composed by Osvaldo Pugliese1946

Supported · 2

In other catalogues3

tango.info · T0370218011

Single source

MusicBrainz · 0ff05dfc-cf6e-4b1c-bfa3-0c3f7de0ed0csource

Single source

TodoTango · tema/1128

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Lyricist1

Lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo

Single source

Listen

  1. Igual que una sombraMiguel Caló · Raúl Iriarte1945
  2. Igual que una sombraRicardo Tanturi · Enrique Campos1945

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