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Song

Embrujamiento

Music by Ricardo Malerba, Dante Smurra. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–1943.

Who recorded it

Every version2

Earliest we hold: Juan D'Arienzo, 1942

  1. Juan D'ArienzoJuan Carlos Lamas1942
  2. Ricardo MalerbaOrlando Medina1943

Versions of Embrujamiento recorded 1942–1943

Embrujamiento was composed by Dante Smurra and Ricardo Malerba.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

47 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Ricardo Malerba, Dante Smurra
Words
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Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

¡Qué embrujo sin perdón es este amor! ¡Tu amor!, del que no puedo libertarme. ¿Qué fuerza loca y cruel me empuja a vos, sin ver que ya jamás podré salvarme? ¿Qué magia hay en tu boca roja como una maldición, que me embruja y me quema? Aún sabiendo que no es mío tu corazón. ¿Por qué te quiero odiar si sólo sé vivir queriéndote cada vez más? Tu amor es fuego en mis venas y es insomnio en mis noches. Tu amor es una condena que bendice tu nombre. Quiero olvidarte y te llamo, quiero odiarte y te adoro, quiero ahogarte en mis brazos, y al mirarte a los ojos te imploro, te imploro llorando perdón.

English · machine translation

What an unforgiving spell is this love! Your love! from which I cannot free myself. What mad and cruel force drives me to you, not seeing that I can never save myself? What magic is in your mouth red as a curse that bewitches and burns me? Even knowing that your heart is not mine. Why do I want to hate you if I only know how to live loving you more and more? Your love is fire in my veins and it's insomnia in my nights. Your love is a condemnation that blesses your name. I want to forget you and I call you, I want to hate you and I adore you, I want to drown you in my arms, and when I look into your eyes I implore you, I implore you crying for forgiveness.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1942 to 1943.
1940
Recordings of Embrujamiento by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 2 more we know of

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

The leader is Ricardo Malerba, 1943, with 89% of the 47 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

25 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

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

  1. Ricardo MalerbaMost dancedEmbrujamientoRicardo MalerbaOrlando Medinatango
    42 dances · 89%
    1943
  2. Juan D'ArienzoEarliest we holdEmbrujamientoJuan D'ArienzoJuan Carlos LamastangoRCA Victor
    5 dances · 11%
    1942
  3. Sexteto MilongueroNot in our catalogue
  4. Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueRuben Peloni
All recordings of Embrujamiento

One recording

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

Ricardo Malerba

EmbrujamientoRicardo MalerbaOrlando Medinatango
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Couples filmed dancing this recording · 40 Performances

Sebastián Achaval & Roxana SuárezWorld Champion · Tango de Salón 2005White Nights Tango · 2013 · 2:48

Danced to it

Music from 1942–1943 · danced on film 2007–2025

20072025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2007: 1, 2009: 4, 2010: 7, 2011: 2, 2012: 3, 2013: 6, 2014: 1, 2015: 3, 2016: 2, 2017: 2, 2019: 1, 2022: 2, 2025: 1

Through the decades

  1. The 2000sPablo Inza & Mariela Sametband2009
  2. The 2010sSebastián Achaval & Roxana SuárezWhite Nights Tango · 2013
  3. The 2020sAgustina Piaggio2022

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. Salón La NacionalMonserrat
    2 performances
  2. El Yeite Tango ClubVilla Crespo
    1 performance

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.

3 of 6 complete sets on film

  1. Alejandro Andrian and Corina de la Rosa

    2017 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1EmbrujamientoRicardo Malerba, 1943
    2. 2Esta noche de lunaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1955
    3. 3Mucho muchoJuan D'Arienzo, 1953
    4. 4Pobre florAlfredo De Angelis, 1946
    Watch it on TangoTube

  2. Roxana Suárez and Sebastián Achaval

    White Nights Tango, 2013 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Yo no espero nadaJuan D'Arienzo, 1945
    2. 2La piba de los jazminesRicardo Malerba, 1943
    3. 3EmbrujamientoRicardo Malerba, 1943
    Watch it on TangoTube

  3. Nany Peralta and Rebecca O´Laoire

    2013 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1EmbrujamientoRicardo Malerba, 1943
    2. 2La vida es cortaRicardo Tanturi, 1941
    3. 3Para qué te quiero tantoAlfredo De Angelis, 1945
    Watch it on TangoTube

Read more

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370189233

TodoTango · tema/2499

Composer2

Composed by Dante Smurra

Composed by Ricardo Malerba

Listen

  1. EmbrujamientoJuan D'ArienzoJuan Carlos LamastangoRCA Victor
  2. EmbrujamientoRicardo MalerbaOrlando Medinatango

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