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La historia de los cantores: segunda parte - Volver Tango
"La historia de los cantores: segunda parte" is an episode of the Volver Tango documentary series. It follows the tango singer from the orchestra vocalist of the 1940s to the soloists of later decades. The film mixes narration, interviews and sung excerpts, and keeps returning to one idea: the orchestra was where singers learned their craft.
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Orchestra singers of the 1940s
The narration calls the 1940s the orchestra singer's years of splendour. It says each orchestra presented two vocalists with contrasting styles. One interviewee names Osvaldo Pugliese's pairing of Chanel and Alberto Morán as the perfect model. The film also lists other emblematic pairs, including Echagüe and Laborde and Dante and Martel. Shorter segments profile Alberto Podestá, Jorge Durán, Raúl Berón and the singers of Juan D'Arienzo's orchestra.
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Soloists, cantinas and television
According to the narration, Alberto Castillo left Ricardo Tanturi's orchestra in 1943 to sing as a soloist. Héctor Maure, Alberto Marino, Edmundo Rivero, Jorge Vidal and Morán later took the same path. The film says Rivero's unusually low voice met resistance at first. It presents Julio Sosa, accompanied by Leopoldo Federico from 1958, as a new model of singer. It then describes how singers took refuge in cantinas during the 1960s and how television changed the way they performed.
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Decidores and the present
The final segments cover Rubén Juárez, whose 1969 Buenos Aires debut the narration describes, noting that he sang while playing the bandoneon. They also cover Roberto Goyeneche, whom the film calls tango's great "decidor", and Luis Cardei, who rose to popularity in the mid-1990s. Closing interviewees argue that today's singers lack the orchestras and directors that once shaped their style.
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