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Edmundo Rivero en Volver Tango
"Edmundo Rivero en Volver Tango" is an episode of the Volver Tango documentary series about the bass-voiced tango singer Edmundo Rivero. The narration, interviewees and sung excerpts follow his life from a musical childhood to his last years at El Viejo Almacén.
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Early years and first orchestras
The narration places Rivero's birth near Puente Alsina in 1911 and says that he grew up in a musical family. It follows the family to a country railway station where his father worked and then to Saavedra, where Rivero performed with his brother Aníbal. An interviewee calls him a national singer who sang folk songs as readily as tango. The film says that a prank phone call led to his hiring in José De Caro's orchestra. It says that he then moved to Julio De Caro's orchestra and later to Humberto Canaro's.
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Salgán and Troilo
According to the film, Rivero stopped singing for a time and worked as a guitarist accompanying Nelly Omar. He returned in 1944 when Horacio Salgán called him. In the film, the film recounts that the record company objected to Rivero's deep voice and that Salgán refused to record without him. The narration says that Rivero joined Aníbal Troilo's orchestra in 1947. An interviewee says that Rivero studied the words of each tango closely. The film shows Troilo's farewell speech when Rivero left the orchestra in 1949.
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Solo career and later years
The film describes Rivero's solo career with guitars and his recordings with the orchestras of Víctor Buccino, Carlos Figari and Mario De Marco. It also covers his love of lunfardo, the slang of Buenos Aires. The narration says that he opened El Viejo Almacén in 1969 and died in January 1986 while planning a farewell tour. An interviewee closes by calling his phrasing impossible to imitate.
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