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Documental sobre Julio Sosa Canal Volver Tango 1998
This Volver Tango documentary episode profiles Julio Sosa, the Uruguayan singer billed as "el varón del tango". Through narration, interviews with musicians, relatives and friends, and performance footage, it follows him from a poor childhood in Las Piedras to stardom in Buenos Aires.
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Uruguay and arrival in Buenos Aires
The film says Sosa was born in Las Piedras, Canelones, on 2 February 1926, to a laundress mother and a labouring father. Interviewees recall him winning a local tango contest at 12. The narrator then places his professional debut with Carlos Gilardoni's orchestra, followed by work with pianist Hugo Di Carlo. Friends describe a raffle that paid for a one-way passage, and the film dates his arrival in Argentina to 15 June 1949.
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Orchestras, surgery and Leopoldo Federico
According to the film, Sosa was heard at Café Los Andes in Chacarita and auditioned for Armando Pontier, debuting with the Francini–Pontier orchestra. It says he joined Francisco Rotundo in April 1953, developed polyps on his vocal cords and recovered after surgery, then returned to Pontier in 1955. After a car accident in 1960, he began working with bandoneonist Leopoldo Federico, a partnership one interviewee rates above all his earlier ones.
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Fame and legacy
The film credits Roberto Gaspari, artistic director at CBS, with naming Sosa's first solo LP, made with Federico in 1961, after the "varón del tango" phrase. Colleagues recall a natural actor on television. The film ends with his death at 38 and the 1987 return of his remains to Las Piedras.
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