The Cabeceo

We've caught your eye across the milonga. Like any good tango, this starts with consent — nothing optional runs until you say so.Cookies only with your yes. What we store. ·

Skip to content
Tangopedia
Search
Search for “”
Find recordings of “”
OrchestrasSingersSongs
Browse

People

  • Orchestras
  • Orchestras today
  • Singers
  • Composers and lyricists
  • Musicians
  • Dancers
  • Couples

Music

  • Songs A–Z
  • Every recording
  • TangoValsMilonga
  • Radio
  • Tango By Year
  • The cover wall
  • Record labels

Time

  • Years
  • Eras
  • Decades
  • On this day

Places

  • Buenos Aires
  • Cities
  • Milongas tonight
  • Where an orchestra is danced

Events

  • Festivals
  • The Mundial

Ideas

  • Charts and maps
  • Listening lessons
  • New to tango?
  • Glossary
  • The map
ExploreContributeSign in

Live edits

Live edits

Revival

An editor · 5 days ago

Described as Seinäjoki: in the first two years only a Tangokuningas was chosen as winner of the tango singing contest, a Tangokuningatar too from 1987

All edits
209,213
Reader corrections
0
Last edit
3 hours ago

Activity

  1. Revival5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: in the first two years only a Tangokuningas was chosen as winner of the tango singing contest, a Tangokuningatar too from 1987
  2. Electronic and festival era5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: the 2019 Tangomarkkinat drew over 111,000 visitors
  3. Electronic and festival era5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: since 2004 the Tangomarkkinat has awarded the Tango Finlandia recognition for merit in Finnish tango
  4. Oscar Mandagaran5 days agoSpanish version of revision 1
  5. Electronic and festival era5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: the 2001 tango royalty Mira Sunnari and Erkki Räsänen were crowned at the newly opened Seinäjoki-areena
  6. Paulo Bidart5 days agoSpanish version of revision 1
  7. Revival5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: the fifteenth Tangomarkkinat in 1999 celebrated the festival's millionth guest
  8. Paula Duarte5 days agoSpanish version of revision 1
  9. Revival5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: in 1994, the tenth Tangomarkkinat, the event had already grown to a week long
  10. Revival5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: the originally one-weekend Tangomarkkinat was extended to three days in 1990
  11. Revival5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: in 1988 the Tangomarkkinat passed 25,000 visitors, and 50,000 in 1991
  12. Revival5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: in spring 1985 the associations Ilmajoen Musiikkijuhlat, Seinäjoen Maila-Jussit and Viihdekuoro Marit ja Mikot founded the Tangomusiikin edistämisyhd
  13. Nuevo5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: the answer was sought in light music, and the Tangomarkkinat's working model was borrowed from the Lappeenranta humppa festival, held since 1977
  14. Nuevo5 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki: concern in the early 1980s about the future of the Ilmajoki music festival set in motion the chain of events that led to the Tangomarkkinat
  15. Lisbon5 days agoDescribed as Lisbon: from 1999 to 2015 the tango dancer Alejandro Laguna was a teaching assistant at the Superior Dance School of Lisbon
  16. Lisbon5 days agoDescribed as Lisbon: in 2001 Alejandro Laguna danced tango to fado played by the Portuguese guitar master António Chainho at the televised Prémio Bordalo awards ceremony in
  17. Lisbon5 days agoDescribed as Lisbon: about 80 fado artists have performed at the Milonga d'A Barraca, where Laguna has paired tango dancing with live fado since 1999
  18. Lisbon5 days agoDescribed as Lisbon: in 1999 Alejandro Laguna founded the Milonga d'A Barraca, Portugal's longest running milonga, held every Sunday at the Teatro A Barraca Bar, an Art Deco
  19. Lisbon5 days agoDescribed as Lisbon: in 1998 the Buenos Aires-born dancer Alejandro Laguna began organising the first weekly milonga in Campo de Ourique
  20. Copenhagen5 days agoDescribed as Copenhagen: after Jalousie, Jacob Gade's tango Romanesca (with Rhapsodietta) was published in Copenhagen and in Paris
  21. Copenhagen5 days agoDescribed as Copenhagen: in 1909 the violinist and dance-music composer Jacob Gade, later the author of the tango Jalousie, was hired by the Hotel Bristol, in front of the c
  22. Copenhagen5 days agoDescribed as Copenhagen: the Palads cinema, in the former central railway station on Axeltorv, opened on 18 October 1912 with 1,780 seats and a 30-man orchestra, Scandinavia
  23. Copenhagen5 days agoDescribed as Copenhagen: written to accompany the silent film Son of Zorro while Jacob Gade led the Palads Cinema orchestra, the tango Jalousie premiered on 14 September 192
  24. Copenhagen5 days agoDescribed as Copenhagen: Jalousie was first performed under Gade's baton on 14 September 1925, the opening night of the Danish premiere of the silent film Don Q, Son of Zorr
  25. Copenhagen5 days agoDescribed as Copenhagen: Jacob Gade was principal conductor of the 24-piece orchestra of the Palads Cinema when he composed the tango Jalousie 'Tango Tzigane' in 1925
  26. Chiqué5 days agoSpanish version of revision 1
  27. Gloria Arquimbau5 days agoSpanish version of revision 1
  28. Gonzalo Robinson5 days agoSpanish version of revision 1
  29. Electronic and festival era5 days agoDescribed as Japan: the Argentine-tango radio programme 'Tango Album' ended on 29 October 2017, ending all AM-station tango programmes in Japan
  30. Electronic and festival era5 days agoDescribed as Japan: proponents of a '2010s third Japanese tango boom' point to NHK-FM's 'Today is all tango' programme of 3 May 2011 and later NHK late-night radio tango con
NewestOlder
T
Tangopedia

An open, sourced encyclopedia of tango, built from the recordings themselves. Every fact links its source.

Free to read, for everyone. A membership keeps it growing. See the plans

200,131 sourced facts

Explore

  • Explore
  • Random article
  • Years and decades
  • Places
  • Topics
  • The whole map
  • DJs
  • Bibliography
  • Source collections

Contribute

  • Suggest a fact
  • Your activity
  • Suggest a topic
  • Live edits
  • Report a mistake

About

  • How it works
  • How we know
  • For agents and programs
  • Open data & API

Browse

People

  • Orchestras
  • Orchestras today
  • Singers
  • Composers and lyricists
  • Musicians
  • Dancers
  • Couples

Music

  • Songs A–Z
  • Every recording
  • TangoValsMilonga
  • Radio
  • Tango By Year
  • The cover wall
  • Record labels

Time

  • Years
  • Eras
  • Decades
  • On this day

Places

  • Buenos Aires
  • Cities
  • Milongas tonight
  • Where an orchestra is danced

Events

  • Festivals
  • The Mundial

Ideas

  • Charts and maps
  • Listening lessons
  • New to tango?
  • Glossary
  • The map

Our sites

  • TangoTube
  • TangoCloud

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
© 2026 Tangopedia
EnglishEspañol
Every fact links its source