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Concepción Amaya

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Described as She was better known as Mamita

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  1. Concepción Amaya7 days agoDescribed as She was better known as Mamita
  2. Concepción Amaya7 days agoDescribed as In her house at Lavalle 2177 Ernesto Ponzio composed his famous tango Don Juan (El taita del barrio)
  3. Irene Cataxinos7 days agoDescribed as She studied tango in her beloved Villa Urquiza
  4. Irene Cataxinos7 days agoDescribed as In the mid-1990s she fell in love with tango
  5. María Olivera7 days agoDescribed as Between 2006 and 2007 she organised the Milonga Tanguedia at Plaza Bohemia, Maipú 444
  6. María Olivera7 days agoDescribed as In 2004 she began as assistant to Gustavo Benzecry Sabá at the Salón Canning
  7. María Olivera7 days agoDescribed as She grew up in San Telmo in a tango family
  8. El Tano Guillermo7 days agoDescribed as In the 1950s he learned to dance in his neighbourhood clubs, reaching the compadrito air of the milongueros of La Paternal
  9. El Tano Guillermo7 days agoDescribed as He used to wander the Parakultural at Salón Canning and the now-gone Niño Bien
  10. Pedro Vujovich7 days agoDescribed as Tango found him at 14 and he practised at Parque Lezama
  11. Pedro Vujovich7 days agoDescribed as Nicknamed Pinocho for his pointed nose; from La Boca
  12. Pocho Carreras7 days agoDescribed as He frequented the Club Patagones, in Quilmes, and later the Club Estados Unidos and the Franja de Oro
  13. Pocho Carreras7 days agoDescribed as Around 1947, at 16, he practised three or four times a week
  14. El Turco José7 days agoDescribed as His mother, who sang tangos, suggested he dance to meet girls
  15. El Turco José7 days agoDescribed as In the mid-1940s he entered, with his friend El Perita, a practice at the Asociación de Fomento y Cultura Villa Cerini in Saavedra
  16. Olga Besio7 days agoDescribed as Her career has lasted almost thirty years
  17. Olga Besio7 days agoDescribed as Olga Besio is an experienced tango teacher with deep knowledge of tango salón
  18. Hector Falcon7 days agoDescribed as Falcón began professional activity at 14
  19. Hector Falcon7 days agoDescribed as He began his career in Argentine folk dance, studied from age 5 and qualified as a folk-dance teacher
  20. Ezequiel Paludi7 days agoDescribed as He took up tango from a dream of conducting an orchestra, interpreting the instruments and orchestration with his body
  21. Ezequiel Paludi7 days agoPartnered with Geraldine Rojas
  22. El Tano Elegancia7 days agoDescribed as He boasted in cocoliche that he was first, El Cachafaz second and Tarila third
  23. El Tano Elegancia7 days agoDescribed as Around 1935 he lived with his partner Lina, a jukebox keeper at a Palermo café, in a conventillo on calle Gorriti
  24. Alberto Paz7 days agoPartnered with Valorie Hart
  25. Alberto Paz7 days agoDescribed as Born in Buenos Aires and trained as an electrical engineer, he moved to the United States in 1968; tango conquered him in the 1990s
  26. Daniel Videla Dorna7 days agoDescribed as Around 15 he defied a family mandate and opened the door to tango
  27. Daniel Videla Dorna7 days agoDescribed as Raised in the Palacio Videla Dorna at avenida Rivadavia 4929
  28. Andrea Misse7 days agoDescribed as Born in Villa Urquiza, the eldest of five siblings
  29. Elvio Vitali7 days agoDescribed as He spent time with friends at the Parakultural and El Beso
  30. Elvio Vitali7 days agoDescribed as Born in Villa Domínico in 1953
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