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  1. Miguel Montero7 days agoSang with Pedro Maffia
  2. Miguel Montero7 days agoDescribed as used the pseudonym Alberto Luna (1938, Radio Del Pueblo)
  3. Miguel Montero7 days agoDied in Buenos Aires
  4. Miguel Montero7 days agoDied 1975-08-29
  5. Miguel Montero7 days agoBorn in San Miguel de Tucumán
  6. Miguel Montero7 days agoBorn 1922-07-09
  7. Alberto Amor7 days agoDescribed as baritone timbre with tenor-like reflections, amiable and delicate
  8. Alberto Amor7 days agoSignature recording Nada
  9. Alberto Amor7 days agoSang with Rodolfo Biagi
  10. Alberto Amor7 days agoSang with Florindo Sassone
  11. Alberto Amor7 days agoDescribed as real name Vinicio Guillermo D’Amore
  12. Alberto Amor7 days agoDied in Buenos Aires
  13. Alberto Amor7 days agoDied 1999
  14. Alberto Amor7 days agoBorn in Buenos Aires
  15. Alberto Amor7 days agoBorn 1917-01-25
  16. Electronic tango and neotango, 2000s–present7 days agoDescribed as Gotan Project's music is based on Argentine tango but also uses samples, beats and breaks
  17. Electronic tango and neotango, 2000s–present7 days agoDescribed as Bajofondo takes the traditional Río de la Plata styles and makes them more contemporary with rock, hip hop, jazz and electronic elements, especially sampling
  18. Milonga (music)7 days agoDescribed as In 1931 Sebastián Piana composed Milonga sentimental, the first urban milonga to be widely heard
  19. Milonga (music)7 days agoDescribed as Its first recording was Un bailongo (1922), composed and written by the Afro-Argentine José Ricardo
  20. Milonga (music)7 days agoGlossary meaning The milonga is a folk music genre of the Río de la Plata, typical of Argentina, Uruguay and Rio Grande do Sul
  21. Payada7 days agoGlossary meaning The payada is a poetic-musical art in which the payador improvises a rhymed recital accompanied by a guitar
  22. Roots7 days agoDescribed as The embrace was the first step towards tango; it was taken from the waltz and the mazurka
  23. Roots7 days agoDescribed as Academias and milongas multiplied, linked to the sale of drink, the 'cuartos de las chinas cuarteleras' and brothels, organised from 1870
  24. Roots7 days agoDescribed as The oldest of the academies, the Academia de Pardos y Morenos of Buenos Aires, dates from roughly the early 1830s
  25. Roots7 days agoDescribed as Slavery was definitively abolished in Uruguay in 1846 and in Argentina in 1853, but only in Buenos Aires in 1860
  26. Roots7 days agoDescribed as In 1813 the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata decreed the freedom of wombs: children of enslaved women were born free
  27. Roots7 days agoDescribed as The first roots of tango lie in the 'tangos' and 'candombes' of enslaved Africans, when Buenos Aires and Montevideo were under Spanish colonial rule
  28. Bajofondo7 days agoDescribed as The music has been called electrotango or electronic tango, but leader Gustavo Santaolalla does not think that describes the group's sound
  29. Bajofondo7 days agoDescribed as Founded in the early 2000s as a studio experiment that led to the album Bajofondo Tango Club
  30. Bajofondo7 days agoDescribed as Bajofondo is a Río de la Plata band of eight musicians from Argentina and Uruguay
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