Song
Igual que una sombra
Who recorded it
Every version2Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1945
Versions of Igual que una sombra recorded 1945
Igual que una sombra was composed by Osvaldo Pugliese.
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
2 orchestras recorded it
10 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Osvaldo Pugliese
- Words
- Enrique Cadícamo
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Hoy la vi después de un año, hoy se cruzó por mi herida. Iba hermosa mi muñeca mimosa, iba al lado de otro dueño, mi sueño; aquel sueño de mi vida. Pero era igual su corazón que en mi amor siempre está, y en mis noches sin estrellas ella es mi gran dolor. Ella es una sombra que nubla mi frente cuando, sin querer, la nombra. Es mi pasado, es mi presente. Y yo no puedo borrarla de mi mente. Ella en mis cuartetas, ella en mis angustias, ella en mi dolor de poeta; como raíces de tango grises, ella está en mi corazón. Otra vez llega el invierno, y mi vivir sin amores. Ya no suena su llamado esperado, y no escucho sus ternuras, tan puras. ¡Qué vacío me he quedado! Pero es igual, corazón, en mi amor siempre está, de ella son mis versos tristes tangos de dolor.
English · machine translation
Today I saw her after a year, today she crossed my wound. She was beautiful, my cuddly doll, she was next to another owner, my dream; that dream of my life. But her heart was the same that is always in my love, and in my starless nights she is my great pain. She is a shadow that clouds my forehead when, unwittingly, I name her. She is my past, she is my present. And I cannot erase her from my mind. She in my quatrains, she in my anguish, she in my poet's pain; like gray tango roots, she is in my heart. Winter comes again, and my living without love. Her long awaited call no longer sounds, and I don't hear her tenderness, so pure. How empty I am left! But it's all the same, my heart, she is always in my love, of her are my sad verses tangos of pain.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 4 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
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- Miguel CalóEarliest we holdIgual que una sombraMiguel CalóRaúl IriartetangoOdeon2 dances1945
- Ricardo TanturiMost dancedIgual que una sombraRicardo TanturiEnrique CampostangoRCA Victor8 dances1945
- Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAdrián Guida1989
- Oscar AlonsoNot in our catalogue
- Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAdrián Guida
- Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Couples filmed dancing this recording · 10 Performances
Danced to it
Music from 1945 · danced on film 2015–2024
2015: 1, 2019: 1, 2023: 3, 2024: 1
Filmed sets
One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.
2 of 2 complete sets on film
John Zabala and Maria Filali
In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1IntimaTípica Victor, 1940
- 2Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
- 3Igual que una sombraRicardo Tanturi, 1945
- 4El espianteOsvaldo Fresedo, 1933
Alejandro Berón and Veronica Vazquez
2015 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi, 1938
- 2MaldonadoPedro Laurenz, 1943
- 3Igual que una sombraMiguel Caló, 1945
Read more
- EncyclopediaOsvaldo PuglieseWikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0
- EntryOsvaldo PugliesePerson
- EntryEnrique CadícamoPerson
- EntryUna sombraComposition
- EntryEntre sombrasComposition
- EntryCielo de sombraComposition
- EntryEn las sombrasComposition
- EntryIgual que dos palomasComposition
- EntryIgual que DiosComposition
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What we don't know yet3 of 4 known
The year it was written.
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Composer1
Composed by Osvaldo Pugliese1946
In other catalogues3
tango.info · T0370218011
MusicBrainz · 0ff05dfc-cf6e-4b1c-bfa3-0c3f7de0ed0csource
TodoTango · tema/1128
Lyricist1
Lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo
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