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Igual que una sombra

Music by Osvaldo Pugliese, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1945–1945.

Who recorded it

Every version2

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1945

  1. Miguel CalóRaúl Iriarte1945
  2. Ricardo TanturiEnrique Campos1945

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
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

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

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1945 to 1945.
1940
Recordings of Igual que una sombra by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 3, 2026

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

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdIgual que una sombraMiguel CalóRaúl IriartetangoOdeon
    2 dances
    1945
  2. Ricardo TanturiMost dancedIgual que una sombraRicardo TanturiEnrique CampostangoRCA Victor
    8 dances
    1945
  3. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAdrián Guida1989
  4. Oscar AlonsoNot in our catalogue
  5. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAdrián Guida
  6. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
All recordings of Igual que una sombra

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Ricardo Tanturi

Igual que una sombraRicardo TanturiEnrique CampostangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 10 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1945 · danced on film 2015–2024

20152024
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

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

  1. John Zabala and Maria Filali

    In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1IntimaTípica Victor, 1940
    2. 2Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
    3. 3Igual que una sombraRicardo Tanturi, 1945
    4. 4El espianteOsvaldo Fresedo, 1933
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Alejandro Berón and Veronica Vazquez

    2015 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi, 1938
    2. 2MaldonadoPedro Laurenz, 1943
    3. 3Igual que una sombraMiguel Caló, 1945
    Watch it on TangoTube

Read more

every sentence cites a published fact

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

Listen

  1. Igual que una sombraMiguel CalóRaúl IriartetangoOdeon
  2. Igual que una sombraRicardo TanturiEnrique CampostangoRCA Victor

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