Song

Saca chispas

Music by Julio de Caro. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1938–1938.

Saca chispas was composed by Julio De Caro.^†

Credit

Music: Julio de Caro

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

1 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

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Julio De CaroEarliest we holdMost dancedLuis Díaz · Mar 10
223 dances
1938

Lyrics

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Sacale chispas mi vida, a tu pobre corazón No sufras el desencanto de vivir sin ambición No hay nada como un cariño, para alentar una ilusión La vida resulta corta sin tener un

English · machine translation

Take sparks, my life, from your poor heart. Don't suffer the disenchantment of living without ambition. There's nothing like a sweetheart, to encourage an illusion Life is short without having a rocket

Danced to it

Music from 1938 · danced on film 2007–2026

20072026

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

Sebastián Achaval & Roxana SuárezWorld Champion · Tango de Salón 2005Lisbon Tango Festival · 2018 · 2:51

Through the decades

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues1

tango.info · T0370026531

Single source

Composer1

Composed by Julio De Caro