Our catalogue holds 53 recordings from 1987. The orchestras recorded most that year were Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán) (21 recordings), Los Solistas De D'Arienzo (21 recordings), and Astor Piazzolla (10 recordings).
That year
Héctor Varela dies in Buenos Aires; buried at the Chacarita cemetery.
Alberto Echague dies in Buenos Aires.
María Luisa Carnelli dies in Buenos Aires.
Finito dies of a heart attack after dancing a tango at the Akarense milonga, Villa Urquiza, on 11 May.
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What was playing?
The records of 1987
One record per orchestra, in the order tango remembers them, each its most danced take that plays. The bar shows how much dancers still use it in the videos we index.
Meanwhile
In Argentina, Uruguay and the world
- Carapintadas beginsWikidata
Connected
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Events where this year's music was danced
- Bratislava Tango Festival2 videos
- Viva La Pepa1 video
- Milonga La Baldosa1 video
- White Tango Festival1 video
- Festival LuganoTango1 video
Dancers filmed to this year's music
- Vidala Barboza11 videos
- Ivan Terrazas10 videos
- Sara Grdan10 videos
- Omar Cacerez10 videos
- Omar Caceras4 videos
- Natalia Lavandeira3 videos
- Roberto Reis3 videos
- Daniela Pucci2 videos
- Luis Bianchi2 videos
- Marcelo Almirón2 videos
- Mila Vigdorova1 video
- Sandra Messina1 video
What we don't know yet3 of 4 known
A day for any of the year's recordings.
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Recordings4
Fulvio Salamanca — 1 recordings1987
Single sourceAstor Piazzolla — 10 recordings1987
Single sourceNuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán) — 21 recordings1987
Single sourceLos Solistas De D'Arienzo — 21 recordings1987
Single sourceWhat happened29
Héctor Varela dies in Buenos Aires; buried at the Chacarita cemetery.
Single sourceAlberto Echague dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceMaría Luisa Carnelli dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceFinito dies of a heart attack after dancing a tango at the Akarense milonga, Villa Urquiza, on 11 May.
Single sourceMario Pomar dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceJorge Falcón dies of cancer in San Telmo, aged 37.
Single sourceRaúl Ledesma dies.
Single sourceHomero Expósito dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceHéctor Marcó dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceStella Baez begins dancing tango almost by accident: cast, as an actress, in the stage show 'Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina' at the Teatro Alvear, where she had to dance tango having learned only a little from her uncles and father. (A companion interview gives 1986.)
Single sourceInés Bórquez: Called by Segovia and Orezzoli into Tango Argentino, as dancers and choreographers.
Single sourceCarlos Bórquez: Called by Segovia and Orezzoli into Tango Argentino, as dancers and choreographers.
Single sourceGiselle Anne tours Japan with the Jorge Dragone orchestra (Época de Tango) and dances in Mariano Mores's A todo tango (1987-88).
Single sourceDaniel Trenner discovers tango in Buenos Aires while teaching jazz and improvisation at the State School of Contemporary Dance.
Single sourceRyota Komatsu starts teaching himself the bandoneon at fourteen; from sixteen studies with Cacho Giannini.
Single sourceCarel Kraayenhof: Invited by Astor Piazzolla to New York for the Broadway show Tango Apasionado (Wikipedia dates this to 1986).
Single sourceGustavo Naveira starts weekly dancing meetings at Cuartito Azul (to 1995) and at Cochabamba 444, Club Belgrano (to 1997).
Single sourceSandra Luna sings with Leopoldo Federico and Hugo Marcel at Casablanca, San Telmo.
Single sourceJoaquin Do Reyes dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceCarlos Yanel records the tango album Déjame hablarte with Osvaldo Montes for Almalí.
Single sourceTito Reyes begins singing at El Viejo Almacén with the Baffa-De Lío quartet.
Single sourceOsvaldo Ruggiero: Two months at Trottoirs de Buenos Aires in Paris during a European tour.
Single sourceSexteto Tango: European tour, including two months at Trottoirs de Buenos Aires in Paris.
Single sourceIsmael Spitalnik tours nine Soviet cities.
Single sourceFulvio Salamanca records his last LP with a sextet for Almalí.
Single sourceAgustin Irusta dies in Caracas.
Single sourceRoberto Goyeneche appears in Pino Solanas's film Sur.
Single sourceEduardo Del Piano dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceJulio Sosa: His remains are moved from Chacarita to the cemetery of Las Piedras, Uruguay.
Single sourceNotes5
Revival — Japan: the show Tango Argentino was broadcast on television, and the magazine Asahi Graph gave a whole issue to its commentary1987
Supported · 3Buenos Aires — Semana Santa uprising: The first carapintada rising.1987
Single sourcePremetro, Buenos Aires — Premetro opened: The light-rail line opens in the south-west.1987
Single sourceLorena Ermocida — She took her first tango steps in 1987 and devoted herself fully to the dance from 19891987
Single sourceNew York — New York: on 6 September 1987 Piazzolla gave a concert in New York's Central Park, in the city where he spent his childhood (after MontreuxSep 6, 1987
Single sourceOrchestras led1
Horacio Salgan — Led Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán).1987
Single sourcePlayed in1
Leopoldo Federico — Played in Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán).1987
Single sourceDied15
Héctor Varela — Died.Jan 30, 1987
Single sourceAlberto Echagüe — Died.Feb 22, 1987
Single sourceHéctor Palacios — Died.Apr 6, 1987, Apr 8, 1987
Supported · 2Héctor Palacios — Died.Apr 8, 1987
Single sourceAgustin Irusta — Died.Apr 25, 1987
Supported · 3Agustin Irusta — Died.Apr 25, 1987
Single sourceMario Pomar — Died.May 21, 1987
Supported · 2Mario Corrales — Died.May 21, 1987
Single sourceJoaquin Do Reyes — Died.Jun 8, 1987
Supported · 2José Sala — Died.Jun 23, 1987
Single sourceJosé Sala — Died.Jun 23, 1987
Single sourceJorge Falcón — Died.Jul 2, 1987
Single sourceRaúl Ledesma — Died.Aug 24, 1987
Supported · 2Homero Expósito — Died.Sep 23, 1987
Supported · 2Eduardo Del Piano — Died.Dec 21, 1987
Supported · 2Dates1
Revival — Occurred at Central Park.Sep 6, 1987
Single sourceListen
- LunfardoAstor Piazzolla · no clip yet1987
- Concierto para quintetoAstor Piazzolla1987
- La muerte del ángelAstor Piazzolla1987
- Adiós NoninoAstor Piazzolla1987
- Verano porteñoAstor Piazzolla1987
- Michelangelo '70Astor Piazzolla1987
- La camorraAstor Piazzolla · no clip yet1987
- ContrabajissimoAstor Piazzolla1987
- MumukiAstor Piazzolla1987
- Milonga del ángelAstor Piazzolla1987
- Rosa MorenaFulvio Salamanca · no clip yet1987
- Fuegos artificialesLos Solistas De D'Arienzo · no clip yet1987
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