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Héctor De Rosas
Héctor De Rosas (2 October 1931 – 26 July 2015), whose real name was Héctor Ángel González Padilla, was an Argentine singer dedicated to the tango genre with a long career in his country. Early years His father, named Manuel, was a Spanish immigrant who worked for the railroad and was transferred to Tucumán Province, Tucumán, where he met his mother, named Rosa. They got married and returned to Buenos Aires, where De Rosas was born. Much later, after retiring, Manuel worked as a caretaker at the Pedro de Mendoza school-museum, where the painter Benito Quinquela Martín, Quinquela Martín had lived, in the neighborhood of La Boca, across from the Matanza River, Riachuelo River. Professional career Advised by the singer Martha de los Ríos, De Rosas studied singing from the age of 10 to 23 with Professor Ricardo Domínguez. At 15, he won the "male singers" category in a Radio Belgrano contest sponsored by ''Radiolandia'' magazine, which had 12,000 participants. The priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area 16.7 million, making it the List of metropolitan areas, twentieth largest metropolitan area in the world. It is known for its preserved eclecticism, eclectic European #Architecture, architecture and rich culture, cultural life. It is a multiculturalism, multicultural city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of Immigration to Argentina, im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolfo Galé
Juan Dionisio Tobares Galletti, better known by his stage name Rodolfo Galé (26 December 1928 – 25 October 1972) was an Argentine tango singer. He stood out for his baritone-range voice, with a deep and powerful tone. Much of his career took place during the 1950s, when he performed as a singer in tango orchestras led by figures such as Florindo Sassone, José Basso, and Carlos Di Sarli. Later, he was also part of the orchestras of Roberto Caló and Francisco Canaro. Throughout his career, he performed numerous classic tangos and waltzes, becoming part of the so-called "Golden Age" of Argentine tango. Life Rodolfo Galé was born on December 26, 1928, in the city of Mendoza, Argentina. He was orphaned at a young age and was raised by his older sisters. From a very young age, he showed an interest in music and singing, especially tango. At the age of 15, he won a new voices contest in Mendoza by performing the tango ''Melodía de arrabal'', which encouraged his artistic vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Deaths
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1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Juárez
Rubén Juárez (5 November 1947 – 31 May 2010) was an Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango. Early life He was born in Ballesteros, in the province of Córdoba on 5 November 1947 and raised in Avellaneda (south of Greater Buenos Aires). Juárez studied the bandoneón from the age of six. In 1956, he entered the Youth Orchestra of Club Atlético Independiente. His corresponding studies of the guitar during his youth led him to integrate various rock bands into his repertoire. Music career Years later he met the guitarist Héctor Arbello around the time that they both played together with Julio Sosa. Subsequently, they formed a duo with, and they began to tour around the country. When the bandoneonist Aníbal Troilo (1914–1975) went to watch him the first time, Rubén asked him to be his artistic godfather. On 2 June 1969 he recorded his first song with the label Odeón ''Para vos, canilla'', and that was an immediate success. After a year, he was recruite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Cosens
Rubén Mario Cosentino (1 September 1935 – 20 August 2001), best known as Marty Cosens, was an Argentine singer, actor, television presenter and record producer. Life and career Born in Buenos Aires, Cosens started his career on stage, and then became popular thanks to radio. He had his breakout in 1960, thanks to a number of twist hit songs from his album ''Explosivos''. Starting from the show ''Tropicana Club'' that he co-hosted with Chico Novarro, he also worked as a television presenter. In 1972 he moved for several years to Mexico, where he successfully continued his acting and musical career. Returned to Argentina, he starred in the first Argentine stage version of ''Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...'', topped the charts with the album ''El pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl Luzzi
Raul, Raúl, Raül, and Raüll are forms of a common first name in Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Galician, Asturian, Basque, Aragonese, and Catalan. The name is cognate of the Anglo-Germanic given name Ralph or Rudolph and the French Raoul, and is derived from Old English Rædwulf through Radulf.Entry 'Raul' in th inforpedia.pt website. Accessed on 2023-03-19. It is also a popular common boy name in . The name is usually spelled "Raul" in Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquiles Roggero
Aquiles Roggero (12 March 1913 – 21 December 1977) was an Argentine musician, pianist, conductor, and composer. Life Aquiles Roggero was born in Pehuajó, Argentina, the son of Luisa Guallini and José María Roggero. He was the cousin of singer, guitarist, composer, and actress Virginia Vera (1898–1949). Between 1936 and 1939, he was the pianist for the Vitaphone orchestra, which was led by his fellow townsman and friend Osmar Maderna. In 1940 and 1941, he joined the orchestral group "Los Rítmicos," and years later, Maderna, who had already left Miguel Caló's orchestra, invited him to join his newly formed one. In 1951, Maderna died in a plane crash, and Aquiles took over conducting his friend’s orchestra, which would be called the "Osmar Maderna Symbolic Orchestra." In 1960, the orchestra disbanded, and Roggero went on to be a member of the groups led by Leopoldo Federico, Miguel Caló, and the "Orquesta Típica Porteña" directed by Raúl Garello Raul, Raúl, Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astor Piazzolla
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed '' nuevo tango'', incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of Tango music". Biography Childhood Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1921, the only child of Vicente "Nonino" Piazzolla and Asunta Manetti. His paternal grandfather, a sailor and fisherman named Pantaleo (later Pantaleón) Piazzolla, had immigrated to Mar del Plata from Trani, a seaport in the southeastern Italian region of Apulia, at the end of the 19th century. His mother was the daughter of two Italian immigrants from Lucca in the central region of Tuscany. In 1925 Astor Piazzolla moved with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Sobral
Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese . It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' had been rarely given in Western Christendom since at least the 6th century. The popularity of the name however develops from around the 12th century, in Occitan in the form ''Jordi'', and it becomes popular at European courts after the publication of the ''Golden Legend'' in the 1260s. The West Iberian form ''Jorge'' is on record in Portugal as the name of Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (1481–1550). List of people with the given name Jorge * Jorge (footballer, born 1939), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (footballer, born 1946), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (Brazilian singer), Brazilian musician and si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito Reyes
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito ( ; , ), was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he led the Yugoslav Partisans, often regarded as the most effective Resistance during World War II, resistance movement in German-occupied Europe. Following Yugoslavia's liberation in 1945, he served as its Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, prime minister from 1945 to 1963, and President of Yugoslavia, president from 1953 until his death in 1980. The political ideology and policies promulgated by Tito are known as Titoism. Tito was born to a Croat father and a Slovene mother in Kumrovec in what was then Austria-Hungary. Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
