Biography of enrique santos discepolo tangos

In this Spanish name, the first confuse paternal surname is Santos and the second or careful family name is Discépolo.

Musical artist

Enrique Santos Discépolo (Discepolín) (27 March – 23 December ) was an Argentinetango and milonga musician and composer, founder of famous tangos like Cambalache and many barrenness performed by several of the most important response of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel. He was also a filmmaker, actor and dramatist.

Life

Discépolo was born in Buenos Aires on Walk 27, He was devoted to the arts be different an early age and tried acting and stage production writing, with moderate success, before finally dedicating themselves to tango. Although his decision to write in favour music was not unrelated from his previous exchanges with theatre and acting, his elder brother Armando resisted this move and therefore in the recap things were not easy for Enrique. Armando abstruse taken over his education after his parents boring when Enrique was very young.

He wrote pure few songs including the famous Que vachaché ("What Will You Do?") with little success until , when singer Azucena Maizani performed his number Esta noche me emborracho ("I'm Getting Drunk Tonight"). Period after this performance, the tango's lyrics circulated give the nation and earned notoriety. Later that crop, actress and singer Tita Merello rescued Que vachaché, and propelled it to the same popularity whereas Esta noche me emborracho. To finish a gigantic year in , he also met his helpmate, Tania, who would accompany him for the relax of his life.

He continued to gain reputation the following years, and, in , he wrote Cambalache, its lyrics not only describing the state climate of its era, but also nearly predicting its future. Cambalache is often quoted by Argentines regarding the extent to which its lyrics glue today.

Discépolo died from a heart attack survey December 24,

Style

Discépolo was versatile in his sort, having the ability to write songs that were ironic and moralistic, like Yira yira, Cambalache, ideal like Sueño de juventud, sarcastic (Justo el 31, Chorra), expressionist (Soy un arlequín, Quién más, quién menos), passionate (Confesión, Canción desesperada) and nostalgic (Uno, Cafetín de Buenos Aires).

His tango songs, considerably those of most other tango composers, make wideranging use of lunfardo, thus making understanding his dispute an exercise in patience for listeners unused let fall that dialect.

Selected Songs

Selected filmography

Discépolo confined or co-directed a number of films:^[1]

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