Tango - Tango

Born: September 16, 1945 in San Martín (Greater Buenos Aires). Tanguito was a Rock & Roll and beat musician and composer, known for being one of the first authors to play Rock & Roll in Spanish, and co-authoring the hit song of the era, [i]La Balsa[/i]. He was part of the bohemian beat pub of [i]La Cueva[/i], a place frequented by many of the founding fathers of Argentine rock, including artists [a=Litto Nebbia], [a=Billy Bond (2)] and [a=Sandro]. On 1968 he made his first single under the alias of [a=Ramsés VII] for the RCA, but it didn't sell well and the contract was cut off. The same year, he gave away the song [i]Sutilmente, a Susana[/i] to the group [a=Los Naufragos]. He composed it when he was 16, probably the first Spanish Rock song ever composed. He was meant to record an album at [a=Jorge Álvarez]'s label [i][l=Mandioca][/i], but it was cancelled because he didn't attend to most recording sessions. He later had his song [i]Natural[/i] included in [b]Pidamos Peras a Mandioca[/b], a compilation from the label, which received very positive critics. He had problems with amphetamines and was, like most Argentine underground musicians of the era, persecuted by the police. On 1970 he was arrested and taken to a mental institution, where he was subjected to electroshock therapy. In 1972 he was declared insane. Tanguito died on May 19, 1972, in unclear circumstances. Escaping from the clinic in the morning, he managed to reach a train station in Palermo (Buenos Aires), where he apparently hoped to board a train to his parents' home, but he fell on the tracks and was fatally hit by an oncoming train. Some believe he was murdered. Many of his recordings, some reworked, got released posthumously on the album [b]Tango[/b], in 1973, and then reissued in 1985, during the national rock revival.

Released: 2017

Label: Talent (4), Sony Music

Country: Argentina

Tracklist

A1	Natural
A2	Todo El Día Me Pregunto
A3	El Despertar De Un Refugio Atómico
A4	Diamantes De Espuma
B1	Amor De Primavera
B2	Jinete
B3	Balada De Ramsés 7ª
B4	La Balsa