Archive for the ‘ Villa Puerreydon ’ Category

1937, November 12 – BIRTH OF HECTOR MAYORAL

Dancer, Choreographer (Scorpio) – In 2009  fictionalized film of this man’s life and career it describes him as “the greatest dancer of all time”…he plays himself in the film, The Man Who Dances,  which is a collage of the different stages in his life…he grew up in a tough Villa Pueyrredon neighborhood and had to leave school early [ READ MORE ]

1896, August 3 – BIRTH OF CELEDONIO FLORES

The fascist like overthrow on June 4, 1943 of the elected government did not augur well for poet Celedonio Flores…the dictatorship’s censors, in a misguided attempt to raise the moral level of Argentine society, began to prohibit precisely the kind of language he used to describe the tough underworld which he was familiar with…Celedonio Flores, [ READ MORE ]

1948, July 1 – TANIA RECORDS “CAFETIN DE BUENOS AIRES”

Resigned to his fate, a man looks back and remembers the “Cafetiin”, the small neighborhood tavern, a microcosm of the world which as a curious child he first saw with his nose pressed against the cold window pane...” you taught me to smoke to drink to gamble… it is there that I first learned to dream, [ READ MORE ]

1931, May 31 – BIRTH OF JUAN CARLOS COPES

Dancer (Gemini) – during the dark period of military repression in the 1950s tango, which was associated with the overthrown Peronist regime, was repressed…tango artists were blackballed, jailed, many had to go into exile; lunfardo was banned, tango lyrics censured…Juan Carlos Copes however, was an untouchable…when he was performing, on one side of the theater [ READ MORE ]

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