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1906, December 26 -BIRTH OF IMPERIO ARGENTINA

Singer (Capricorn) – Adolf Hitler was so enthralled with her that he had Joseph Goebbels request an audience with her; she came and he asked her to film the life of the exotic dancer Lola Montez…at German studios UFA she met Marlena Dietrich with whom, credible rumors said, she had a lesbian affair..but the night of “Kristalnacht” opened her eyes on Nazism and she left…nevertheless it was true that her political sympathies were with fascism; during the period of dictatorship she was one of “Franco’s Untouchables”; for a time she was boycotted in New York, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires…she was born in the neighborhood of San Telmo, Buenos Aires to a guitarist English father and an actress mother from Spain…when she was six years old she debuted as “Petit Imperio” at the Comedia Theater in Buenos Aires…Now back in Spain, she debuted at Madrid’s Romea Theater in 1924…when she was only 21 years she auditioned for Spanish Director Florian Rey who was so taken by her that he not only offered her the lead role in the film “La Hermana San Suplicio”, he also insisted that she sing in it even though it was a silent film; it was an immediate hit….

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Seven years later Rey would divorce his wife and marry Imperio; together they would produce Spain’s most successful films in the pre-civil war era…the marriage however, lasted only briefly and she then married the Count of Cabezuelas Ramon Baillio in a storybook church ceremony but when she divorced him, she incurred the wrath of the catholic church…she starred alongside Carlos Gardel in two films “La Casa Es Seria” and “Melodia de Arrabal”; the later made her enormously popular in the United States; following an appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York, a star-struck, young Fidel Castro timidly approached her and presented her with a sketched portrait…in 1992 at the age of 82 years old and practically forgotten she made an appearance  at the World Exhibition in Sevilla Spain where she thrilled the audience and earned a standing ovation…at the age of 93, ill and bedridden, reflecting on her life she became solemn for a moment remembering the painful passing her two children while they were still young and then, suddenly, she her face lite up, she asked her granddaughter Teresa for her castanets and died singing

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2010
12/26
CATEGORY
Argentinean
Capricorn
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2002, October 10 – PREMIERE SHAKIRA’S “OBJECTION TANGO”

VIDEO…Objection Tango was written and composed by Colombian pop star Shakira for her 2001 breakthrough English album “Laundry Service”…based on the Cumparsita, it is the first song written by Shakira purely in English…it reached #55 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and became a hit on MTV’s TRL peaking at #1 and staying on the countdown for 45 days…Shakira (born February 2, 1977, Aquarius) she is the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100

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The music video opens with Shakira and her ex-lover doing a tango…when the tango stops, he leaves, the music picks up, and Shakira begins dancing…Shakira goes to a club where she finds her ex-lover and his new girlfriend, played by porn star Tabitha Taylor...an animated sequence begins in which Shakira pokes holes in the new girlfriend’s breast implants and knocks her ex-boyfriend through a window into another room…interestingly, the bandoneon, on the off-beat, turns into an accordion.

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2010
10/10
CATEGORY
Aquarius
Bandoneon
Recordings
Video
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1933, August 31 – birth of SUSY LEIVA

 Singer (Virgo) – born in Buenos Aires and raised in Mendoza, she began singing as a teenager…her first break occurred when she was invited to sing on Radio Belgrano where she garnered great acclaim…a key event in her career occurred on May 1, 1954 where at an annual convention of unions, presided over by Juan Peron, she won “Miss Workers’ Day”… she was invited to join the Juan Canaro orchestra with whom she  toured Japan and several south american countries.

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In Mexico at the house of Libertad Lamarque,  Mariano Mores happened to be present and an impromptu performance impressed him so much that he asked her to join his orchestra. She began to sing his composition “Frente al Mar” which catapulted her to great fame and was to become her trademark tango. Returning from a performance in Rosario, with her husband at the wheel, they crashed into a trailer hitch and she died instantly at the age of 31.

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  •  CLICK HERE – http://tiny.cc/SLeiva to hear Susy sing her trademark tango “Frente al Mar”   from the film  “Buenas Noches Buenos Aires” written by Mariano Mores with lyrics by Rodolfo Taboada
2010
08/31
CATEGORY
Virgo
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1905, August 25 – birth of CELIA GAMEZ

Singer, Actress (Virgo) – born in Buenos Aires where she was a struggling tango singer…in a  moment of  inspiration she decides to go to Madrid Spain where through a lucky break she is catapulted into stardom. Over time she metamorphosed into the queen of Spanish musicals. She was beloved by the public at all levels; the aristocracy, the military and the common folk.

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 She was even popular with the Franco dictatorship though her personal life was scandolous including hints of lesbian affairs. At one of her weddings, enraged women tried to tear off her white dress which they saw as an affront to values of purity. At the end, she returned Buenos Aires where she died from complications of Alzheimers in a rest home at the age of 87.           

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2010
08/25
CATEGORY
Virgo
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1905, August 17 – birth of ADA FALCON

Singer…(Leo)….born in the center of Buenos Aires…rumored to have been the love child of an argentine nobleman…she begins to sing at age five as “La Joyita Argentina” (the little Argentinean jewel)….at age 13 she stars in her first film “El Festin de Los Caranchos”

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She becomes immensely rich and famous…conceited, haughty, accused of acting like “an american diva”…suddenly at age of 37 she mysteriously gives up everything  and enters a monastery of tertiary nuns to live in poverty…she never said why but some think that it was because of her tragic love with Francisco Canaro

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  • CLICK HERE to hear her sing “Ilusion Marina”, c. 1930, written by Antonio Sureda (lyrics by Jeronimo Sureda) http://bit.ly/AFalcon
2010
08/17
CATEGORY
Films
Leo
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1955, 4 August – birth of Mariana Avena

Singer… (Leo) in the neighborhood of Palermo, Buenos Aires…descendant of a tango family…her grandfather was a bandoneon player with the orchestras of  Juan “Pacho” Maglio and Osvaldo Fresedo…her uncle Osvaldo Avena was a renown quitarist and composer

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She begins her career at the age of 17…her big break came when she was invited to be the lead singer of a renown group in Brasil

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  • Click here to see her sing the classic “Vuelvo al Sur” (Iam returning to the South) written by Astor Piazzola (Lyrics by Fernando “Pino” Solanas)  http://bit.ly/MAvena
2010
08/14
CATEGORY
Leo
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