1938, September 6 – BIRTH OF MARIA NIEVES
Dancer (Virgo)…daughter of simple Galician immigrants… her father dies suddenly, she leaves school in the 4th grade and still practically a child, is forced to work as a maid...Juan Carlos Copes sees her for the first time at the Club Estrella through her sister Nata…eventually she becomes his dance partner but to perform he has to lie about her age; she is only fourteen years old…thus is born a legendary tango dance couple
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When she is of age they marry but the marriage, due to his infidelity, lasts only eight years however their partnership lasts for 50 years… their ideal is Gene Kelly and Chyd Cherise…their brilliant performances include the Ed Sullivan Show
and at the Reagan white house…about tango she says, “’The first time I danced the tango, it entered my skin through my feet, passed from my skin to my blood and through my blood to my heart“
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- CLICK HERE – http://tinyurl.com/MNieves to see Maria perform at the age of 69 to the music of “Patetico” written by Jorge Caldara and performed by the Osvaldo Pugliese orchestra
TODAY IN TANGO ! 