1940, September 24 – BIRTH OF AMELITA BALTAR
Singer (Libra) – born in Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires, she had originally set her sights on becoming a professional school teacher….she had contemporaneously studied guitar and singing and in time she realized that this would be her life’s vocation…her first break came when she was accepted into the “Quinteto Sombras” , a folk group, with whom she would make her first recordings….In the early 1968, now as a soloist, she cut her first LP for which she was awarded the first prize at the Festival del Disco in Mar del Plata.
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When Astor Piazzolla, looking for a substitute singer for his opera “Maria de Buenos Aires” (the original singer had been his lover and they had broken up) came to hear her, it is said that the first thing that impressed him were her legs but it was her mezzo-soprano, sensual voice which earned her an invitation to join the company…in fact, her interpretation of “Ballada Para un Loco” would become Piazzolla’s first popular hit; it would turn Amelita into an international star…in midst of all this, would develop as
well, a love affair with Piazzolla
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- CLICK HERE – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPL6qAKXDXY to hear Amelita sing “Balada Para Un Loco” written by Astor Piazzolla in 1969 with lyrics by Horacio Ferrer
TODAY IN TANGO ! 