Amelita Baltar, Tania y Las Tangueras – Women in Tango

Tania

Today’s edition of today talks about 6 women who have dedicated themselves to tango with all their being.

When the Spanish singer Taniaola Tania was born in Toledo, at the end of the 19th century, she will probably always have been a secret. Because she guarded it with care. Tania, in reality Ana Luciano Divis, was the daughter of a Spanish colonel who led the Municipal Band of Toledo.In 1916, Tania made her debut as a singer of coplas. With his brother and guitarist Antonio Fernández Rodríguez, her later husband, founded Trío Mexicano and toured Spain and Portugal and Portugal to París.

In 1924, she traveledó to Argentina and Uruguay and discovered the tango. Soon she sang with such popular orchestras as Frésedo and Firpo. In 1928, she met and fell in lovó by the legendary poet and composer Enrique Santos Discepolo. They became a couple and Tania premieres some of his most famous songs such as Uno and Confesión.

When I interviewed her in 1995 in her dressing room at the Teatro Alvear, in spite of being almost 100 years old, she told me the role of women in the world of tango in the 1930s and 1940s, how Razzano presented her the famous poet and from her travels with Discepolo through all Europe. Unfortunately, we were interrupted by Amelita Baltar, who brought Tania on stage for a sound check. of the show “Disceplo y nosotras”.

Amelita Baltar

Amelita Baltar, Astor Piazzolla Piazzolla’s long-time companion for many years, had performed Piazzolla and Ferrer’s repertoire exclusively for 27 years. This concert “Discepolo y nosotras” was her idea. As told me Amelita afterés performance, she was very proud of having dared to sing only Enrique Santos Discepolo’s songs. And she was happy that the públic wa enthusiastic about it.

Las Tangueras

Four women accompanied the two singers, the group Las Tangueras. Amelita had suggested this quartet of women to Tania, as it seemed to her to be more suitable than a men’s outfit. And Tania had accepted because she liked the way they sounded. how they sound. During our conversation in 1996 they told me how the group “Las Tangueras” had been formed in 1991 to tour Japan as an all-female ensemble. But In their opinion, it was more important to play well than being a female ensemble.

And in 1996, a few days before our interview, the company has celebrated its 5thº anniversary at the Viejo Alamacen with so many famous guests such as Susana Rinaldi, Amelita Baltar and Horacio Ferrer.

Listen yourselves for yourselves what these three generations of Tangueras, the almost centenarian Tania, Amelita Baltar, Amelita Baltar 55 years old and the Tangueras with their twenty years want to tell us …..

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WIKIPEDIA

Since her beginnings as a folk singer, Amelita Baltar stood out for her voice and the dramatic talent that is manifested in her interpretations. Her first album as a soloist in 1968, led her to obtain the revelation award at the “Festival Nacional del Disco” held in Mar del Plata.

That same year she was heard by Astor Piazzolla who invited her to star in his operita “María de Buenos Aires” composed with Horacio Ferrer. This work, brought to disc, was the beginning of a long and fruitful union. Piazzolla and Ferrer found in her the ideal interpreter and she premiered more than 30 works written by them, marking a historical period of Argentine popular music, reaching its culmination with “Balada para un loco”.

Amelita became A. Piazzolla’s muse, interpreter and accomplice, and the intense years that followed led them to perform together on stages all over Latin America. Based in Paris, their presentations change continually from the Parisian Olympia to the Maracanazinho in Rio de Janeiro.

Separated from Piazzolla, Amelita continues her successful career in Argentina and her continuous tours take her to Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Cyprus, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile and the United States.

She does theater, soap operas, Alejandro Agresti calls her from Holland for a participation in his movie “Luba”. He recorded several albums that were released around the world.

She has received numerous distinctions, among them the MUDAN (Mujeres Destacadas en el Ámbito Nacional – Outstanding Women in the National Sphere) in the National Congress. In the honorable Concejo Deliberante she is recognized together with Ferrer on the 30th anniversary of the creation and premiere of “Balada para un loco” (Ballad for a Madman). She was also distinguished there as an “outstanding cultural personality”.

In the 1990s, together with the contemporary ballet Stagium, she toured most of Brazil with the show “Tangamente” dedicated to Piazzola and herself, reaching theaters such as the famous “Amazonas” in Manaus and the municipal theaters of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, among 20 other venues.