Tango vocalist Maria Elena Martínez, better known as Mariel Martínez, was born March 28, 1980 in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a teenager,…
Artist Profiles: Mariel Martínez
Tag: Argentine music
Artist Profiles: Rodolfo Mederos
Argentine bandoneon player, composer and arranger Rodolfo Mederos was born March 25, 1940 in Río de la Plata. As a composer, Rodolfo Mederos covers a…
Artist Profiles: Raúl Carnota
Raúl Carnota was a guitarist, composer and singer who spent many years exploring Argentine folk music. He was born October 30, 1947 in Almagro, in…
Artist Profiles: Pedro Aznar
Composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer, Pedro Aznar is one of the most prestigious and respected artists to emerge from South America in recent times.…
Artist Profiles: Pablo Ziegler
The internationally acclaimed Argentine pianist and composer Pablo Ziegler has been hailed as one of the world’s leading proponent of the nuevo tango. A classically…
Artist Profiles: Pablo Mainetti
Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Pablo Mainetti is one of the best-known and most respected bandoneon players in the world. He completed his studies of…
Artist Profiles: Otros Aires
Otros Aires is a Tango Nuevo group founded originally in Barcelona (Spain) in 2003 but now based in their native Argentina. The band mixes tango…
Artist Profiles: La Chicana
La Chicana was formed in the first months of 1996 by Dolores Solá, Acho Estol and Juan Valverde with the clear intention of producing tango…
Artist Profiles: Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa was born July 9, 1935, in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. She was honored throughout the world as “The Voice of Latin America”…
Artist Profiles: Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro
With the structure of a typical tango orchestra (four bandoneons, three violins, alto, violoncello, double bass and piano), a singer, a sound that has…