Homage | Alfredo De Ángelis
From "El Portal del Tango"
we pay homage to a big man

Everybody danced with Alfredo De Angelis´s music. This is out of discussion. The characteristic rhythm of this pianist gave a different touch to our "tango". His paricular style called together a lot of people and, although music is slowly changing, it does not lose importance and its freshness talks about its masive aceptation. For some people, this musician born on November,2nd 1911, gave an important influence in order to make the audience like our "tango". At the age of 9 he played the piano in Adrogue cinema and helped to support his home. When he was 13 he moved to Banfield and three years later he came to live in the downtown of Buenos Aires where he was member of an institute. Later he bagan working in Belgrano radio and he was a member of a trio. There he played with a lot of important people and it was very useful for him because it allowed him to be known in the "Ambiente arrabalero". Later he started working in different cabarets playing with famous orchestras. At the beginning he played in Frassano's orchestra, then in Anselmo's, Arieta's, D'Arienzo's, Luis D'Abraccio's and the Italian Lauro's till he started his own orchestra. His most brilliant time was when he was in "Glostora Tango Club", he was there for about 25 years, all the young people that started with him they also retired. It was a stable orchestra. It had a very simple musical conception, so all the people who preferred musical manifestations of very simple harmony liked it. The orchestra gave always a lot of importance to its singers. It was an exponent of the tango without giving more importance to the musical "alardes", and it satisfied the requirements of an audience that chose this type of music. As composer he is the author of:"Pregonera"(Town crier), "La Pastora"(The shepherdess), "Aleli"(Winter gilliflowers), "Mañanita linda"(Nice morning), and "El taladro"(The drill), dedicated to Banfield, his favourite soccer team. His death in 1990 touched the "Ambiente tanguero" and left the memories of an unmistakable style.

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