- From
"El Portal del Tango" we pay homage to a big woman in the
tango
history.
She
was born on April 27th, 1953 in Humboldt (Santa Fe). Her father
was Italian, Ado Falasca; and her mother was Argentine, Paula de Falasca.
Rosanna was the third daughter.She had one sister, María
Cristina, and three brothers: Ado, Daniel and Roberto. Her father and
her brothers were musicians.In an interview done to her father he
described his daugther as intelligent, enterprise and vital girl,
she was loved by everybody.Chany, as she was called, was a sweet girl.
She used to sing in different cities with her family.She started her
career when she was ten, when her family listened to her singing and
realized that she had a big future.One morning her father took her to
sing in front of a microphone and there she started her career as a singer.
When she was twenty she made her debut in her father's orchestra singing
melodic songs in Clusellas (Santa Fe).In 1960 she sang in a radio
show in Santa Fe and with only thirteen she made her debut in front
of television cameras (in channel 13 SantaFe) and then in Entre Rios. In
1967 she returned to television in channel 10 of Córdoba.In 1968
she participated in a
Festival which took place in Rios Cevallos (Córdoba).There were
famous argentine artists there,and she sang in Italian with her father's orchestra
with Daniel and Ado. In January 1969, when she was sixteen years old, her father´s
orchestra played in Rafaela (a Quilmes club). That night the producer
Julio de Martino was there, and after listening to Rosanna, proposed her
father to take her to Buenos Aires, so she travelled to Buenos Aires
with her brother and Carlos Valverde.In March 9th, 1969 she sang in a
Café Concert and continued performing there during a week. In her first travel to
Buenos Aires she had the chance of meeting important people. Later
Rosanna returned to her town to sing with her father. In August 27th,
1969 her father came back to Buenos Aires and presented his daughter in
"Grandes Valores del Tango" (Channel 9). On August she began
performing in "Cabo 710" three times a week. In "Grandes Valores del
Tango" she wan a contest singing the song
"Madreselva" (Honeysuckle). Then she was an exclusive figure
of the channel for four years. She made her debut in 1970, when she was
seventeen years old. Later, Rosanna Inés Falasca started her big career
as an artist, and she started travelling and acting in different provinces.
Some time later she performed in Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and all the
countries of South and Central America. She acted in Mexico, Puerto
Rico, Colombia and Venezuela. She appeared in three films: "Arriba
juventud", "Siempre fuimos compañeros"(We always were
mates) (with Donald) and "Te necesito tanto, amor" (I need you
so much, love) (with Nelli Panizza in 1976). In 1978 she was part of
"La Cruzada joven del Tango" and she worked on the TV show "Botica del Tango". She loved
modern music, oriental
philosophy and yoga.She was called "La princesa rubia
del tango" (The blonde princess of tango), because she was beautiful
and talented, she studied English, French and dance.On November
7th, 1982 doctors diagnosed her cance and she immediaately went under
surgery. In
1983 she was taken by her boyfriend (engineer and industrialist) Luis
Hernandez to a country seat to her recovery, but doctors did not give
more than four years, so her boyfriend decided to advance their wedding.
But it could not be possible because her heart did not work any
more. She died on February 20th, 1983 in Don Torcuato, when she was 29
years old Everybody said goodbye to "Bella niña del Tango" or
"Alondra" as she will be remembered.
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