Laura Ana Merello was born in San Telmo on October 11th 1904. When she was ten she was already working as a cowherd in a country house in Buenos Aires province. In 1920, she started working as an actress. Everything began when she was walking in front of the Avenida theatre and saw a handbill asking for girls to dance in front of the audience. She did the audience and she was accepted for the play "Las virgenes de Teres" ("Teres´s virgins") which was unsuccessful. Her success started when she sang the Tango "Trago Amargo" ("Bitter drink"). She also worked in the theatre and in  musical comedies. As an actress she made her debut replacing Olinda Bozán in "El rancho del hermano" ("The brother's ranch"). She started to be very popular with "El conventillo de la paloma". In the 30's she popularized two "rancheras": "Los amores en la crisis" ("Love in crisis times") and "Donde hay un mango" ("Where is the money"), both of them talked about the economic situation of the country. She also appeared on some films: "Morir en su ley" ("To die in his law"), (1947); "Arrabalera" (1950); "Pasó en mi barrio" ("It happened in my suburb") (1951); "Gaucho" (1953) and "Para vestir Santos". But her best film was "Los Isleros" ("The islanders"). When Peron's goverment fell she did not have any work, she also had less and less possibilities and she had to start working in amusement parks and circus so she decided to travel to Mexico, where she acted in an Eugene O'Neil's play. In 1957 la "Reina del tango" ("The Tango Queen") as she was named by the "El Mundo" newspaper, came back to our country and she worked on television, where she did "Tangos en mi recuerdo" ("Tangos in my memory"), some series and theatral versions. As a singer she sang, for 5 years, in "Sabados circulares" with "Pipo"Mancera in channel 13.

 

"About her we can say she was a bit excessive, but he had an enormous efficacy. She belongs to the family of actresses who do not only have something to tell but also something to suggest. She is impulsive in her dramatic note, and she knows how to break naturally. She travels through all the transitions with easiness. She is said  to be well educated; she is, at least, intelligent. We do not know aboout her education.Tita is a distant woman. She is a bit "desgarbada". She is always sincere. She loves to show us San Telmo, which was her cradle.

 

According to a magazine, our "Reina del tango" ("The Tango Queen"): "Tita is "Town", is impulse, is the style of woman that the women admire and men are afraid of: intelligent, sagacious and simple"

 

 "She is "Demistificadora" (person that breaks the myths) of myths that became a myth".