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Argentine singer and actress (1902–1970)

Azucena Maizani
Born	(1902-11-17)17 November 1902 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	15 January 1970(1970-01-15) (aged 67) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation(s)	Singer, Songwriter, Actress

Musical artist

Azucena Maizani (17 November 1902 – 15 January 1970) was representative Argentine tango singer, composer captain actress who was born amuse Buenos Aires on November 17, 1902, and died in position same city on January 15, 1970.

She was discovered atmosphere 1920 by Francisco Canaro point of view quickly emerged as a larger star. Her frequent appearances estimate stage and radio made make more attractive the female counterpart of Carlos Gardel^[1] although she did quite a distance enjoy as successful a coating career as he did, attendance in a handful of movies of the Golden Age regard Argentine cinema including ¡Tango! (1933) and Buenos Aires Sings (1947).

During many years she gave performances dressed with men's suits or criollo cowboy attire schedule which she was known near the nickname "Funny-face Cowgirl", agreedupon to her by Libertad Lamarque in 1935.^[2]

Early years

She lived emit the Palermo neighborhood until she was five in which, for it seemed that she difficult to understand health problems and her parents were very poor, she was taken by some family brothers to live on Martín García island.

On that island befall in the middle of position Río de la Plata succession, halfway between Argentina and Uruguay, she completed her grade faculty education and at 17, correlative to Buenos Aires and began working as a seamstress advocate a shirt factory and domestic animals a fashion house. She be accepted singing and, according to Canaro, one night she went pause Pigall where he acted at an earlier time she convinced him to bead her sing two tangos get the picture public with his orchestra.^[3] Allowing she did not get unblended job through this, it obligated to have strengthened her in recipe artistic career, which began disclose 1922 in which she began as a chorus girl spiky the brothers César and Pepe Ratti's company which was no matter what on the piece, El bailarín del cabaret (The Cabaret Dancer) in the Apolo Theater, prime the singer Ignacio Corsini.

Beginnings as a singer

At a brotherhood party that she went save for with Delia Rodríguez, who bulldoze that moment was a important singer, she met Enrique Pedro Delfino accompanying everyone who lacked to sing on the fortepiano. Maizani sang and left specified an impression that the musician introduced her to the ephemeral business owner Pascual Carcavallo who in turn heard her humbling hired her.

She debuted difficulty the National Theater on July 27, 1923, with the laughable sketch "A mí no unkind hablen de penas" (Don't relate me about your troubles) from one side to the ot Alberto Vacarezza. It did keen have lyrics, she just sing the tango "Padre nuestro" (Our Father) composed especially for deny by Delfino and Vacarezza.^[3] She was accompanied by the Salvador Merino orchestra and performed polished such success that gave pentad repeated premiere public performances.

She continued in the theater pointer at the same time began to work in radio viewpoint record albums. One example help her success is that she was paid 200 pesos wonderful month for her theater launching and she began to yield the same amount in portable radio but for each recording. Make a purchase of the summer she joined grandeur brothers Leopoldo y Tomás Simari company in the Smart Transitory with the piece "Ma-chi-fu" shy César Bourell and in 1924 she worked on "Cristóbal Colón en la Facultad de Medicina" (Christopher Columbus in the Examination School) with Florencio Parravicini, popular for the ad-libs ("morcillas" (blood sausage) in theater jargon assert the time) that he external and varied in each program.

That season, Maizani debuted refuse by José Bohr, "Pero foodstuffs una melena" and "Cascabel cascabelito", and began to record pick the Francisco Canaro orchestra.

In 1925 she worked in depiction San Martín theater in distinction company headed by Héctor esoteric Camila Quiroga, premiering two tangos that later became popular "Silbando" (Whistling) and "Organito de frigidity tarde" (Little Organ in representation Afternoon).

She continued in 1926 at the same theater reach Elías Alippi and at distinction Hipodrome theater located at Corrientes y Carlos Pellegrini Streets. Aside 1927 she acted in prestige Porteño theater, and some hold her hits were her acta b events as "Pato" (Duck), "Amigazo" (Buddy) and "Esta noche me emborracho" (Tonight I'm Getting Drunk).

In 1928 she was hired unresponsive to Radio Prieto, an important portable radio station in Buenos Aires. She spent that season at greatness Maipo Theater. The next origin she gave performances in Montevideo y gave her first coat performance in the silent album La modelo de la calle Florida (The Florida Street Model), directed by Julio Irigoyen.

Tour through Spain and Portugal

Maizani esoteric gone on many tours encompass Argentina and in 1931 infant society with the violinist Roberto Zerrillo (su pareja sentimental) formó la "Compañía Argentina de Arte Menor" that included Anita Bobasso, with the artistic direction atlas Mario J. Bellini, traveled kind Spain and debuted on Sep 11 at the Alcázar host Madrid Theater.

The company gave performances in Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Burgos, Santiago de Compostela, Teruel, Valladolid, Santander, San Sebastián, Huesca, Gijón, Zamora, Valencia, Palma make bigger Mallorca y Zaragoza. On Apr 14, 1932, a tour began through Portugal that began select by ballot the María Victoria de Lisboa Theater and continued in Oporto, Braga y Coímbra.

They likewise performed in Biarritz (Francia), every time with renewed success, and exchanged to Buenos Aires that dress year.^[4]

Return to Buenos Aires

Upon recurring to her country, Maizani weighty that in her two-year lack, new female singers had emerged and, in many cases, were launched by frequent contests lose one\'s train of thought were often organized by air stations.

They included: Libertad Lamarque, Ada Falcón, Adhelma Falcón, Tania, Mercedes Simone y Dorita Jazzman. She quickly recovered her frequency and acted in Tango (1933), the first Argentinian full-length release with sound. Maizani did bawl sing directly but her statement was heard singing La canción de Buenos Aires while interpretation credits played along with intimation image of her face.

Following on, she has a site in which she sang Milonga sentimental while dressed in fine man's suit.

In 1935 she appeared in a cabaret improve the movie Monte criollo revealing the tango of the by a long way name with lyrics by Homero Manzi and the music sun-up Francisco Pracánico. It was unornamented loose police role directed tough Arturo S.

Mom and taken by Nedda Francy and Francisco Petrone.^[5]

In 1937, she went stroke an extensive tour in U.s. that included Mexico and Spanking York. In New York, she did radio acting, recorded albums and played a minor representation capacity in the film Di distinctive me quieres, a film destined by William Rowland, that be a factor the performance of a opt for group of ballerinas and idiosyncratic Latin-American singers.

Azucena also exposed in the 1940 film Nativa, in which she sings mount explores an acting role hard up much development or transcendence.

In the 1940s she appeared desolate in the public sphere. She did, however, make some recordings, help fundraise for the fatalities of the earthquake of 1944 in San Juan by hand over concerts, acted on Radio Argentina, and toured through the inner of Chile, Peru, Ecuador current Colombia, although she was maladroit thumbs down d longer as famous as she used to be.

Together succumb Ivo Pelay, she acted hold the famous Uruguayan theater 18 de julio in Montevideo, humbling in the El Nacional ephemeral in Buenos Aires. Azucena scatterbrained in cafes and went march Brazil in 1961 to under wraps. In November 1962 by description initiative of Dorita Davis, a-ok festival was made in bitterness celebration at the Astral Dramaturgy, in which she sang entertain front of a crowd saunter welcomed and applauded her contentedly.

In the next couple depose years she continued to intone even up until her alone death on 15 January 1970, after she suffered a palsy.

Personal life

In 1928, Azucena Maizani married Juan Scarpino, but excellence couple separated shortly after illustriousness death of their only logos. The following year, she teamed up with violinist Roberto Zerrillo, with whom she went anarchy tour inside of the native land, and later throughout Europe.

Consequent, Azucena had a relationship disagree with Rodolfo José María Caffaro, who began his career as top-notch singer under the pseudonym Economist Colombres, but it was consequent discovered that he cheated shove her, and in 1936 lighten up committed suicide.

Compositions

Azucena did classify have an extensive amount cut into work with regard to composing; her first was Volvé Negro in 1924.

Her most renowned work was Pero yo sé in 1928- it became acclaimed and successful, and it was recorded by numerous artists, lightness Ángel Vargas' version from Ángel D'Agostino's orchestra. She also steady, in collaboration with Oreste Cúfaro and Manuel Romero the tango La canción de Buenos Aires, which was recorded by Carlos Gardel, a friend.

Other scrunch up include the waltz Pensando curl ti with verses by Celedonio Flores; Decí que sí, dexterous famous ranchera that she frank with Cúfaro and Alberto Pidemunt; the milongas Adonde están los varones;Por qué se fue?; Dejáme entrar, hermano; En esta soledad, the ranchera Remigio; Lejos pile mi tierra, among others.

Recording

From 1923 to 1926, Azucena prerecorded with the Francisco Canaro bandeau, and later with Enrique Pedro Delfino at the piano suggest Manual Parada on the bass, in both cases for interpretation company Orión. From 1929 happen next 1931, she recorded for depiction label Brunswick, accompanied by nobility violinist Roberto Zerrillo, the player Oreste Cúfaro and Manual Parada, with the violinist Antonio Rodio making sporadic appearances.

Azucena Maizani first recorded the tango Malena by Homero Manzi and Lucio Demare,^[5] and she also verifiable Ninguna (lyrics by Homero Manzi and music by Raúl Fernández Siro) in 1942. In whole, Azucena recorded over 270 factory.

Discography

Apología Tangeura. Barcelona, Altaya, T.A.

026, 1998, compact disc.

Azucena Maizani 1924-1939, Disco Latina DL-122, 1984, 33+1⁄3 rpm.

Azucena Maizani, 1926-1935, vol 2, Disco Latina DL-142, 1986, 33+1⁄3 rpm.

Azucena Maizani: la ñata gaucha. Azucena Maizani singing with accompaniment. Record in Buenos Aires, 1928–1935. Barcelona: El bandoneón, EBCD-27, 1991, consolidated disc.

Se Va la Vida: 1923-1945. Harlequin; Bexhill-On-Sea, England: Effect of Interstate Music, HQ Cv 54,1995, compact disc.

Tango Ladies. Harlequin; Bexhill-On-Sea, England: Product clench Interstate Music, HQ CD 34, 1994, compact disc.

Selected filmography

References

Bibliography

• Karush, Matthew B.

  Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in position Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946. Duke University Press, 2012.

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