El esquinazo francisco canaro biography

          Francisco Canaro dominated tango from to His tangos have a crisp, clear rhythm and are still included in the tanda list at most milongas....

          The early tangos began to be written down, and that encouraged their widespread dissemination.

          Francisco Canaro

          Francisco Canaro

          Portrait of Canaro, c. 1940.

          Birth nameFrancisco Canarozzo
          Born(1888-11-26)November 26, 1888
          San José de Mayo, Uruguay
          DiedDecember 14, 1964(1964-12-14) (aged 76)
          Argentina
          GenresTango
          Occupation(s)Musician, orchestra leader
          InstrumentViolin

          Musical artist

          Francisco Canaro, also known by the nickname Pirincho,[1] (November 26, 1888 – December 14, 1964) was a Uruguayan violinist and tango orchestra leader.

          Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay, in 1888. His parents were Italian immigrants, and later, when he was less than 10 years old, they emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina in the late nineteenth century.

          Canaro.

        1. Around those years, “El esquinazo”, another of his compositions, was prohibited from being played at “Lo de Hansen” because the crowd beat their glasses on.
        2. Francisco Canaro dominated tango from to His tangos have a crisp, clear rhythm and are still included in the tanda list at most milongas.
        3. EL ESQUINAZO.
        4. Quintessentially find here a in D retuned version of El cencerro by Age Akkerman based on a track taken from the Remy Kooij collection.

          5. As a young man he found work in a factory, where an empty oil can, in his skilled hands, became his first violin. Performing in seedy bars initially, he ultimately forged a career that spanned many decades, and his orchestra was one of the most recorded.

          His introduction