Listen to "Malena" by Lucio Demare y su Orquesta Típica, with Juan Carlos Miranda in vocals (1942): http://escuelatangoba.com/marcelosolis/files/2017/07/Malena.m4a
Juan Carlos Miranda
Real name: Sciorra, Rafael Miguel. Singer (23 July 1917 - 8 July 1999)
By Néstor Pinsón
It was 1991, somebody introduced him to me and time later I saw him again. It was in his working place, at the Escuela Técnica (Technical School), a branch of the Army located on Cabildo Avenue. There he worked as barber. Several generations of soldiers and non-commissioned officers had known about his scissors.A few years before he still sang in the neighborhood of La Paternal in an old club located on Fragata Sarmiento Street and San Martín Avenue when his retirement was near.
Some of his photographs, taken in the forties, had nothing to do with the present time. The features of that young handsome boy had completely disappeared. Some kind of pathology had spoiled his legs and he had to make an effort to walk with a cane.
It was by that time that I invited him to my program Siempre el tango (Always tango) on Radio Municipal. It took place in the early months of 1992, on occasion of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of the tango “Malena”. Continue reading.
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