Amelita Baltar

Amelita Baltar (* September 24, 1940 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine folk and tango singer.

Baltar trained as a teacher at the Catholic University of La Annunziata. She had guitar lessons with Vicente Di Giovanni and singing lessons with María Contreras. Twenty-two year old, she was a member of the folk group Quinteto Sombras, with whom she recorded several plates before 1968 her first solo album released, with whom she won the first prize at the Festival del Disco in Mar del Plata.

Astor Piazzolla noticed her and offered her the role of Maria in a performance of his opera " Maria de Buenos Aires " next Héctor de Rosas. In the following years she sang all the songs that were created in the cooperation between Piazzolla and lyricist Horacio Ferrer, including the famous " Balada Para Un Loco ". She has performed with Piazzolla in Argentina and in Europe, singing on German television premiere of the oratorio " El Pueblo Joven ", the Festival Onda Nueva in Caracas " La Primera Palabra " (1972) and the Maracanazinho in Rio de Janeiro " Las ciudades ".

In 1973, she realized in Argentina with great success the program " Tres Mujeres para el Show" with Susana Rinaldi and Marikena Monti. In the following years she appeared in Lateinaemerika and Europe at concerts, festivals and on television. In 1978 she played in Brazil an album of traditional tango. In 1980, she appeared in the musical comedy " El Club", a few years later in a tango-rock show with music by Alberto Favero in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires.

She joined in 1990 in the Small Circus Comedy in Amsterdam and the Leidse Schowbourg in Leiden on, in 1991 at 1 ª Festival Nacional de Tango de Argentina in Cosquín. The following year she sang at the Teatro General San Martin in Buenos Aires and committed with the concert Amelitango its thirtieth anniversary as a singer. In 1994, she recorded an album with music by Piazzolla and gave two concerts in the Auditorium des Halles in Paris. In 1996 she sang in the inspired their own careers Show " Tanga elements ", which was performed the following year at the Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo and Teatro Nacional de Brasilia.

With the Orquesta de Tango de Buenos Aires, she joined in 1997 at the Teatro San Martin in Guadalajara, Mexico, on, 1998, she sang at the banlieues Blues Festival in Paris. 2001 their album was released " Amelita de Todos los tangos " at Warner Music, and her TV show " Amelitango ", which ran live in Argentina and other Latin American countries, was awarded by Congress in Buenos Aires as culturally valuable. She went on with the show in Switzerland, Holland, France and Finland and presented in Turkey the show La diva Del tango.

Discography

  • Para usted ... (1968 )
  • María de Buenos Aires ( 1969)
  • Amelita Baltar con Piazzolla y Ferrer ( 1970)
  • La bicicleta blanca (1971 )
  • Piazzolla, Baltar, Ferrer ( 1972)
  • Cantándole a mi tierra (1973 )
  • Nostalgias (1978 )
  • Como nunca (1989 )
  • Tanga members ( 1993)
  • Amelita Baltar (1994 )
  • Balada para un loco (1994 )
  • Baltar com Piazzolla (1995 ed Brasil )
  • Astor Piazzolla Colección (1998 Ed. Germany)
  • Leyendas (1999)
  • Referencias (1999)
  • Amelita de todos los tangos (2001)

Weblink

  • Amelita Baltar homepage

Swell

  • Todo Tango - Amelita Baltar
  • Allmusic - Amelita Baltar
  • Amelita Baltar at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Singer
  • Tango
  • Folk singer
  • Argentine
  • Born in 1940
  • Woman
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