In 1941, on an evening in Sao Paulo the poet met the female singer. Castelli´s research, otherwise Malena (Elena) would have been thirteen years old, possibly, the year 1906 was the correct one.
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Furthermore he exhibited a photograph where he was seen with the full orchestra and a woman also appeared in the picture.įor Héctor Benedetti, in his book Las mejores letras de tango, the singer was born in the province of Santa Fe (Argentina) and, after Vardaro-Pugliese disbanded, she went to Brazil to sing where she recorded with the Héctor Gentile orchestra and where she adopted her pseudonym.Įvidently, and after Moreno´s testimony, the year 1916 might have been a mistake when typing in the newspaper that published Dr. He offered her a job as singer in the orchestra, she agreed and immediately they went on tour throughout the country.Īt a time during the conversation Moreno asked: «Did you know that Malena (Elena) was Chilean? I had her document in my hand and I read born in Chile». In an interview made by Néstor Pinsón, Eduardo Moreno (author of the lyrics of the tango “ Recuerdo” composed by Osvaldo Pugliese) told him that when he was manager and agent for the Vardaro-Pugliese orchestra around 1929, after the gigs they used to go with some friends to a barroom on 500 Maipú Street where they usually met Elena Tortolero, who lived on that same street a few blocks from there. The researcher Raúl Castelli places her birthplace in 1916, without mentioning where, and the place of her death in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, on January 23, 1960. It is said that she spent her childhood in Brazil, in Porto Alegre, where his father was honorary consul of the Spanish government. There he had the chance to go to a cabaret where he heard the female singer Malena de Toledo, artistic name of Elena Tortolero, of whom, we ignore her nationality and any other further personal information. In the late 1941, the poet Homero Manzi, coming back to Buenos Aires from a journey to Mexico, stopped in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tango is nurtured with stories and legends, alternating true chapters with pages definitively inspired by popular imagination.Īs in every story the case of “ Malena” has a true part and consequently, we may accept only that and so finish the issue. They are after something else and so, without knowing, they build a mythology, sometimes with precise information and sometimes with funny stories, but absolutely in vain. Tango lovers are not satisfied with just the beauty of its music or its lyrics. If there is a representative case of this, this is “ Malena”s, that beautiful tango composed by Lucio Demare and with Homero Manzi´s lyrics. Any times we have commented about the need of the tango lovers to incarnate the female protagonists of tangos, that is to say, recognize them in people with a real existence in the present or in the past.
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