1. Jose Alberto Iglesias, better known as Tango or its diminutive Tanguito or Ramses VII, was an Argentine rock singer-songwriter.
22 Facts About Tanguito
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Tanguito later worked for Mandioca, Argentine rock's first independent record label founded by producers Jorge Alvarez and Pedro Pujo in 1968.
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Tanguito was arrested on several occasions and later hospitalized at the Hospital Borda, where he was subjected to electroshock therapy.
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That same month, Tanguito escaped and lost his life under the San Martin train.
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Tanguito's family lived in a modest house in the town of Caseros, close to the city of Buenos Aires.
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Tanguito gained local fame as a rock and roll dancer, while most people in the suburbs were tango dancers.
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Many of them were struggling with writing rock lyrics in Spanish, and Tanguito was initially perceived as a novelty act, who could sing energetic Elvis Presley covers in broken English.
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When Tanguito once ranted in the cafe's washroom about being alone and sad in the world, Nebbia encouraged him to write a song based on his refrain.
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Tanguito obliged, and Nebbia added a choir with a vaguely bossa nova air.
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Tanguito would take credit for other people's songs, including the ribald song "Errol Flynn" which was popular in the summer of 1968.
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All of Tanguito songs are credited to "Ramses VII", one of his many pseudonyms, after the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses and Tango's affectation for seventh chords.
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When Tanguito broke with RCA he found a new home in Mandioca, a label dedicated exclusively to rock, which immediately arranged for studio time.
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Tanguito would get arrested repeatedly for vagrancy or inebriation and be left unattended in a detention cell.
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One such episode in late 1970 was so damaging to his mental health that Tanguito became unable to recognize his friends, and was taken home by his mother for recovery.
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In February 1971, Tanguito was arraigned and charged with heading a drug gang.
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Tanguito escaped from the hospital on the dawn of May 19,1972.
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Argentine rock was to become a seminal influence in rock en espanol; Tanguito provided the first real hit of that movement as well as many sketches that were freely used by others.
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Argentine author Miguel Grinberg, who was involved in that scene, has said [1] that Tanguito influenced the transition of Argentine rock from English to Spanish more than anybody else.
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The emphasis created friction with Nebbia, who felt that Mandioca was claiming Tanguito was the song's sole author.
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In 1989, a television show named "Tanguito" starring Emilio Bardi was aired in the "Especiales de ATC" program on.
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The movie dramatized the life of a rock singer, obviously based on Tanguito, referring to the political and social climate of Argentina in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Tanguito took artistic license in the plot of the movie, since the real-life Tanguito was not active politically and did not comment on the events that shook Argentina such as the 1969 Cordobazo, even though his "hippie" image might have influenced his ordeals with the police.