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The famous Tango La Cumparsita was written by uruguaian Gerardo Matos Rodriguez in the year of 1917 in the coffee house La Giralda, Montevideo, Uruguay. Gerardo was 17 years old at the time, and in that moment he could not imagine that he was creating one of the most famous tango compositions in tango history.
After seven years he went to Paris, France, where he meet the famous Francisco Canaro, and found out that his tango was a major hit in Paris. Meanwhile, the tango lyricists Enrique Maroni and Pascual Contursi had added lyrics to the tango and renamed it Si Supieras. The next twenty years Gerardo spent in and out of court trying to regain his rights as the author of La Cumparsita, the most famous tango in the world. The tango La Cumparsita is considered the hymn of uruguayan tangos.
Like everything else about tango, there is a disagreement about who first recorded La Cumparsita, but most of the sources in history of Tango Argentino agree that Roberto Firpo was the one who first recorded it with his tango orchestra.
La CumparsitaLyrics & music: Gerardo Matos Rodriguez La Cumparsa
Abandonó a su viejita.
Largo tiempo
Hoy ya solo abandonado,
Entre sombras
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Si SupierasLyrics: Enrique Maroni & Pascual Contursi Si supieras,
Los amigos ya no vienen
Sin embargo,
Al cotorro abandonado
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