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Tango in Montevideo by Eckart Haerter |
 | | Tango in Montevideo, that is of course "La Cumparsita", too, the most famous tango in the world, composed by the Uruguayan Gerardo Mattos Rodríguez and almost something like Uruguay's second national anthem. |
 | | Other famous Uruguayans were, for example, Francisco Canaro and Julio Sosa (and there is the ineradicable story of Carlos Gardel being born in the Uruguayan town of Tacuarembó... |
 | | Many Uruguayan tango musicians are working permanently abroad, only now and then coming back to their home country, like the leader of the New York Tango Trio, bandoneonist Raul Jaurena, or singer and guitarist Alfredo Sadi, who lives in Buenos Aires, or bandoneonist Enrique Tellería in Barcelona, Spain. |
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