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The album consists of traditional Italian and Neapolitan songs (e. g. Santa Lucia) as well as then-current contemporary songs like Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu) or Piove which both had risen to international fame after being Italy's entries to the Eurovision Song Contests of 1958 and 1959.
The album featured cover versions of contemporary Italian hits previously recorded by other artists between 1958 and 1962, several of them being entries to the renowned Sanremo Festival. Winning songs of the festival were also Italy's contributions to the Eurovision Song Contest during the respective years.
İbrahim Özgür (1905–1959), dubbed "The King of Turkish Tango" for his singing and composition, after an earlier successful career in jazz. He began tango recordings in 1938. His nostalgic, "velvet" voice was well-suited for his mournful songs, haunted by his unrequited love for an Indian princess he met during his grand tour of Asia in the ...
Bajofondo is a Río de la Plata-based music band consisting of eight musicians from Argentina and Uruguay, which aims to create a more contemporary version of tango and other musical styles of the Río de la Plata region. It was founded in the early 2000s as a studio experiment, which culminated into the successful album Bajofondo Tango Club ...
"Jealous of You (Tango della Gelosia)" is a song written by Vittorio Mascheroni, Peppino Mendes, and Marjorie Harper and performed by Connie Francis. [1] In 1960, the track reached No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] It was featured on her 1961 album, More Greatest Hits. [3]
Early bandoneón, constructed ca. 1905. Even though present forms of tango developed in Argentina and Uruguay from the mid-19th century, there are records of 19th and early 20th-century tango styles in Cuba and Spain, [3] while there is a flamenco tango dance that may share a common ancestor in a minuet-style European dance. [4]
The 1987–88 "Shake the Cage" tour was the first outing for this line-up. It was successful enough to warrant the release of a concert video, also titled Tango in the Night, which was filmed at San Francisco's Cow Palace arena in December 1987. Capitalising on the success of the Tango in the Night album, the band released a Greatest Hits album ...
In September 2014 Tanghetto was nominated for the third time to the Latin Grammys with Hybrid Tango II competing with Rubén Blades, who won. In 2015 they released the album Progressive Tango and got their sixth nomination to the Gardel Awards. Progressive Tango, first promo single, became the number one song played from Tanghetto in Spotify ...