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The Unique Tango Poster
20 May
2014
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• Poster measures: (70 x 100cm / 27,559 x 39,37 Inches )

• 950 illustrious names that make up the history of tango.

• 70 pictures of the most influential composers and musicians.

Now you can buy this beautifull poster in London...

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The first Lyrics of Tango
04 June
2013
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The first Lyrics from 1870 and come from the Andalusian tango. Then local musicians modify those adapting them to the local medium.

Only in the late nineteenth century Tango is considered as such, and begin to have their own professional lyricists. Is unanimously regarded as the first great tango lyricist Angel Villoldo.

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Origin of the word Tango
29 March
2013
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Among the many mysteries that encloses the tango, the first is their own name. The tango voice in African cultures, Hispanic and colonial.

According to some theories, derive from tang tango that one of the languages ​​spoken in the black continent means to feel, touch and approach. Among the Bantu, in addition, there are two languages ​​that are called tanga and tangui.

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