Suite argentina cacho tirao biography

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For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Biography [ edit ]. Artistic trajectory [ edit ]. Discography [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Authority control databases. I prefer to highlight another side of his career: his original way of conceiving shows. In other shows he included numbers that he played with exotic instruments: a fifteen-string lute and a twelve-string guitar, and other instruments not usual for him to play: charango and banjo.

His oeuvre as composer is varied and interesting. The last three above numbers belong to his last recording: Renacer.

Suite argentina cacho tirao biography

Finally, we cannot say a portrayal of Cacho Tirao is complete if we do not mention, at least shortly, two painful pasagges of his life. In February , his daughter Alejandra, while playing with his brother Gabriel —fourteen years old—, with a gun she thought was a toy gun shot him dead. The tragedy left marks: firstly, a stubborn asthma that lasted up to his final day and later, a hemiplegia.

He recovered only five years later. From both misfortunes he was able to pull himself together thanks to his religious faith and his incredible will power. His own words acknowledge this: «I have two choices left: to find the true faith or getting angry. By that time I picked up saxophone again and that helped to widen my air capacity to face an asthma that appeared when I was rather old.

In a month-and-a-half time I wrote 24 charts for the sextet. So much so that a friend, the English guitarist David Caswell, came to our country to produce a record —which included Argentine guitarists— to help Cacho with the money collected by its sale. One autumn in Buenos Aires he passed away after a heart attack when he was in an ambulance that was taking him to the Hospital Argerich.

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