At only 17 years old, he managed to perform in tanguerías in Flores and Mataderos, where he sang and danced rock. When he finished his performance, the audience made fun of him and harangued him to dance “un tanguito”, a phenomenon that gave rise to his nickname.
In 1963, tanguito joins “Los Dukes” as a singer, with them he makes his record debut performing “Decí por que no querés” by ortega stick.
He began to share the stage with Sandro, Moris, Billy Bond and The Catsthey integrated him into their group of friends and invited him to accompany them to the refuge of the bohemian porteña, a basement in Recoleta called “La Cueva de Pasarotus”.
When “La Cueva” closed, the group moved to “La perla de Once” which became a catalyst, where the most talented musicians gathered, bands were formed and songs were composed that would later become hymns.
In that context, tanguitowho also liked to change his nickname and call himself alternately Ramses VII either They donated the protestmarked the thick strokes for songs like “Amor de primavera”, “The golden princess”, “Natural”, “The remaining man” and, fundamentally, “La balsa”.
“La balsa” is considered the founding stone of national rock, it was finished and adapted by Litto Nebbia and recorded by “The cats”, was published in 1967 and in a few weeks it sold more than 250 thousand copies. It was the only time that Tanguito received good money for royalties, although it is said that he spent all his money on a stereo and hundreds of records that he then forgot in a taxi.
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His break into music coincided with his breakdown due to drug use, when he went from marijuana to injecting amphetamines, his behavior became wandering and self-destructive.
All the opportunities to make the big leap were frustrated by his rudeness, after several arrests, He was referred to the drug addiction service of the Borda Neuropsychiatric Hospital where he was subjected to electroshocks and insulin shocksdestructive treatments abandoned shortly after and that, in fact, are considered abusive by the scientific community.
In May 1972 was judicially declared insane and transferred to the Penitentiary Unit 13 belonging to the same hospital, where he shared the ward with criminals and psychopaths. On the morning of May 19, he escaped from the Borda and went to the “Pacific Bridge”, more precisely to the Palermo station with the intention of taking a train to San Martin, his childhood home.
At 10:50 Tanguito, 26, fell onto the tracks and was run over, no graphic or radio media echoed his death.
Become a cult figure, the image of Tanguito had a kind of rebirth When in 1993 the film of Marcelo Piñeyro “Fierce Tango”a fictional story based on his life, which portrayed him as a misunderstood genius, whose rebelliousness and free spirit had made him a victim of a repressive state, as well as having been betrayed by his friends.
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Despite the controversies, the film was a success, it generated an unusual interest in this artist and in the beginnings of Argentine rock, but fundamentally it ended up turning a cult figure into a myth.
In 2009, another found tape album was released called “I am Ramses”where he also performed songs by Moris.
Source: Ambito
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