Amelita Baltar
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Amelita Baltar (born September 24, 1940 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine folk and tango singer.
Life
Baltar trained as a teacher at the Catholic University of La Annunziata . She had guitar lessons with Vicente Di Giovanni and singing lessons with María Contreras . At the age of twenty-two she became a member of the folk group Quinteto Sombras , with whom she recorded several records before releasing her first solo album in 1968, with which she won first prize at the Festival del Disco in Mar del Plata.
Astor Piazzolla noticed her and offered her the role of María in a performance of his opera “ María de Buenos Aires ” alongside Héctor de Rosas . In the following years she sang all the titles that were created in collaboration between Piazzolla and the lyricist Horacio Ferrer , including the famous " Balada para un loco " . She performed with Piazzolla in Argentina and Europe and sang the world premiere of the oratorio "El Pueblo Joven" on German television , "La Primera Palabra" (1972) at the Onda Nueva Festival in Caracas and "Las Ciudades" at the Maracanãzinho in Río de Janeiro .
In 1973 she realized the program “Tres Mujeres para el Show” with Susana Rinaldi and Marikena Monti with great success in Argentina . In the following years she performed in Latin America and Europe at concerts, festivals and on television. In 1978 she recorded an album with traditional tangos in Brazil. In 1980 she appeared in the musical comedy "El Club" , and a few years later in a tango rock show with music by Alberto Favero in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. In 1988 she presented her new album Como Nunca in Argentina and Chile.
In 1990 she appeared in the Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam and the Leidse Schowbourg in Leiden, and in 1991 at the 1ª Festival Nacional de Tango de Argentina in Cosquín. The following year she sang at the Teatro General San Martin in Buenos Aires and celebrated her 30th anniversary as a singer with the concert Amelitango . In 1994 she recorded an album of music by Piazzolla and gave two concerts in the Auditorium Des Halles in Paris. In 1996 she sang in the show "Tangamente" , which was inspired by her own career and which was performed the following year at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo and the Teatro Nacional de Brasilia .
She performed with the Orquesta de Tango de Buenos Aires in 1997 at the Teatro San Martin in Guadalajara, Mexico, and in 1998 she sang at the Banlieues Blues Festival in Paris. In 2001 her CD "Amelita de Todos los Tangos" was released by Warner Music, and her TV show "Amelitango" , which ran live in Argentina and other Latin American countries, was recognized as culturally valuable by the Congress in Buenos Aires. She performed with the show in Switzerland, Holland, France and Finland and presented the show La diva del tango in Turkey .
Discography
- Para usted ... (1968)
- María de Buenos Aires (1969)
- Amelita Baltar con Piazzolla y Ferrer (1970)
- La bicicleta blanca (1971)
- Piazzolla, Baltar, Ferrer (1972)
- Cantándole a mi tierra (1973)
- Nostalgias (1978)
- Como nunca (1989)
- Tangaments (1993)
- Amelita Baltar (1994)
- Balada para un loco (1994)
- Baltar com Piazzolla (1995 ed.Brazil)
- Astor Piazzolla Colección (1998 Ed. Germany)
- Leyendas (1999)
- Referencias (1999)
- Amelita de todos los tangos (2001)
Web links
- Homepage of Amelita Baltar
- Todo Tango - Amelita Baltar
- Amelita Baltar on Allmusic (English)
- Amelita Baltar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baltar, Amelita |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian folk and tango singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |