Daniel Melingo
Daniel Melingo or just Melingo (born October 22, 1957 in Buenos Aires ) is a clarinetist, guitarist , saxophonist , composer and singer. Originally coming from alternative rock , he has dedicated himself mainly to Argentine tango as a singer and multi-instrumentalist with his band Los Ramones del Tango since the mid-1990s .
Life
Alejandro Daniel Melingo came into contact with the music business as a child, as his stepfather was the manager of the famous tango singer Edmundo Rivero . He began his musical training with studying the clarinet . After performing with the Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento between 1975 and 1980 , Melingo worked in the independent theater scene of Buenos Aires in the early 1980s under the Argentine military dictatorship . When the restrictions in the cultural field were gradually relaxed after the Falklands War , he had a. a. on a rock opera version of The Island of Dr. Moreau with. Between 1980 and 1982 or 1983 he worked as a saxophonist, clarinetist, guitarist and singer in the band founded in 1967 by Miguel Abuelo with Abuelos de la Nada , who u. a. also Andrés Calamaro belonged. 1982 played at u. a. by The B-52’s influenced band Los Twist , of which he was also a co-founder. From 1986 Melingo lived in Spain for almost ten years , where he led the band Lions in Love .
After returning home in 1994, he published his adaptation of the Argentine graphic novel El Eternauta . Since the mid-1990s, Melingo turned to tango with his publications and has since toured worldwide with his program and the accompanying band Los Ramones del Tango . He has been described in the British press as "the man who made tango seriously cool" . His texts are written in Lunfardo , the “crooks language” of Buenos Aires - they deal with the absurdities of his barrios , serial killers ( Pequeño paria ) or pickpockets. The critic Christoph Buchs called him the " Tom Waits of Tango" . In order to properly interpret his poetry, Melingo began studying classical singing at the age of 43.
On his album Maldito Tango ("Verfluchter Tango") from 2007 u. a. the singer Cristóbal Repetto with.
On Gotan Project's album Tango 3.0 from 2010 he can be heard as singer and clarinetist in the piece Tu Misterio .
With Anda from 2016, Melingo is devoting itself more to world music, rumba classics, fox trots, but also jazz, right through to classical music, compared to the previous albums, which are more oriented towards Argentine tango. He interprets the pieces in a style that again leads to contemporary tango. The critic Jörn Kitzhöfer comments: “In the past, many reviewers drew a comparison between Melingos and Tom Waits ; with Anda, however, this musician acts more like a time-traveling, dreaming vagabond who reads and reinterprets what is known and buried on the way. "
Quote
- “Without pain, you never even think about asking yourself the questions to which you are looking for the answers. Of course, both are also closely related, suffering and tango culture and the topos of falling in love, of desamor, which is very closely related to tango [...]. I also find joy in suffering. The pain makes me happy. "
Awards
- Premios Gardel 2009: Maldito Tango as the best tango album by a male artist
- Latin Grammy 2009: Maldito Tango nominated for best tango album
Discography
- 1995: H2O
- 1998: Tangos Bajos
- 2003: Ufa
- 2004: Santa Milonga
- 2008: Maldito Tango
- 2011: Corazón & Hueso
- 2014: Linyera
- 2016: Anda
Individual evidence
- ^ The Independent (accessed July 7, 2010) ( April 8, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Danza y Movimento (accessed July 7, 2010)
- ↑ Interview with Daniel Melingo on the publication of Maldito Tango by Elke Koepping : Daniel Melingo - Das Tango-Panoptikum des Señor M. In: Tangodanza: Medien (Hrsg.): Tangodanza . tape 34 , no. 02/2008 . Tangodanza Verlag, 2008, ISSN 1438-8847 .
- ↑ Jörn Kitzhöfer: Daniel Melingo - Anda (review) . In: Tangodanza: Medien (Ed.): Tangodanza . No. 01/2018 . Tangodanza Verlag, 2018, ISSN 1438-8847 , p. 77 .
- ↑ Melingo on the album Maldito Tango , see note 3, Tangodanza 2/2008
- ^ Premios Gardel (accessed on July 7, 2010) ( Memento of May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Latin Grammy (accessed on July 7, 2010) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melingo, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Melingo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine tango singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |