Hugo Romani

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Hugo Romani ( Francisco Antonio Bianchi ; born December 23, 1919 in Mendoza , † October 16, 2016 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine singer.

Bianchi attended the Don Bosco School of the Salesians and in 1940 began to work for the Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales . In the same year he visited Juan Díaz André , a tenor at the Teatro Colón . He confirmed his extraordinary voice, trained him within three months and gave him the stage name Hugo Romani. He performed for two months at the radio station LV 10 in Mendoza and then went to Buenos Aires, where the composer and conductor of the orchestra of Radio Splendid , Alejandro Gutiérrez del Barrio , hired him. After a short time he had prime-time appearances there such as the singers Libertad Lamarque , Hugo del Carril , Amanda Ledesma , Charlo and Alberto Gómez and the tango orchestras of Juan D'Arienzo , Anibal Troilo , Angel D'Agostino , Osvaldo Pugliese , Enrique Rodríguez , Miguel Caló , Francisco Canaro , Genaro Salinas , Gregorio Barrios , Fernando Torres , Leo Marini and Fernando Albuerne .

From 1944 he performed regularly for three years in a luxury restaurant in Buenos Aires, where he met musicians such as Enrique Santos Discépolo , Enrique Cadícamo , Homero Manzi , Cátulo Castillo , José Razzano and Homero Espósito . In 1945 the first recordings were made on the Odeon label. In 1947 he made his debut with Radio Cultura in Caracas. In 1948 he appeared in César de Alencar's program at Nacional Río de Janeiro . In 1949 he was engaged for the Caravana Camel program at Radio Continental in Caracas, on which, among others, Pedro Vargas , Juan Arvizu , Alfonso Ortiz Tirado , Elvira Ríos , Ana María González , Néstor Chaires , Gregorio Barrios , Chela Campos , Toña la Negra , María Luisa Landín , Fernando Fernández , Alfredo Sadel , Héctor Cabrera , Mario Suárez and Chucho Martínez Gil took part.

In the early 1950s, Romani lived in Colombia for three years, after which he toured Latin America and the United States annually. Renny Ottolina engaged him in 1958 for his television show El Show de Renny and made him co-producer of the show the following year. From 1967/68 he produced the program Topo Gigio for four years for television in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico . In 1982 he withdrew from his activities as an artist and producer.

In 1991 Romani accepted an invitation to the Cien Años de Bolero Cantándole al Corazón event in Colombia and appeared again as a singer with Leo Marini for the first time since the late 1950s. After the successful comeback, Radio Cadena Nacional invited him the following year to the program to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Bogota's founding. At the invitation of Jorge Alarcón , he performed two weeks in the New York nightclub Añoranzas in the same year . After various appearances in Colombia and Mexico (with Juan Bruno Tarraza , Cuco Sánchez , Amparo Montes ) he recorded the CD Cuenta Conmigo in 1994 and an album in 1995 with an orchestra under the direction of Raúl Parentella .

In 1996, Jose Loyola Fernandez , President of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba , invited him to the Festival Boleros de Oro , in which he participated this year and the following. In Bogota he took part in a benefit concert for the Fundacion Sanar under the direction of Maria Isabel Saavedra . In 1999 he presented his new album Cuenta Conmio in Brazil. Even after 2000 he went on concert tours in Latin America and took part in various Bolero festivals.

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personal data
SURNAME Romani, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bianchi, Francisco Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Mendoza (Argentina)
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2016
Place of death Buenos Aires