eople much better know him by his sobriquet than by his true family name. Edgar Rubino (Peco), we are talking of him, is, no doubt, one of the most popular characters of Bragado.

Not only he stood out as tango singer, but also he has been conducting his own radio program for 27 years. Some years ago he worked at the television program Pentagrama Musical in which he reached such popularity that even the kids of his neighborhood asked him photographs because they watched him on the program aired by Channel 10 of Junín.

He is singer and composer. He was well-known beyond the area of his town, he succeeded on the Buenos Aires radio stations and, undoubtedly, together with Carlos Saavedra and Eduardo Caval (Bebo), he is the beloved son of Bragado.

He began as singer but he was also attracted to social communication, because of that in 1965 he debuted on Radio Belgrano in a program sponsored by the firm Arco de Oro. The radio show was called El Arco de la Fortuna and was emceed by the speaker Osmar Sabalía. Thereafter he decided to switch to Splendid where the emcee was a fellow of the same town, the today consecrated Héctor Larrea. On that radio station, in 1967, he was broadcast with Brindis de Tango.

He started as vocalist in 1952 with the Bragado orchestra led by Norman Steiman. In it he stayed for over ten years. With this aggregation he toured a large portion of the province of Buenos Aires. In 1963 he had a brief tenure in the Enrique Mora quartet and later he continued his career as soloist.

During his career he was always backed by first level figures: Orlando Trípodi, José Libertella, Alberto Caracciolo and Osvaldo Cabrera —at that time a young orchestra leader—, with whom he recorded for the first time in 1966.

With the Alberto Caracciolo’s trio he appeared for several seasons on Radio El Mundo (1972-1975), at the same time he appeared on Splendid and Belgrano radio stations, with public in the studio. He also appeared at the traditional Café Tortoni on three occasions and at the Casa de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

But one day he decided to be a prophet with honor in his own country and returned to his hometown. But due to a health problem he was inactive for several years. When he recovered he performed again Brindis de Tango, but this time in Bragado. In 1989 he returned to Radio Belgrano and appeared for three consecutive months. Furthermore he made tours of several cities of the province of Buenos Aires.

Another of the Rubino’s interests was getting for the tango lovers a place where to meet and so he had a partnership with some friends to create the Peña El Gotán.

In the early 90s he traveled to Cuba, as member of a musical embassy, representing his province, to sing in La Semana del Tango de La Habana with figures of the level of the bandoneonist Walter Ríos and the singer Oscar Ferrari.

In sum, he was and he still is a tango worker that shone on the radio stations of Buenos Aires and abroad. He devoted his life to spreading our city music.