his versatile and multitalented musician was born in the neighborhood of Villa Urquiza. In his teen years he was a concerto piano player and played jazz and bossa nova. In his early stage he joined several jazz orchestras in his three-fold character as pianist, trumpet player and arranger. Among them we can highlight the Armony Club, Los Universitarios, Pennsilvannia Jazz and his collaboration with maestro Hernán Oliva.

When he was only fourteen he was called to join the jazz group led by Lex Allen, an English guitarist, on his way through Argentina. In a two-year tenure with the latter he went on a tour of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela. In 1958, he was hired by the Dave Murphy orchestra and started a tour throughout the American continent. In 1964, he had a brief tenure with the famous aggregation Los Gavilanes de España.

Up to this point, let us say, that all that Repetto had done had no connection with tango, except for a sporadic appearance in the orchestras fronted by Enrique Campos and Ricardo Malerba.

When he graduated as attorney he quit music for a time but he kept on meeting with friends in long jam sessions. These meetings took place in the secretary of universitary extension of the Universidad de Belgrano.

Two years later, and beyond anybody’s imagination, he was summoned by Oscar Alonso to put together a group for backing up his recitals.

And in 1975, due to a suggestion of the rector of the Universidad de Belgrano, he formed a quartet to appear at a festival organized by that institution. So UB Tango was born. It was lined up by Lucho (piano and leadership), Tito Farías (bandoneon), Orlando Gómez (guitar) and Miguel Ortiz (bass).

This aggregation formed exclusively for that festival ended up being hired by Julio Lagos for his program on TV Channel 13. From then on several appearances in different theaters in the federal capital took place and, later, they toured the interior of the country.

In 1982, Lucho and his UB Tango were awarded with the Premio Revelación del Festival de La Falda. Besides the award there was a contract to appear at the mythical Café de los Angelitos, on Rivadavia and Rincón. So they were the musical background and accompaniment for several consecrated artists: Jorge Casal, Raúl Berón, Roberto Rufino, Jorge Durán, among others.

Furthermore, they appeared at the Café Nacional and Lucho was the musical director for Reynaldo Martín, Carlos Cristal, Alberto Podestá and Tito Landó. In 1983 they were hired by Ruth Durante with whom they collaborated uninterruptedly until 2003. The group also shared the bill with Roberto Goyeneche at different venues in Buenos Aires.

They also appeared as quintet at the Edmundo Rivero’s El Viejo Almacén with Lucho (piano and leadership), Edgardo Acuña (guitar), Enrique Casella (bandoneon), Orlando Gómez (bass) and Oscar Picciuoli (oboe and baritone sax).

They cut a large number of records, we shall highlight some albums: UB. Tango en Azulnoche, with Oscar Galván and Jorge Quiroz on vocals; A Mis Amigos, with Juan Carlos Mareco, Luis Filipelli, Gabriel Reynal, Gabriel Mamone, Fernando Rodas and Mónica Giuliani; Entre Vos y Yo, with Filipelli; Todavía Puedo, with Virginia Luque and Cacho Castaña; Azul Buenos Aires, with Jorge Sobral, Marcela Ríos and Claudio Mistral; El Estilo Inconfundible de Lucho Repetto, with Sandra Luna, Jorge Guillermo, Roberto Salinas and the Cantango group; Dale Tango, with Sergio Masal.

From his oeuvre we can mention firstly: “Noviembre cinco”, a number used as theme song in several radio and television programs; followed by: “Mi sinfonía”, “Por la vida con vos”, “Ariana”, “Patipé”, “Charco y nube”, “Payador urbano”, “Barroc tangó”, “Azul Buenos Aires”, ”Sueño infiel” and “Derecho sagrado”, the latter three with words by Alcides Omar Oviedo and Roberto Peláez.