he province of Santa Fe has been generous with tango by contributing with important and valuable figures, especially in the field of composition, instrumentalists, singers and poets. Let us mention in the latter field an example of creative capacity and talent: José González Castillo, one of the most important ones.

And this reference helps us to focus on the hallmark of Miguel Jubany’s poetry. Born in Santa Fe in the city of Maciel, in his poetical and song work he was very careful in exalting the literary and aesthetic values to project them to the popular territory. Jubany appears with his early known works, mixed up in the bunch of authors that sprang up in the late 60s and early 70s, making himself be known from the city of Rosario where he settled and has been writing his oeuvre since then.

By that time I had the chance to get acquainted with them (with him and his song production mainly devoted to tango and the expressions connected with the city) and, besides pondering them for their excellent quality and poetical concern, I keep, since then, a friendship that fortunately goes on and has got stronger.

Varied and indefatigable has been Jubany’s activity all these years since then because his work has not been solely limited to his poetical and literary output but also to the defense and spreading of good tango and popular song. He has occupied important positions in the Ministry of Education and Culture of the province of Santa Fe and in private activities. Among other positions: Under Secretary of Culture and Director of LT10 Radio Universidad of Santa Fe. He also directed the cultural supplement of the Rosario newspaper and, at present, he is President and Founder of the Academia del Tango de Rosario, besides being Miembro Académico of the Academia Nacional del Tango de la República Argentina.

He has published several books of songs, of poetry and essays and has devised several radio programs which were aired in different (municipal, national and private) radio stations in the cities of Rosario and San Lorenzo. He has as well appeared on television programs in which he even worked with the collaboration of Domingo Federico with whom he released tangos, songs and music and theater shows of different kinds.

With music by Federico and Roberto Pansera he wrote the show Volveré y seré millones. It is worth mentioning some of his many collaborators in song writing, besides Federico and Pansera, among others: Cholo Montironi, Omar Torres, Santos Maggi, Marcelo Raigal.

It is also worth remembering that his pieces have been recorded by Jorge Sobral, Hugo Marcel, Carlos Acuña, Nelly Vázquez, Carlos Rossi, Noelia Moncada and, in his incursions in folk music, by the Grupo Vocal Atahualpa, Grupo Pilmaiquén and Antonio Tormo, among others.

His work has broadened to giving seminars, courses and chats in different schools, educational institutions and establishments and popular libraries of his province and of the nation, as well as abroad, appearing at different national and international festivals.

In 2012 he presented a double CD with 40 numbers of his own recorded by different artists between 1971 and 2001. His creative task and broadcasting and educational activity do not stop driven by his irrepressible vocation for national and popular poetic-musical values.