is profession connected him with the show business milieu back in 1922, he kept the friendship of an uncountable number of figures of popular music and of theater. Ángel D'Agostino, the later brilliant tango orchestra leader, was his first friend. Time later the others came: Enrique Santos Discépolo, Enrique Delfino, Pablo Suero, Pepe Arias, Azucena Maizani, Rodolfo Sciammarella, Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Enrique Maroni, Vicente de la Vega and so many other artists of our scene knew his unparalleled camaraderie. The great Federico García Lorca also was among them and thanks to the friendship that united them, the Spanish poet was able to give several lectures in Argentina.

In 1926 he met Carlos Gardel in La Boca at a fund-raising party for Juan de Dios Filiberto who was ill. Two years later, in 1928, he traveled to France to further his studies and he became the first partner and, at the same time, advisor of the singer in all his tours of Paris, until 1930 when he came back.

His life is rich in stories shared with Gardel on those days in the City of Light, from his debut at the great cabaret Florida and those spent in his apartment on the Rue de Napoli, where Carlos used to go to fetch him to go out together. That performance at the Paramount Theater is interwoven with other memories, then the great interpreter made a spectacular appearance backed by twenty bandoneons. He went, with his friend Julio Goldaracena (brother of an eminent Argentine medical doctor) to congratulate him in his dressing room. When he saw them dressed with a tuxedo, he ordered: "Go to the stage right now, each one with a bandoneon!" His friends obeyed the command and pretended playing during the performance; they had no idea of fueyes or music staffs! Another story took place when the famous Japanese painter Fuyita married for the second time. Gardel and Alonso were invited and they went with the great French author Henry Bernstein, and they witnessed the unexpected show given by the former wife of the painter who arrived at the party with his new husband.

Or when he was strolling in Nice and found Carlitos having a good time with an elderly lady, he was unable to refrain a mocking laughter to which Gardel replied: "Don’t laugh much, she is a duchess!" In fact, she was a duchess who by that time owned the most important cigarette factory in Europe and the one who made possible the movies that in France the criollo star shot. (Ver el artículo: La verdadera Sadie Baron Wakefield)

In Paris the singer reminded him of a tango that on one occasion he had shown him in Buenos Aires. "Víctor Lomuto has it", (he was appearing there), answered Alonso. He went for it, rehearsed it and recorded it straight away and a few days later it was ready for sale. It was “Por qué me das dique” with music by Rodolfo Sciammarella. Its sample record together with one of his beautiful autographed photographs which read "To my friend and collaborator, affectionately", was delivered to him as a reverie.

In Buenos Aires they met many times more and he was present in his farewell held at a theater on Esmeralda Street, where there were only around 40 people, his closest friends. On his comeback all the people of Buenos Aires was there; the return was when his wings were burnt!

As author he filed in the record a half dozen songs, his first piece was called “Coperita posta”, tango with music by Sciammarella of 1927. He gave others of his songs as gifts but his pencil illustrated the front covers of many popular tangos.

(In La Nación journal of June 18, 1929 Gardel said about Bernstein that besides being his great friend he was the most enthusiastic tango dancer).

Alonso was born in Tucumán on June 17, 1900.