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Carlos Cabral
Real name: Cabral, Carlos Ponciano
Lyricist, poet and writer
(19 January 1887 - 24 September 1960)
Place of birth:
Buenos Aires Argentina
SONGS IN THIS ARTICLE
Abuelito
Tango
El olivo
Tango
ARTISTS IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberto Laporte
Antonio Scatasso
Carlos Gardel
Domingo Julio Vivas
Manuel Jovés
Samuel Castriota
By
Orlando del Greco
n 1923 he published the book of poems
La Canción de la Tarde
, the same year he premiered his first play,
Y empezarás a vivir
, after having worked as journalist in newspapers and magazines.
The above play was followed by:
El rincón de la alegría
,
Una carta brava
y
Se cortó la redoblona
, co-written with Eduardo Trongé;
El procurador Galiniana
with Eleodoro Peralta;
En la timba de la vida
with Juan Caruso;
La sagrada familia
,
Sinvergüenza
,
Un pobre infeliz
,
Mano larga
,
Tío rico y solterón
,
Amarrete
,
Los líos de Godofredo
,
Don Indalecio Frescales
,
Pescamos el candidato
,
¡Qué descansada vida!
,
El caballero alegría
,
¡Pobre Celedonio!
.
He wrote around ten tangos with music by renowned composers like
Manuel Jovés
,
Antonio Scatasso
,
Samuel Castriota
,
Domingo Julio Vivas
and
Alberto Laporte
to be sung on the venues where his plays were staged and in connection with them. Among them, the ones that did not fall into oblivion were “
Abuelito
” and “
El olivo
” (the latter was quite popular) because they were committed to disc by
Carlos Gardel
.
The singer was friend of all the ones mentioned above and also with Cabral he kept a close relationship born in the show business milieu.
Cabral was born in Buenos Aires on January 19, 1887 and also there he died on September 24, 1960.
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