ruguayan newspaper vendor and lyricist. We can say he was an amateur and not a professional author because, in fact, he did not write many songs. He started in carnival bands of street musicians.

His vocation appeared when he read an interview to Carlos Gardel in the Spanish magazine El Mundo Gráfico. In it the singer emphasized that tango lyrics were written by the humble sons of the people.

«In 1927 Gardel —according to this songwriter-, on his way to Spain, was in Montevideo several days. I went to see him at the Café Tupí Nambá of the Plaza Independencia. It was the evening of July 18th. He was with many friends and some soccer players of the Deportivo Español team that had played against Peñarol in the afternoon.

«I approached their table and talked to him about my tango “Farabute” (then Razzano told me: «Go away that I’ll later ask Carlos to record it».)

«When I was leaving the circle, the theater journalist Blixen Ramírez called me and said to me: «Let’s see, sing your tango». I held tightly the newspapers I was carrying and sang for everybody “Farabute”.

«When I finished, Gardel stood up, spread his hand on the table and, firmly holding my hand, he told me these words: «Bravo, kid!... Give me the lyrics, I’m going to sing it with verve and you’ll earn some good bucks».

So he came to know Carlitos Gardel, who besides “Farabute”, time later, recorded his tango “Un año más”, both with music by Joaquín Barreiro.

Casciani was born in Montevideo (Barrio Sur) on January 31, 1901 and there he died on March 11, 1967.