Garua alberto podesta biography

The great lyricist Enrique Cadícamo seemingly had every style at his fingertips, and by the 1940s his songbook was already becoming a resource for more material.

Garua alberto podesta biography

In his famous 1943 tango “Garúa,” he delves into the descriptive, atmospheric type of tango, which he had earlier mastered for the misty dock scenery of “Niebla del Riachuelo” in 1937. Here, the harbor fog sharpens into the hard drizzle of the port city’s winter—garúa as it is called—a relentless presence throughout the song.

This tango also returns to a trope made familiar in another of Cadícamo’s hit songs from the 1930s, “Nostalgias”—the more the speaker wants to get over his lost love, the more she dominates his thinking.

The predicament in “Garúa,” however, seems to have left behind the vintage of the earlier tangos, and to be firmly in the mode of romantic torment which characterizes the new tangos of the 40s. That strain, so often associated with the lyrics of José María Contursi, reaches one of its pi