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Artist
Cristobal Repetto
12+ albums
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No tango debut in recent years has been as intriguing and as magical as CRISTÓBAL REPETTO, the long-awaited eponymous album of a 24 year old kid who sings like the high-pitched, nasal masters of yesteryear. And the fact that his introduction to European audiences is in the expert hands of eDGe (in an ever-appropriate display of justice by the celestial music gods) is as appropriate as it is symbolic: according to the Uruguayan press, `Cristóbal Repetto swallowed a grammophone`. It wasn´t the first time Repetto was honored with such analogies. Grammy -and Latin Grammy- winning producer Gustavo Santaolalla once said that Repetto `sounds like those thick 78 r.p.m. records`. Also, Repetto sounds like Repetto, and nobody sings like him. Born in 1979 on a July 9 (national holiday and the name of Buenos Aires´ greatest avenue, which is also the world´s widest and is often mentioned in tangos) in Maipú –a small town–, Repetto grew up surrounded by musicians, peñas (places where tango and folklore are played) and town festivities where he quickly found a way to get onstage and show his early vocal abilities. The music bug was firmly rooted in him during a trip to the Argentine North: Salta, Tucumán, Jujuy, and that first, unforgettable vision of legendary Chango Nieto singing folklore with eyes closed while banging a bombo legüero. A five-year-old Repetto brought a bombo legüero from those travels, and he played the drum incessantly for years, until he literally broke it. At age 13