Ignacio Corsini

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Ignacio Corsini (February 13, 1891 – July 26, 1967) was a well-known Argentine folklore and tango vocalist. Andrés Ignacio Corsini was born in Troina, a village in the Catania Province of Sicily, in 1891. He was the illegitimate son of Socorro Salomone and a local man whose identity was never revealed publicly—save for his being a Corsini (hence the child's last name). Ms. Salomone left Italy for Buenos Aires, in 1896, and settled in the middle-class Almagro section of the city. They settled in Carlos Tejedor, then a small pampas town where Corsini would spend the remainder of his childhood, finding work as an ox cart driver and herdsman. Corsini returned in 1907 to the Almagro section of Buenos Aires, where he was influenced by folk singer José Betinotti and a circus performer, José Pacheco. Pacheco introduced him to the theatre and to his own dughter, Victoria Pacheco, whom Corsini would marry in 1911. He went on to perform in numerous theatre companies and circuses, and in 1912, he was a awarded a recording contract by RCA Victor. His interpretation of traditional folklore standards earned him singing roles in numerous Argentine films in subsequent years, mostly in period pieces set during Argentina's pastoral 19th century. These included: Santos Vega (1916), ¡Federación o muerte! (1917) and Milonguita (1922). Having never attended a music conservatory, Corsini once attributed his unmistakable falsetto to his bucolic pampas upbringing, recalling that "birds taught me th

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Colección Completa, Vol. 6 (Remasterizado)

El Caballero Cantor del Tango

Grandes Del Tango 31

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Antología Noble Del Tango: Sus Grandes Intérpretes Y Compositores

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La pulpera de Santa Lucía

Colección Completa, Vol. 14 (Remasterizado)

The Roots of Tango - El Resero

Colección Completa, Vol. 28 (Remasterizado)

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Colección Completa, Vol. 33 (Remasterizado)

Ignacio Corsini - La pulpera de Santa Lucia

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Colección Completa, Vol. 19 (Remasterizado)

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