Adriana Varela is a female Argentine tango singer, with a successful career that encompasses seven records, as well as minor movie roles.

Summary

Adriana Varela is regarded as one of the main Argentine tango singers of recent times, with a prominent singing career that begun in 1991 with a cassette named "Tangos". Two years later she launched her second record, "Maquillaje", where she also included her previous works. This record would prove very successful, with the special participation of renowned artists such as singer Roberto Goyeneche

Roberto Goyeneche

Roberto Goyeneche was an Argentine tango singer of Basque descent, who epitomized the archetype of 1950s Buenos Aires' bohemian life, and became a living legend in the local music scene.He was known as El Polaco due to his blond hair, and thinness, like the Polish immigrants of the time...

 and pianist Virgilio Expósito. For this album she was awarded the ACE award two years in a row.

Between 1991 and 1996 she recorded three more albums, "Corazones Perversos", "Tangos De Lengue - Varela Canta A Cadícamo", and "Tango En Vivo", which was recorded live on June 1996 at the Coliseo Theatre in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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Between the years 1996 and 1998 her fame increased, with her participation on famous festivals such as "La Mar De Músicas" in Cartagena

Cartagena, Spain

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, the Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

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 festival, and the Grec Festival in Barcelona

Barcelona

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In the years that followed, she has begun the creation of a new album, "Cuando El Río Suena", under the artistic direction of Jaime Roos

Jaime Roos

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, and has participated in the Bajofondo Tango Club alternative "electro-tango" group, where she has a notable performance as lead singer in the songs "Perfume" and "Mi Corazón", among others.

Varela has also acted minor roles in movies such as Al Corazón

Al Corazón

Al Corazón is a 1996 Argentine documentary musical film dancing directed and written by Mario Sábato. The film starred Libertad Lamarque and Alberto Castillo...

, directed by Mario Sábato, and in Marcelo Piñeyro

Marcelo Piñeyro

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's Plata Quemada

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, and is also known for her outspoken left-wing politics, which she has never attempted to hide.

Discography

• Tangos (1991)
• Maquillaje (1993)
• Corazones Perversos (1994)
• Tangos De Lengue - Varela Canta A Cadícamo
  Enrique Cadícamo
  Enrique Domingo Cadícamo was a prolific Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist. From an initial Symbolist bent, he developed a distinctive, lunfardo-rich style from an early age, and by 1925 he had his first piece, Pompas de jabón, sung by Carlos Gardel...
  
  (1995)
• Vuelve El Tango (1996)
• Tango En Vivo (1997)
• Cuando El Río Suena (1999)
• Toda Mi Vida (1999)
• Más Tango (2000)
• Vivo (DVD) (2005)
• Encaje (2006)

External links

• Official website
• Varela at TodoTango