Susana Natividad Rinaldi (born 25 December 1935) is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 tango

Tango music

Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...

 singer.

Dubbed "La Tana", she was born Susana Natividad Rinaldi in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 on December 25, 1935. The daughter of a wealthy father and a poor mother, she spent her childhood moving throughout different provinces of Argentina. At 14 she began studying chamber singing at the National Conservatory of Music, and in 1955 she entered the School of Dramatic Art. Two years later, she made her TV debut and in 1959 she went on the stage with famous stars. When she was asked to record a poetry concert in 1966 she offered them a tango album. By the end of that year, she had her first album with music arranged by bandoneon player Roberto Pansera. Her success prompted her to slowly give up acting and launch her career as a singer. After touring around tango bars and milongas, Susana Rinaldi gained fame as a singer at the end of that year. She called the attention of her audience by singing tangos which up to then had only been sung by males, tangos by José María Contursi, Enrique Santos Discépolo

Enrique Santos Discépolo

Enrique Santos Discépolo was an Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos such as Cambalache and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel.Discépolo was born in Buenos Aires...

, Homero Manzi

Homero Manzi

Homero Nicolás Manzioni Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi was an Argentine Tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos....

 and Cátulo Castillo. This gave her a deserved reputation among a new audience made up mostly of young university students. She achieved fame when she incorporated into her repertoire songs by new authors, such as Eladia Blázquez

Eladia Blázquez

Eladia Blázquez was an Argentine tango singer and composer. El corazón al sur is considered her most popular tango.-External links:**...

, Osvaldo Avena, Héctor Negro and Chico Novarro. During the military dictatorship, Rinaldi was forced to leave the country. After a long stay in Paris

Paris

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, she has returned with an innovative idea of a tango-show. Due to this, she was again rejected by traditional tango listeners, although she did become one of the main figures of the renewal of style.
Her tireless defence of human rights and her passionate promotion of a more just and peaceful world have earned her the title of "Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires" An artist with a political conscience, she supports her ideals about music in international concert tours as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 1992.