It is not difficult to understand why the Argentine interpreter Soledad is a true icon of the popular music nor why she casts a spell on young and old people alike. It is not casual either that she is called “the hurricane of Arequito”. The f

Ariel Ramírez, the crowning of folklore

Jun 27th, 2017 21m 26s

Among the most popular musicians in the country and abroad, we can mention Ariel Ramírez, the author of emblematic songs such as “Alfonsina and the sea” and conceptual Works like the famous “Creole Mass”, one of the most recorded pieces in the

Raúl Carnota, the innovator

Jun 27th, 2017 17m 21s

Self-taught musician and remarkable guitar player, Raúl Carnota authored jewels of the Argentine folklore or, as he himself, liked to say, our creole music.

Carlos Carabajal

Mar 28th, 2017 19m 43s

In Argentina’s Northwest, about 1000 kilometers from Argentina, there’s the province of Santiago del Estero, a vast plain where Spaniards founded the first city in what would become our country. It was in 1553, in a territory occupied until the

Chalchaleros and Fronterizos

Mar 28th, 2017 25m 33s

The piece of Salta, has always been the seedbed and cradle of one of the richest flows of our popular music: the folklore...Production: Julieta Galván / Technical operator: Esteban Villarroel / The voice: Mirian Turkula

Jaime Torres

Mar 28th, 2017 16m 20s

The charango is a little guitar with a very strong sound, an instrument characteristic of the region we call music of the “high plains”, i.e. the high and plain place in the Andes Mountains. And Jaime Torres is, in fact, from those plains and t

The Chamamé Genre

Mar 28th, 2017 23m 2s

The “Chamamé” is the musical style that characterizes the Arg litoral region. It displays native Guarani roots. In the course of time, the Guarany rhythm was influenced by Jesuits and Spanish roots and above all by the German, which dyed the mu

Eduardo Falú

Mar 27th, 2017 17m 25s

The child of Sirian traders and well-off immigrants, guitar player and composer Eduardo Falú was born in a small village in the pce of Salta, in 1923. His wish to send his children to University had him move more than once...Production: Jul

Mercedes Sosa, the voice

Dec 22nd, 2016 20m 35s

The most famous Argentine singer, Mercedes Sosa, was born in 1935 in a poor family of Tucuman city, in the northern region of our country.Production: Julieta Galván / Technical operator: Esteban Villarroel / The voice: Fernando Farías

El Cuchi Leguizamón

Dec 5th, 2016 16m 37s

Musician, pianist, composer, author and lawyer, el “Cuchi” was born in Salta on Sep 29, 1917. He made an important contribution to folklore music with zambas, chacareras & other compositions of novel melodies. He was a brilliant pianist but abo

Atahualpa Yupanqui

Dec 5th, 2016 18m 27s

Atahualpa Yupanqui (in quechua "the one who comes from far off lands to say sth”), is the pseudonym used by Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburo, who was born in Pergamino on Jan 31, 1908 and passed away in Nîmes, France, on May 23, 1992. "Don Ata"

The New Song Book

Dec 5th, 2016 15m 27s

"The search of a national music with popular content has been one of the dearest objectives of the Argentine people. The artists, since the beginning of their own popular expression have tried to incorporate the diversity of gênres and other ex

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