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El Chino Perico & Silvina Damiani

Footage: Tango Vida. Watch it on its own
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  1. 0:07Ricardo Ponce, El Chino Perico, was one of twelve children from San Luis province. He came to Buenos Aires at four.
  2. 0:15Club Sunderland: a neighbourhood sports club in Buenos Aires whose court becomes a milonga.
  3. 0:22Café Domínguez, by Ángel D'Agostino with words by Julián Centeya.
  4. 0:30He learned in his early teens among young men in Florida, and by the mid-1950s danced to the great orchestras.
  5. 0:38In the 1970s he was part of the 'resistance' milonga in Beccar that kept tango going through the lean years.
Sources
  1. EL CHINO PERICO & SILVINA DAMIANI Tango, Tango Vida (YouTube)