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El Chino Perico & Mylène Pelletier

Footage: Mylene Pelletier (Helping artists). Watch it on its own
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  1. 0:07In the 1970s he was part of the 'resistance' milonga in Beccar that kept tango going through the lean years.
  2. 0:15Club Sunderland: a neighbourhood sports club in Buenos Aires whose court becomes a milonga.
  3. 0:22Gallo ciego, by Agustín Bardi, in Osvaldo Pugliese's version.
  4. 0:30He worked at the Ministry of Economy for about thirty years, and never performed professionally.
  5. 0:38He is held up as a faithful example of Villa Urquiza style: upright posture, careful walking, deep musicality.
Sources
  1. Mylene and El Chino Perico in Sunderland Tango, Mylene Pelletier (Helping artists) (YouTube)