CAMBATANGO was born in
There, in a typical ‘hood’ corner, guitar players and friends Lucas Sterin Pensel and Ariel López Saldívar met and started shaping the idea of forming a tango band.
That first meeting was followed by several more sometimes in bars, sometimes in milongas. Ultimately, they agreed: they would establish a tango quartet. They would need two more musicians; thus they started the search for the most talented ones.
That’s when Carolina Cajal gets into the picture. An outstanding bass player, she was part of the Tango Escuela Emilio Balcarce Orchestra and immediately accepted the invitation to join the new tango band. Japanese bandoneon player Koji Hirata had such a love for tango that he had traveled to
While they had various gigs and performed at different venues, they decided to add a singer. The lyrics of tango songs like ‘Mocosita’ or ‘Fangal’ were too good to just play them without a voice. Ruth de Vicenzo, christened by the media as “the vinyl voice,” remains true to the style of the 1930’s and 40’s when the singer was not the leader whom the band had to follow but another one of its instruments.
With the two guitars, the bass, the bandoneon and the voice, CambaTango was born and ready to impress audiences young and old with its singular tango sound, part orchestra, part ‘criollo’ or autochthonal.
CambaTango quartet has been the guest band at the Centro de Convenciones de Parque Norte when the musicians performed their select repertoire for the officials of the city’s Ministry of Education. They also performed at the Parakultural de San Telmo and they are a staple at
CambaTango even made it to the silver screen with the appearance of the band in the documentary film “El tango de mi vida” or “The tango of my life, ” directed by Hernán Belón.