Rosanna Falasca
died on February 20, 1983, while recovering from a delicate operation due to cervical cancer.
She was 29 years old.
Her appearance was undoubtedly revitalizing for the tango scene
, which found in this excellent interpreter an essential freshness for the genre that was not going through its best times.
On November 7, 1982, the artist had a colposcopy in which they discovered the cancer that was promptly removed in an operation from which she could not recover.
Rosanna Falasca, one of the young voices that renewed the tango scene in the '70s.
Singer at ten years old
Rosanna Inés Falasca, "Chany", was born on April 27, 1953, in Humboldt, Santa Fe, the daughter of Ado Falasca, Italian, tailor and singer, and Filomena Theler.
She was the third of five children in a household with a lot of music.
Her father Ado defined her as an intelligent, enterprising, vital girl and loved by all.
“At the age of ten I realized the future that Chany would have.
A few days later I took her to a rehearsal to see how she would come out with a microphone and twenty days after that test she was already singing with the orchestra at Estación Clucellas, in the province of Santa Fe, "said her father. .
At the age of thirteen, he made his debut on Channel 13 in Santa Fe
and later appeared in front of the cameras again, but on Channel 13, in Paraná, in Entre Ríos.
They began to talk about that teenager with a beautiful voice and singular grace and Channel 10 of Córdoba called her to appear and from there she jumped to the Río Ceballos Festival with a performance that caught the attention of several producers.
A year later, in January 1969, with her father's orchestra, where her brothers Ado and Daniel were also present, Chany performed at Club Quilmes, in Rafaela, where producer Julio Martino listened to her and suggested that her father take her. to Buenos Aires to do a test.
Up to this moment, she Falasca
interpreted a repertoire of popular songs and some classics in Italian
, the family's second language.
Rosanna Falasca died on February 20, 1983, aged 29.
In March 1969 she was already in Buenos Aires accompanied by a whole entourage, made up of her father, two brothers and her son-in-law.
On the 9th of that month,
she debuted at the age of fifteen at the Cabo 710 café concert, in San Telmo
, where she did a one-week cycle.
“Around the time we arrived in Buenos Aires I went to sing at an Italian party and between the canzonetas I interspersed two tangos that were very popular;
I think that was where my desire to sing them was born”, the artist recalled some time later.
Furor like tango
The enthusiasm that Chany generates is indisputable
and he returns in August to perform three times a week at Cabo 710, while on weekends he performs in Santa Fe with his father's orchestra who, on one of those visits to Buenos Aires, decides to raise the bet and write it down in the television contest
Nuevas Voces
, organized by the program
Grandes Valores del Tango
, on Channel 9, directed by Juan Carlos Thorry.
Falasca admitted some time later that at that time he only knew two tangos, one of them
Madreselva
, with which he won that first round of the
Nuevas Voces
contest .
"The first one surprised was me because I signed up with the idea of becoming known, not to win," said the artist.
The concrete thing is that her voice,
her freshness and that natural grace caused an impact on the audience
and on the directors of the program who decided to remove her from the contest to present her directly as one of the figures of the program with a four-year contract.
On September 1, 1969, she made her debut at the age of 16 in that legendary tango program
.
Shortly after, in a note on Radio Continental, he clarifies that the music he likes the most is tango.
“Above all the tango, a love-themed song since I feel that she can sing it naturally”, he affirms.
Success in the '70s
The decade of the '70s shows Falasca in a vertical ascent and stands as one of the most important tango artists;
performances, tours, records and even movies show the fascination that she provokes in audiences
.
With her talent, in a short time, she built a solid artist career.
She is a true professional who works hard.
Precisely, he released his first album at the age of 17,
Todo es amor
, in 1970, and his career took a strong momentum;
In addition to his television performances, he does shows in different provinces and sings in Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile.
Rosanna Falasca's first album cover.
With his second album,
Under my skin
, he extends his influence to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Venezuela.
She performs in the United States where she is tempted to settle in New York
, but the country and her family are too drawn to her to be absent.
Simultaneously, with his performances and recordings, he filmed in 1971 the film
¡Arriba juventud!
, directed by Leo Fleider, with music by Lucio Demare, Sandro, Oscar Anderle and Eddie Pequenino, who also acts in the film.
In 1973, he acted in
We were always companions
, directed by Fernando Siro, with Hugo Del Carril, Donald, Irma Roy, Vicente Rubino and Jorge Barreiro, among others.
After her successful album
Rosanna Falasca
(1974), she signed for the EMI-Odeón label and released, in 1976,
El ángel de Rosanna Falasca
together with the Raúl Garello orchestra.
That same year she films
I need you so much
, with Elio Roca, Elizabeth Killian, Rodolfo Ranni, Nelly Panizza and Jorge Barreiro, among others.
Cover of one of the most famous albums by Rosanna Falasca.
Along with Rubén Juárez and María Graña, he joined La Cruzada Joven del Tango
in 1978
, which resulted in a failed attempt to reinsert tango in the youth.
Around that time he released
La canción de Buenos Aires
.
His latest records
She performed in
La Botica del Tango , by Eduardo Bergara Leumann and in 1982
Rosanna Falasca
came out
, a compilation with recordings from her time on the Diapasón label and later the records
Los tangos de mi ciudad y mi gente
and
En el recuerdo,
both in 1983.
Among his most successful performances are
Sur, Vida mía, Los pájaros perdidos, Facing the sea, His eyes were closed
and
La canción de Buenos Aires
, among others.
“I belong to the song of Buenos Aires by inheritance.
Not only because I was born in this land but because in my home there was tango and good.
There are many lyrics that no matter how many times I sing them, they never stop moving me.
Singing is living, it is being moved and giving what one has”, she recounted in one of her interviews, the artist who left tango without the freshness of her voice.
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