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Alberto Castillo (performer)
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Alberto Castillo was a prominent Argentine tango singer and actor. He was born Alberto Salvador De Lucca in the Buenos Aires barrio of Mataderos as the son of Italian immigrants Salvador De Lucca and Lucia Di Paola, made his professional debut in the 1930s and began a successful recording career in 1941. Soon afterwards he had a hit with his interpretation of the Alfredo Pelala tune Recuerdo.
Castillo was also a physician by training. This fact famously convinced his fiancee's parents to let her marry Alberto (being "just a tango singer" would not have been enough), and was dramaticised in the Argentine movie "Luna de Avellaneda", when Castillo volunteers to deliver a baby at a carnival fair right after finishing his set.
"Profile - Alberto Castillo". The Tango Times: Summer 2002.
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