Agustín Magaldi

Agustín Magaldi

Agustín Magaldi (Casilda December 1, 1898 - September 8, 1938) was a tango and milonga singer. His nickname was "The sentimental voice of Buenos Aires". Magaldi's popularity was second to tango singer Carlos Gardel.

Agustín Magaldi is portrayed in the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Broadway musical "Evita". In the musical Magaldi is depicted as bringing Eva to Buenos Aires and is therefore referred to as "the first man to be of use to Eva Duarte".

There is some disagreement, however, about the role Magaldi played in Eva's life. For example, in the biography "Evita: The Real Life of Eva Perón" biographers Marysa Navarro and Nicholas Fraser write that there are no records of Magaldi performing in Eva's hometown of Junín in the year that Eva is said to have met Magaldi.

"Most accounts of Evita's life say that she fell in love with the spotlight image of Magaldi or that she decided to seduce him and use him; but that, in either event, she was introduced to him, asked him to take her to Buenos Aires, and when he wavered, forced her way into his train compartment and rode with him to the city, thus leaving her family and becoming a married man's mistress. Yet there is no record of the tango singer's having come to Junín that year. Magaldi, a mild man who was devoted to his mother, used to bring his wife on tour, and it is hard to understand what he would have seen in small, skinny Eva María. If he did help her leave Junín, it is likely that his assistance was of the most innocuous kind. Evita's sister insists that doña Juana, prodded by don Pepe, accompanied Evita to the city. According to her account, mother and daughter kept visiting the radio stations until they found a programme for which a young girl was needed." [Navarro, Marysa. Fraser, Nicholas. "Evita: The Real Life of Eva Perón". Page 11.]

External links

* [http://www.todotango.com/english/creadores/amagaldi.html Agustín Magaldi] , by Pablo Taboada and Ricardo García Blaya.
* [http://www.casilda.com/htmltonuke.php?file=loscasildenses/nosenor.htm Agustín Magaldi biography] and controversy over his birthplace (Spanish language)

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