- Lidia Borda
Lidia Borda (born 1966) is an Argentinian tango singer. Lidia Borda whom the “Rolling Stone Magazine” described as “the best
tango singer of the present” is regarded as the best female voice in the last decades, and she has been widely acclaimed. Lidia has been inspired by the pioneer interpreters of tango but at the same time she is a modern and original interpreter with a classic and unconventional repertoire that rescues beautiful pages of the genre, inexplicably forgotten.Born in
Buenos Aires , Lidia Borda studied Fine Art, Music and Theatre. Though she had been singing since her adolescence, it was in 1995 that she decided to dedicate herself entirely to singing tango, (those times with her brother -tango guitar player- [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Borda Luis Borda] who actually lives in Germany) of which she has become one of the most important modern interpreters as a “rare bird” that cannot be pigeonholed with the standards in vogue after the 60s, located in a place near the great female tango singers of previous timesBorda has toured internationally in America and
Europe and played at many of the main festivals around the world, including "Grec",Spain ; "Festival de Otoño",Portugal ; "Citè de la musique", "Chaillot",France ; and " The Bergen Festival",Norway . In 2002, she representedArgentina singing in representation of LatinAmerica at the opening ceremony of theNew Library of Alexandria in Egypt. In 2005 she was awarded the Konex prize “Merit Diploma” in the [http://www.fundacionkonex.org/premios/curriculum.asp?ID=2669 category Female Tango Singer] .Discography
* [http://www.tangodata.gov.ar/ingles/e_cd_tal_vez_sera_su_voz.htm "Tal vez será su voz"]
* "Entre sueños"
* "Será una noche" (with "La Segunda")
* "Patio de tango" (with Brián Chambouleyron - Esteban Morgado)
* "Hecho"External links
* [http://www.myspace.com/lidiaborda Lidia Borda at myspace]
* [http://www.todotango.com/english/creadores/lborda.asp Lidia Borda at Todo Tango]
* [http://www.lidiaborda.com.ar/ Lidia Borda Website]
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