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In Buenos Aires, Virginia Luque is one of but a small handful of artists who can lay claim to the title of "living legend." The 81-year-old entertainer is remembered both for her role as a glamorous leading lady of the silver screen over half a century ago and as one of Argentina's most popular tango divas. Today, she remains as active as at any time in her long career. To get on the stage she may require the assistance of a muscular dancer young enough to be her grandson, but she is still capable of wowing audiences singing the classic tangos she helped popularize decades ago.
Composer Leopoldo Federico, at age 83, stays busy writing new tangos and acting as president of the Argentine Association of Interpreters, an organization dedicated to protecting intellectual property rights. With a German made accordion-like bandoneon tango's signature instrument, always close at hand, the man considered by many to be his land's greatest living bandoneonista puts the finishing touches on a new arrangement in the association's Buenos Aires office, surrounded by posters from concerts he has performed at home and abroad.
Atilio Stampone, yet another fabled tango musician, hasn't let age slow him down either. At 84, the composer and pianist still spends every working day overseeing the affairs of the Argentine Society of...
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