Modern Tango World N° 3 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Page 40

Alba Solis
Tango Diva

Alba Solis had everything needed for a diva of the
tango: humor, audacity and drama. From a young age,
she was a singer who transcended fads and aesthetics
of the moment. Alba Solis died February 3, 2016 at
age 88, after multiple surgeries.
Solis had long had retired from the stage, but had left

a legacy of tango songs. She sang in the fifties and
sixties in all theaters of Buenos Aires. As a young
lady, she fell in love to the press. She was voice
of Mariano Mores, Juan D’Arienzo, Francisco Canaro, Hector Varela, and Chupita Stamponi. She
performed on the catwalk of the Maipo Theater and
in the film Astral.
I’m more singer actress. But notice that one of
the most beautiful films I did was Hex, with
Narciso Ibáñez Menta. However, he was a coproduction that was not much. The pass is always meat, where I am Isabel Sarli was singing.
it’s the scariest thing on earth
She spent thirteen years touring the world Tango
Argentino. Alba Solis has given everything on stage,
and no one could escape her charm, her brilliance
and the dark storm of her voice.
But before being born as an artist, Alba Solis was
a girl of precocious talent. his According to her own
biography, she was born in the year 1900,to Dona
Herminia Trapanese Lamberti and Oreste Juan
Guillermo Lamberti. Born Angela Herminia Lamberti, she participated in a radio contest: long before she found her tango voice. She came in second,
but her presence was so strong that she became a
member of the station’s regular cast. As a child with
a precocious talent, she became one of the children
in the Gang Marylin.
She debuted in Buenos Aires Magazine in comedy
theater, and soon became a star of the genre. She
appeared in Blum, the great theatrical event of
Enrique Santos Discepolo. Homero Manzi composed, with Pichuco Troilo, the tango Discepolín
theme It was first performed in the cabaret El Colonial, by Alba Solís.

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