Francisco Canaro

Francisco Canaro

Birth : 1888-11-26, San José de Mayo, Uruguay

Death : 1964-12-14

History

Francisco Canaro, artistic name of Francisco Canarozzo (b. November 26, 1888 in San José, Uruguay - d. December 14, 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), was an Uruguayan tango composer, violinist, orchesta director and producer, nationalized Argentine in 1940. He is widely considered one of the most important musicians in the history of Tango.

Profile

Francisco Canaro

Movies

The Dependent
Music
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.
La cumparsita
La cumparsita
Music
He nacido en Buenos Aires
Original Music Composer
Nubes de humo
La voz de mi ciudad
With music in the soul
Music
An orchestra director had a son as a result of an affair in his youth and hides the fact from his wife. But the young man succeeds as a musician and the truth soon comes to light.
With music in the soul
An orchestra director had a son as a result of an affair in his youth and hides the fact from his wife. But the young man succeeds as a musician and the truth soon comes to light.
Corrientes, calle de ensueños
Story about a humble musician who triumphs overcoming his failures and a young woman arrives in Buenos Aires from the interior of the country in search of triumph but finds death.
La historia del tango
Music
The director of a tango set is in love with the singer but she marries another man who eventually abandons her. In their old age, their children will fulfill their dreams.
La historia del tango
Producer
The director of a tango set is in love with the singer but she marries another man who eventually abandons her. In their old age, their children will fulfill their dreams.
La historia del tango
Él mismo
The director of a tango set is in love with the singer but she marries another man who eventually abandons her. In their old age, their children will fulfill their dreams.
La tía de Carlos
A young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems.
El diablo andaba en los choclos
Music
Country boy moves to Buenos Aires, falls upward into a prestigious career. Meanwhile two idle-class playboys are running practical jokes on him that interfere with his personal life.
El diablo andaba en los choclos
Producer
Country boy moves to Buenos Aires, falls upward into a prestigious career. Meanwhile two idle-class playboys are running practical jokes on him that interfere with his personal life.
Un hombre bueno
Music
A hotel waiter, a femme fatale and a failure.
Peluquería de señoras
Original Music Composer
A neighborhood hairdresser suddenly becomes a boxing champion and abandons his girlfriend to get engaged to a star.
La canción de los barrios
Music
A young man starts working as a laborer in his father's shipyards and discovers a series of injustices.
Explosivo 008
Music
Espionage, intrigue, and passion surround the revolutionary invention of a secret weapon. A film that echoes with the world war, by German exiled filmmaker James Bauer.
Turbión
Music
Two gangs of drug traffickers try to control the monopoly of drugs in the city, while the police commissioner tries to kill them with the help of a snitch, "the puppet".
Turbión
Producer
Two gangs of drug traffickers try to control the monopoly of drugs in the city, while the police commissioner tries to kill them with the help of a snitch, "the puppet".
Dos amigos y un amor
Music
Two young men from the radio environment dispute for the love of a girl.
Dos amigos y un amor
Producer
Two young men from the radio environment dispute for the love of a girl.
Dos amigos y un amor
Two young men from the radio environment dispute for the love of a girl.
Madreselva
Original Music Composer
A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
Ya tiene comisario el pueblo
Original Music Composer
Ya tiene comisario el pueblo
Producer
Puerto Nuevo
Original Music Composer
With the help of a rich young woman, a singer who lives in the precarious housing area that existed in Puerto Nuevo comes to fame.
Así cantaba Carlos Gardel
Producer
A film that brings together ten of the fifteen shorts that Carlos Gardel filmed in 1930 under the direction of Eduardo Morera, in the film studios of the pioneer Federico Valle.
Así cantaba Carlos Gardel
A film that brings together ten of the fifteen shorts that Carlos Gardel filmed in 1930 under the direction of Eduardo Morera, in the film studios of the pioneer Federico Valle.
Ídolos de Buenos Aires
Music
Different love stories that take place in a radio station.
Rosas de otoño
Carlos Gardel performing Rosas de Otoño, vals composed by Guillermo Barbieri and written by José Rial.
Viejo smoking
One of Carlos Gardel's singing short films.
Gaucho Nobility
Original Music Composer
La Pampa, Argentina. Don Genaro Gran hires gaucho Juan to capture horses and tame them. In his quest, Juan rescues a girl in trouble whose beauty unleashes Don Genaro's worst impulses.