As a singer, composer, dancer and poet, Marina Cedro embodies the spirit of tango: drawing on milongas, poetry and dance from her native Buenos Aires.
Tango has always been at the heart of her many diverse artistic projects.
“I didn’t go to tango, tango came to me…it possessed me,” she says.
And from an early age.
Marina Cedro was just six when she was drawn to the sound of someone playing piano in a shop in Buenos Aires .
She went in, sat down, and to everyone’s surprise reproduced the sound she heard. Two years later she gave her first concert, interpreting classic tangos in the renowned Café Tortoni in Buenos Aires.
Many milongas later, she came to France , where she’s continued to explore the music she describes as having “different skins”.
In today’s programme we hear extracts from Cedro’s fourth album Cronicas, due out in the autumn.
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