Alfredo Marcucci

Alfredo Marcucci’s life is a fascinating happy ending fairy-tale, rich in events along 70 years and 4 countries. Born in 1929 in Ensenada ( La Plata, Argentina), from Italian parents, at the age of 7, he learns the first rudiments of playing bandoneòn, lead by his uncle Carlos, famous bandoneòn player and orchestra conductor. When 17, his artistic trajectory lead him to be part of big orchestras of the “Golden Era” directed by Raùl Kaplùn, Julio De Caro, Eduardo Bianco, Juan Canaro, Jorge Caldara, Enrique Mario Francini. Marcucci made audio-recordings, played in concerts on the radio, night-clubs and concert-halls in Buenos Aires and during tours in America and Japan.
In 1956 , he is part of the most successful orchestra of the time, the Carlo Di Sarli’s one. He had been playing there for three years until the formation dissolved. It’s the end of the 50’s , Tango comes through a crisis and Alfredo, without a job, starts a new adventure, in Orient, as bass-player in jazz-orchestras: Lebanon,Iran, Siria, Egypt, unusual places for a tango-musician. In Istanbul he meets “Los Paraguayos” and that meeting marks a changement in his career: he is going to play his bandoneòn with this famous latin-american folk-band for 15 years. In 1977 he decides to give up that vagabond life, he moves to Belgium. He gets married and finds a job as a worker in a plastic components industry. Five years later, a few musician of argentin origin ask him to play with them. He accepts, opens a school of music and comes back playing with artists and groups. He teaches tango at the Academy of Ixelles, where the musicians of his “ Sexteto Veritango” were formed, from then on he plays with several musical bands, as a guest of the most important concert-halls and European tango festivals. In 2004, he is invited in Turin, to form and direct the first only tango argentino orchestras in Italy, which was named Alfredo Marcucci’s typical orchestra in his honour. Alfredo’s story goes on up nowadays with the same skill, enthusiasm and tenacity of that child that, unaware, started facing the world of tango in the 30’s.