Alberto Cortez - Intimo 1 '2001

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Alberto Cortez (born José Alberto García Gallo, March 11, 1940) is an
Argentine singer and songwriter.

Cortez was born in Rancul, La Pampa Province, Argentina. He began elementary
school at the Alberto Williams conservatory at the age of six. He began
composing songs at twelve, including Un cigarrillo, la lluvia y tú. Later he
entered Manuel Ignacio Molina de San Rafael Junior High School in Mendoza
province. There he continued his studies of music at the Chopin of San Rafael
conservatory.

At seventeen, Cortez became the singer of the Arizona orchestra, where he was
known as Chiquito García. At eighteen, he went to study in the Social
Sciences and Law School of Buenos Aires and sang in bars to help himself with
his studies. Later Cortez began to sing in the orchestra of Mario Cardi and was
contracted to sing in the San Francisco jazz orchestra. He traveled all over the
country with them and began to use his pseudonym Alberto Cortez while singing
with the orchestra of Armando Pointier. Cortez dropped out of school and
dedicated himself fully to music.

Aged twenty, Cortez travelled to Antwerp, Belgium where he recorded his first
album. His record Sucu Sucu reached number one. Cortez met Renee Govaerts and
later married her. After a difficult start he consolidated himself as one of the
more renowned composer-singers of Latin America with hits like Mi árbol y yo,
Mariana, Como el primer día, A partir de mañana and Callejero.

In 1996 Alberto Cortez suffered a very serious carotid obstruction, which put
him on the brink of death. Doctors say he was clinically dead twice.

But he was saved, a circumstance that the musician attributed to providence.
Although it is not known what negotiations he entered into with the afterlife,
it is known that in the earthly realm, always more fleeting, he later made the
decision to also revive his best-known songs, thus granting them a plus of
permanence in the collective imagination. .

He called in Ricardo Miralles, the notable musician and arranger for much of
Joan Manuel Serrats career, and with his usual artistic energy he devoted
himself to the re-recording of his greatest hits. There were 4 Discs in Total.


Tracks:

01. En un rincón del Alma
02. Castillos en el aire
03. El Amor desolado
04. Eran tres
05. Miguitas de ternura
06. Parábola de uno mismo
07. Debe ser el chacolí
08. Nuestra casa
09. La vieja de la plaza
10. Duda
11. La Ternura
12. Erik, Peter y Jan
13. Yo quiero ser bombero
14. ¿Adónde diablos?
15. Mariana
16. Te llegara una Rosa

Personnel:

Alberto Cortez: Voz
Ricardo Miralles: Piano

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