El Caballero Gaucho

Luis Ángel Ramírez Saldarriaga AKA El Caballero Gaucho was born in 1917 in Pereira, a city located in the middle of the Colombian Andes. He is, alongside Oscar Agudelo, Olimpo Cárdenas and Tito Cortés, one of the most representative interpreters of early Colombian tango and milonga. He is also considered a pioneer of the despecho genre. One of his biggest influences was the Argentinean singer Ignacio Corsini, AKA El Caballero Cantor. During his 60-year-long career he has composed and recorded over 2,000 tracks, making him the most prolific singer in Colombia's history. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.