In 2001, Bettinotti-Fernández started their musical professional career. This tango duo evolved from the rock band Señores Monos, so their first shows in public bars, theatres, and neighbourhood clubs and cultural centres, were attended not only by tango followers, but also by their original rock fans.
In 2002 they toured within Argentina, working hard in order to learn more about the genre they were performing. They deepened their sensitiveness towards this music and tried to differentiate themselves from other tango groups.
In 2003, they were invited by a Spanish producer to perform in the “Argentina Nueva Mente Festival” (Argentina’s New Mind Festival) in Barcelon, Spain, where their original music and, specially, their lyrics so depictful of Buenos Aires’s local colour were acclaimed by the Spanish audience. This trip to the Festival, which was sponsored by the Argentine Foreign Affairs Ministry, continued with a very successful tour all over the South of Spain.
Back in Argentina, their first work, Los porteños del Gardel (Gardel’s porteños) was realesed in CD in 2004. The twelve tangos in it were well received by the specialized critics, who welcomed their original and daring lyrics in the stagnated tango circuit. The lyrics built up stories of unfortunate men and women, taking up the traditional tango topics of infidelity, tragic love, unemployement. However, they also explored new and absolutely uncommon themes for the genre.
In 2005, Tangolpeados (Tango struck), their second CD, appeared.
It included twelve new tangos, which took up aspects of the lives of some of the characters included in their first work.
This time they went further by recreating the stories and miseries of these many different people and by placing them in the same imaginary neighbourhood called Villa del Tango (Tango Vila).
In 2006, their third CD, Rezongando rezongar (Complaining and complaints), including fourteen new tangos was released.
Bettinotti-Fernández tangos picture the stories of people living in Buenos Aires, and through their lives and miseries one can figure out and understand the changes that these people’s lives and the city of Buenos Aires have undergone the past two decades, mainly as a result of neoliberal economic policies.
Their originality in the lyrics is streghthened by the fact that they create a whole universe of characters, whose sagas can be followed in depth all along various tangos.
Bettinotti-Fernández tango duo has Alejandro Bettinotti on voice, piano and special effects, and Hernán Fernández on the bass.
They are always accompanied by guest musicians on guitar, bandoneon (large accordeon), keyboards, trumpet, drums and percussion, who contribute to recreate the atmosphere of their tango stories, stylized by their new and always daring vision of the genre.
In the year 2008 edited its fourth disk entitled "The man dies of Man". It is a record that the strengthens within the gender and allows them to submission in different Circuits, even in all the interior of the country, highlighting the Festival "Tango in Salta", in the Theater Provincial of the city of Salta, among others. "Kill the Television" is his fifth recording work, which is published in 2009, a disk that continues with such a search that leads to incorporate new mergers.
During the 2009 as presented in the Theater ND Ateneo. In the 2010 conducted its sixth musical production: "Fumigándonos", attracting new curiosities within its recognized irreverent style. A work that present during the 2010 with new training, in “Notorius” and in" La Trastienda Club ”. Now prepare their next production. |