Roberto Achával

Roberto Achával
Background information
Birth name	Oscar Aníbal Crudeli
Born	November 11, 1930(1930-11-11)
Origin	Argentina
Died	June 27, 1996(1996-06-27) (aged 65)
Occupations	Tango violinist
Instruments	Violin

Oscar Aníbal Crudeli (November 11, 1930 – June 27, 1996), better known as Roberto Achával, was an Argentinian tango violinist. He became popular and recognized in Argentina following his appearance on the Argentine television show Grandes Valores del Tango. He also was a member of Aníbal Troilo's orchestra.

Biography

Achával was born to parents Alejandro and Josefa Scalesi in Ingeniero White, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires province. Achával enjoyed singing from an early age, and sang in a church choir during his childhood. However, encouraged by his father, he took up the violin at age five, under the tutelage of his uncle, Alibeo Crudeli. He married Juana Dodero, also known as La Negra, later in life. He had two children with Dodero, Mirta and Leonel. Her was a singer, musician, violin and bandoneon player. At the age of eight, Achával studied theory, music theory and violin with his uncle Aliveo Crudelli. Still shorts, played his instrument in churches and weddings organist accompanying Schubert's Serenade or the Wedding March. In Ingeniero White, joined the orchestra of Anibal Troncoso, and now that Bahia Blanca directed by Luis Bonnat, who taught him to play accordion, refined with Antonio Rios. Alternating violin and singing, he debuted as a vocalist in the orchestra from Bahía Blanca. And was in 1967 when he enrolled in the event of the Festival of the skirt, which took second place among the vocal performers. Two years later came to Buenos Aires, participating in the contest Grandes Valores del Tango program, given the conditions, was separated from the competition by offering Channel 9 a contract for three years. He appeared later in El Bulín de la calle Ayacucho, sharing the bill with the orchestra of Anibal Troilo teacher. From 1971 to 1973, was contained in Malena al Sur, passing in the final year Old warehouse: there could estimate the most demanding, with its moody baritone voice, his unimpeachable sobriety and care expressive repertoire of tangos, preferably , themes of the forty-accompanied by the orchestra of Charlie Garcia, and their very frequent interventions in the presentations of Troilo who in 1975, required him to his last solo show presented at the Odeon Theatre. The following year, this event, and initialed this difficult distinction, with a tour of seventy cities of Brazil, covering the full season from March to December, on a poster shared with Jorge Sobral, and White Voices Sexteto Mayor. In 1977 he was a central figure in the boite Mimo's. He sang, too, in the Municipal Radio recitals, programs of Channel 7, and as guest artist with the orchestra of Osvaldo Piro, with which his performances recorded for the album. His interpretation of the tango "They call you Malevo" Anibal Troilo and Homero Exposito was the musical theme of the novel Malevo to deliver Channel 9 with great success between 1972 and 1974 written by Abel Santa Cruz and starring Gabriela Rodolfo Beban and Gilli.

External links

• Roberto Achával at Find a Grave