{"id":342,"date":"2017-03-05T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musician.io\/?p=342"},"modified":"2020-06-13T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T09:08:31","slug":"astor-piazzolla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/astor-piazzolla\/","title":{"rendered":"Astor Piazzolla – The Most Important Musician You Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Astor Piazzolla was born in Argentina in 1921. He is often credited as the creator of modern Tango, through his Nuevo<\/em> (meaning new) tango style. Piazzolla brought Tango out of stagnation and popularised the genre through fusion with other musical styles. The Argentinian composer was a world-class musician, inventor, renegade, and arguably the person that did more for Tango\u2019s worldwide popularity than anyone, except maybe Carlos Gardel<\/a>. <\/i>Astor Piazzolla's music lives on in the multitude of covers, interpretations, and homages to his music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n