Malena (song)

Malena is a 1941 tango composed by Lucio Demare with lyrics by Homero Manzi. The lyrics depict a female tango singer: "Malena canta el tango como ninguna y en cada verso pone su corazón" leading Tita Merello among other singers to identify strongly with the song.[1][2][3]

References

Beatriz Dujovne - In Strangers’ Arms: The Magic of the Tango 180 0786486791 " Manzi, the poet's son, said the singer Tita Merello once expressed her belief that it was written for her. ....In the second verse of the lyric, Manzi describes her with a sequence of similes that seems like a variation on Renaissance love poetry: Tus ojos son oscuros como el olvido; tus labios apretados como el rencor; ..."
Eva Bueno, Terry Caesar - Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture 1999 -p 283 "Even a tango like “Malena,” for example, concerns Malena as a participant in the male-dominated world of the tango: “Malena baila el tango”—“Malena dances the tango.” 30. "
Adriana J. Bergero - Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930 0822973391 " in the tango "Malena," who refers to the other modernity, a world of "abandoned children.""

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[1] Beatriz Dujovne - In Strangers’ Arms: The Magic of the Tango 180 0786486791 " Manzi, the poet's son, said the singer Tita Merello once expressed her belief that it was written for her. ....In the second verse of the lyric, Manzi describes her with a sequence of similes that seems like a variation on Renaissance love poetry: Tus ojos son oscuros como el olvido; tus labios apretados como el rencor; ..."

[2] Eva Bueno, Terry Caesar - Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture 1999 -p 283 "Even a tango like “Malena,” for example, concerns Malena as a participant in the male-dominated world of the tango: “Malena baila el tango”—“Malena dances the tango.” 30. "

[3] Adriana J. Bergero - Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930 0822973391 " in the tango "Malena," who refers to the other modernity, a world of "abandoned children.""