Chango Spasiuk in concert in London in 2004.

Horacio "Chango" Spasiuk (born on September 23, 1968 in Apóstoles, Misiones) is an Argentine chamamé musician and accordion player. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Misiones is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region. ... Chamamé is a folk music genre from the Argentine Mesopotamia (Littoral). Jesuit Reductions in the area impulsed a cultural growth in the area that lasted until the Jesuits were expelled by the Spanish Crown in the late 18th century. ... A 24-bass piano accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ...

Of Ukrainian grandparents, El Chango had a strong Polka music influence from his early days; Eastern European musical influences were also already present in the chamamé music of the region. He had his first accordion at age 12, which he played at parties, weddings and other events with his father and uncle. Street musicians in Prague playing a polka Polka is a type of dance and genre of dance music. ... The definition of continental subregions in use by the United Nations. ...

A musical-talent TV show that travelled around small towns opened the door for Spasiuk to perform at provincial festivals. When he finished high school, he went to Posadas, capital of Misiones, to study anthropology, but soon after dropped out. Nevertheless, there he was exposed to other musical genres, and met pianist Norberto Ramos, who convinced him to go to Buenos Aires to study with him. Spasiuk then played in small places in Buenos Aires as well as in some festivals around the country, and even received an invitation to participate of the Eurolatina festival in the Netherlands. This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Argentina is subdivided in 23 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular - provincia) and 1 federal district (capital federal). ... Buenos Aires (English: Fair Winds; originally Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María de los Buenos Aires, City of the Holy Trinity and Port of Saint Mary of the Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, and one of...

In 1989 El Chango was invited to play in Cosquín, perhaps the most important folkloric music festival in Argentina, where he received the "Consecration" prize. After Cosquín he moved to Buenos Aires, where he recorded his first album, eponymously named Chango Spasiuk. Cosquín is a small city in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, located about 52 km from Córdoba City and 783 km from Buenos Aires. ...

Spasiuk gained some popularity not only among folk and world music audiences but, given his modern style, also with rock and pop fans. He worked as a guest musician with bands like Divididos and Cienfuegos, but continued recording his own material. Favourable reviews of the "La Ponzoña" album reached Canada, and El Chango was invited to play at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Divididos (Divided) is a rock band from Argentina and an important band of what is called Argentine rock. ... A stage at the jazz festival The Montreal International Jazz Festival (also called the Jazz Fest, in French Festival International de Jazz de Montréal) is one of the biggest jazz festivals in the world. ...

In 2000 he returned to his roots recording Polcas de mi tierra live at parties and weddings in the small towns of Misiones with his accordion. Since then he has being touring around the world with the Chango Spasiuk Orchestra, and has edited an international recompilation of his work in 2003.

Spasiuk has been championed in Europe by world music journalists, for many of whom chamamé is a previously unknown form of music. BBC radio presenter Charlie Gillett is a prominent fan in the United Kingdom and has included El Chango's tracks on his compilations and playlists [1]. World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of Earth; the term continent here referring to a cultural and political distinction, rather than a physiographic one, thus leading to various perspectives about Europes precise borders. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world [1]. More specifically, the term is currently used to classify the many genres of non-western music which were previously described as folk music or ethnic music. Succinctly, it can be described as local music from out there [2... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest public broadcasting corporation in the world. ... Charlie Gillett born Feb 20, 1942 is a British radio presenter and writer, and in recent years has become one of the countrys most influential proponents of world music. Gillett began in journalism in 1968 with a weekly column in the Record Mirror. ...

Awards

• 2006 named Best Folklore Artist, by the Carlos Gardel awards, for his work Tarefero de mis Pagos
• 2005 winner of the Newcomer BBC World Music Awards
• 2001 nominated for Best Folklore Artist, by the Carlos Gardel awards, for his work "Chamamé crudo".
• 2000 Chamamé crudo named Best Folklore Record of the Year by Rolling Stone-Argentina.
• 2000 named Best Folklore Artist, by the Carlos Gardel awards, for his work Polcas de mi tierra.
• 1999 Polcas de mi tierra named Folklore Record of the Year, by Clarín.
• 1997 La Ponzoña awarded as Best Instrumental Record - Asociación de Cronistas del Espectáculo (ACE).
• 1993 Bailemos y... nominated for Best Instrumental Record - Asociación de Cronistas del Espectáculo (ACE).
• 1989 "Premio Consagración" - Festival Nacional de Folklore, Cosquín, Córdoba.

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Discography

• Chango Spasiuk (1989)
• Contrastes (1990)
• Bailemos y... (1992)
• La ponzoña (1996)
• Polcas de mi tierra (1999)
• Chamamé crudo (2001)
• The Charm of chamamé (2003 recompilation, Germany)
• Tarefero de mis Pagos (2004)

External links

• Official site
• Profile at the BBC
• Biography (Spanish)
• Interview La Nación magazine (Spanish)
• The Charm of Chamamé