Considered by many scholars of the classical repertoire the best singer in the history of the tango, was born in Toledo between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

The 2 February 1867, the Moor's Workshop, then converted into the Elysee Hall, hosted a musical evening in which the young Cádiz-born Eloísa d’Herbil participated (1842-1943), who years later, become the first great composer of this repertoire, would be popularly known in Argentina as ‘la Baronesa del Tango’.

Some decades after this performance he would come to the world, in this same city, Ana Luciano Divis (he has. 1900-1999), better known as ‘Tania’, considered by many the best tango singer.

Known in the artistic circles of Buenos Aires as "the Galician of Toledo", came to be at the height of Gardel himself, who was joking - according to the autobiography written by ‘Tania’ herself in 1973, Discepolín and me- with non-Argentine origins (Carlos Gardel was of French origin) of who were the two greatest tango players in history: "With me, From toulouse, and a galician, tango stops ».

Daughter of Carlo Luciano, that according to sources such as the researcher Javier Barreiro was a lieutenant colonel in Toledo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where he led the municipal band - there is no Spanish officer in the files of the General Military Archive who responds to that name-, the young Ana worked as a cupletista in Valencia with the nickname of ‘La Lucianito’.

Later, already married to guitarist Antonio Fernández Rodríguez, he embarked for Buenos Aires and began a successful career as a tango singer that would take off especially after knowing, in 1928, to Enrique Santos Discépolo (1901-1951).

Playwright, poet, filmmaker, actor and composer - he owes some of the best known tangos, as Cambalache (1934) or the most common lyrics of El Choclo (1947)-, Discépolo or Discepolín was one of the most notable artistic personalities of Argentina during the first half of the 20th century. ‘Tania’, already well known after singing at the Follies Bergère in Buenos Aires, began with him a prolific sentimental and work relationship that would last until his death in 1951.

The couple traveled to Spain in 1935, performing in spaces as representative as the Palacio de la Música in Madrid. It was there that the Toledo press discovered her, completely unaware of this "illustrious countrywoman", which the newspaper El Castellano considered "great tango rhapsody".

Although his career was eminently musical and theatrical, ‘Tania’ came to participate in three films in the late thirties. The first was poor Pérez (1937), one of the first works of Luis César Amadori, filmmaker who, after Eduardo Lonardi's military coup, would work for years in Spain, filming movies like where are you going, Alfonso XII? (1958), La violetera (1958) and M. de La Salle (1964), among other. The other two comedies in which the couple participated were Four Hearts (Enrique Santos Discépolo and Carlos Schlieper, 1939) and capricious and millionaire (Santos Discépolo, 1940).

In 1993, almost centennial - about to end that «twentieth century, cambalache / troublesome and feverish ”about which he so often sang-, Anita Luciano received in Madrid the Order of Isabel la Católica from the hands of King Juan Carlos. Apparently, He had time on that last trip to Spain to visit Toledo and sit down to rest on the terrace of the Jacaranda bar, as the store manager recently recalled, Ramon de Pablos, to ABC journalist Mariano Cebrián.

Source: https://www.latribunadetoledo.es/ – 9 from December to 2019