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  "slug": "astor-piazzolla",
  "name": "Ástor Piazzolla",
  "description": "Ástor Piazzolla appears 3 times in our Tango list, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/astor-piazzolla/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 3,
  "years": {
    "first": 1959,
    "last": 1974
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 2,
    "list": "Tango"
  },
  "appearsOn": [
    {
      "kind": "genre",
      "slug": "tango",
      "name": "Tango",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tango/",
      "entries": 3
    }
  ],
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    {
      "trackKey": "astor-piazzolla--adios-nonino",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/astor-piazzolla--adios-nonino/",
      "title": "Adiós Nonino",
      "year": 1959,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Written the day after his father died, in a hotel room in New York. Piazzolla was hated in Buenos Aires for what he did to tango, and this is the piece that eventually ended the argument.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/%C3%81stor%20Piazzolla%20Adi%C3%B3s%20Nonino",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WWursLMsEHU",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 2,
      "on": {
        "kind": "genre",
        "slug": "tango",
        "name": "Tango",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tango/"
      },
      "artist": "Ástor Piazzolla"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "astor-piazzolla--libertango",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/astor-piazzolla--libertango/",
      "title": "Libertango",
      "year": 1974,
      "label": "Carosello",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A riff rather than a song, and the most covered thing he wrote. Tango nuevo at its most exportable, and it lost him the last of the traditionalists.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/%C3%81stor%20Piazzolla%20Libertango",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNtQpMMSEM",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 5,
      "on": {
        "kind": "genre",
        "slug": "tango",
        "name": "Tango",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tango/"
      },
      "artist": "Ástor Piazzolla"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "astor-piazzolla--balada-para-un-loco",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/astor-piazzolla--balada-para-un-loco/",
      "title": "Balada para un Loco",
      "year": 1969,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Half spoken, half sung, and booed at the festival where it premiered before becoming a standard. Horacio Ferrer's lyric is deranged in the best way.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/%C3%81stor%20Piazzolla%20Balada%20para%20un%20Loco",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8t8VaVgSDfc",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 8,
      "on": {
        "kind": "genre",
        "slug": "tango",
        "name": "Tango",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tango/"
      },
      "artist": "Ástor Piazzolla"
    }
  ],
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}