Alfredo Le Pera, who for four years would form a society with Carlos Gardel to produce the best songs in the Zorzal racehe was born in San Pablo, Brazil, on June 7, 1900. However, he grew up in Buenos Aires, in the San Cristóbal neighborhood.
From a teenager he leaned towards writing and dramaturgy and his rudimentary piano knowledge allowed him to devote himself to Compose songs without difficulty.
His family wanted him to study medicine and he did it for some years until decided to devote himself to journalismwriting in The silver, The world, Last hour, The action y The telegraph.
Also He stood out as theatrical author With the works The surprise of the year, The modern commandments, Great political circus y Arrabal melodiesamong others.
He was a friend of Alberto Vaccarezza, the author of Sainetes, with whom he was in the coffees of a Corrientes still narrow, in the timba and in the theatrical secretariats.
When he was a girlfriend with Vicenta Rodolico, his partner at the Faculty of Medicine, fell in love with the dancer Aída Martínez and After a series of scandals that included persecution in the middle of a theatrical function On the part of the scoring bride and her mother, Alfredo decided to definitely break the relationship and legalize her link with Aída.
But his beloved seriously ill and decided, at the end of 1927, to take her to Switzerland to see her the best specialists at the time. There they operated her but at six months she died. His death would hear deep into the heart of him pear that he would remember in some of his songs and on the argument of The day you love me.
In 1929 he had traveled to Paris and when he returned to Buenos Aires he began working on the translation and preparation of titles for mute films.
At the end of 1930, for his friendship with Enrique Santos Discépolo, Pera traveled to Chile with Mario Benard’s magazine company that joined Tania. In Santiago, the beautiful tango composed with Dispolín Merced Carrillón.
It was the debut of Le Pera as a tango lyricist. Back to Buenos Aires, He definitely consecrated himself as author of Tango letters.
At the end of 1931 he traveled to Paris again, this time for his office as a films translator and with the commission of buying some films for the Argentine market. Over there It is fascinated with the European cinematographic atmosphere and with the works of Alfred Hitchcock.
Following the steps of an English dancer who had fallen in love, he arrives in London in 1932, where he manages to interview the suspense teacher, and is fascinated by the London theater movement, in particular with the work The ten -minute alibiby Anthony Armstrong, which makes the translation. (1)
There he started working for united artists, translating into Spanish the legends of mute films. In Paris, at the Rue Chantal Gavarni Bar, Edmundo Guibourg would have introduced Gardel and Pera.
“I told Carlos: ‘I’m going to introduce you to a boy who can help you a lot … Something has done …’. When I named Alfredo Pera, he replied: ‘I know him from the cafes of Buenos Aires’.” (2)
The goodness of Carlitos hid that Pera had made a very hard note against him in a Buenos Aires newspaper and They had crossed strong For the subject.
1. Ruben Pesce, Alfredo Lepera, in History of Tango Volume 18, Corregidor, Buenos Aires, 2014, p. 3446.
2. The last bohemian: conversations with Edmundo Guibourg: Mona Moncalvillo interviews. Editorial Celtia. 1983. Page 119.
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