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The Hermanos Abalos have performed Argentinean folkloric music for over sixty years.
Machingo, Adolfo, Roberto, Vitillo y Machaco were already singing about two years before
their professional debut in 1939 with their zamba 'Nostalgias Santiagueñas' and from there they launched a career of music, dances and
'Zapateos' (a tap-dance in the gaucho style), that took them from the country to theaters in the
capital city of Buenos Aires and from there all over the world. The Hermanos Abalos' repertoire
consists of their own original music and music that they have compiled from almost forgotten
country sources. It includes Andean and quichua (the language of the Incas) music and those
Argentinean folkloric rhythms with a pure "criollo musical flavor" that have been handed down
for generations. The five brothers studied folkloric music at its natural sources and were one
of the first singing groups that introduced the country music of the gauchos and chinitas
(the gaucho's woman) in polite society through movies like 'La Guerra Gaucha', theater shows,
recordings, radio and TV. Their dances such as the Pala-Pala, El Malambo, El Cuando, El Gato,
zambas, chacareras, vidalas, bailecitos and bahualas; their instruments; piano, guitar, bombo
(an Indian drum), caja (a smaller drum of the bombo family), charango, (an Indian mandolin-like
instrument with the armored back of an armadillo as the body ), quenas and pincuyos (Indian flutes
with a pentaphonic scale) and their beautiful harmonies have caused them to receive many
commendations, awards and proclamations as some of the best ambassadors of the Argentinean
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