My Life in Argentina and Beyond

Friday, December 22, 2006: Malena is the name of a very famous tango. It is from the 1940s, the Golden Age of Argentine city music. Malena is a woman who sings the tango like no other singer. She´s been around, has probably drunk more than she would care to admitor is good for her. But she has one or two virtues: She sings from the heart and her male admirers will not desert her. My mother was a very popular woman and her suitors called her Malena, though she was never known to hit the bottle. Today would have been her birthday.