"Each song has it's own emotion, it's mood, sometimes tragic, melancholic, romantic. For me, singing and interpreting music means to open my heart to revive this sensations"

ELENA ZALEZ

 

Performer artist. She is a tango dance teacher. She is a singer. She mixes dance and music with puppets. She plays music for children.

Elena has lived in cities across the globe, and performed with different projects in Europe, Japan, Argentina and Australia.

Elena was Born in Patagonia, Argentina. Fascinated by the mystic of tango music and dance, she moves to Buenos Aires where she studied tango dance at UNA (National University of Arts). In 2008 she moves to Europe where she works as a tango teacher, dance performer and organizes tango events.

After more than a decade of an intense career in the tango dance scene, she took up tango singing in 2014, studying with her two favorite the tango singers Eva Fiori and Noelia Moncada.

Since then she has performed at “Los Laureles”, “El Faro”, some of Argentina’s historical cafes from the Golden Age of Tango. She has also shared the stage with Andreas Tordai (Sweden), composer and guitarist Fabian Nesprías (Argentina), the Berlin Tango Community Orchestra (Germany), pianist Naoko Aoki (Japan), Jessie Lloyd from the “Mission Song Project” (Australia), and the Melbourne Tango Orchestra.

Based in Melbourne since 2016, her main projects have been “TangoMood” with Elian Sellanes, Chris Maunders and Paulo Gutierrez. She also performed for kids under the name of: “PioPioPio” Traditional South American Music for children with a bilingual approach, with Michel Bestrin.

In 2024 a new music project finds it’s place: Zorzál, with Dario Lancman and Sophie Dahm.

CONTACT

Mobile: 0468383622

Email: tango.poets@gmail.com

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/elena.zalez/

FB: Elena.Zalez

Main and Background photo: Mailen Ramirez