Cacho de Fierro – Radio Miter

November 27, 2018

The new editorial of Alfredo Leuco for "I give my word".

Everything has its place. I was very happy with Martín Fierro received last night by Rolando Barbano, Marcelo Longobardi, Marcelo Bonelli, Miter Informa Primero and Cristina Pérez. But I confess that the greatest emotion, as has happened to many people, was the presence of Cacho and Pinky.

Both said they were moving because of the depth. You do not know how difficult it is to get away from this environment, said Cacho. I've never been scared on radio and television, Pinky said. Great Silence and respect for those who know.

Seven months ago, we talked about these microphones in Fontana and we were very happy to see that his daughters were very caring for him and that he was sharing his hours with Pinky in a house. ;Excellency.

Anyone who loves radio and earns a living with their trades, we should today raise our glbades and drink for Cacho. And thank this real monument to the media, journalism and speech.

On April 23, 1932, Cacho Fontana was born for the first time. He called Norberto Palese. His father earned 160 pesos as foreman at a Belgrano railway warehouse and his mother was sewing a machine near the window.

The slum of the barracks was his world. He hung on a brush, held it near his mouth and dreamed of telling under the name of Fioravanti. Annabella, his first girlfriend on Vieytes Street … the piberium … the corner, the respect of Don Adolfo Pedernera and the madness of the red band machine. In the evening, the Palese were the best of tastes: listen to Luis Sandrini. Laugh and cry with family.

One day in 1949, Cacho Fontana was born for the second time. He was already a character invented by Norberto Palese who presented for the first time Roberto Padula's orchestra to the show "La Argentina". He announced the first tango of his life and said: "Canaro in Paris …" He earned 10 pesos per dance.

Then came the orchestra Domingo Federico, the first announcement with that unique voice that offered reliability, precision and that said: "The auctioneer Loturco, in Guernica." Radio El Pueblo, the utopia of Radio El Mundo. The famous meeting with his beloved Antonio Carrizo and anecdote a thousand times tell:

-Pibe, are you Fontana ?, he asked the skinny of life and singing … It's ok kid, huh … but leave the bolero.

It was a period of change, consisting of informing chau engolamientos and syrupy speakers of that time. Cacho quickly understood the company and launched all the cards. This revolutionized the radio. He did it again.

For years, the "Fontana Show" has been the most watched show. He invented cell phones, a special and dizzying way to make headlines. The glory of Radio Rivadavia, the most sold broadcaster, the most transparent image, the most prolix. Greased hair. Cacho was the symbol of harmony that would one day explode in his hands. It was impeccable. Cacho had everything in his place.

One night, he made the best of presents to his parents. A luxury and yapa department brought Luis Sandrini to dinner at his home. So, together, they remember those summer nights in Barracas, with the aroma of the spiral and malvones.

This president of the nation has been recognized by the Senate of the nation. He received the Honorable Mention Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. It is the maximum distinction granted by the camera that represents all the Argentine provinces.

Great among the great, Immortal Cacho. All advertisers owe him something. They are the salieri of Cacho. Because he broke the mold, he reinvented this noble profession that begins with a clear and modulated voice and ends like a lump in the throat.

There was a damn time where it was missing this security Odol in neurons. He collapsed, fell apart. Life has screwed up in this ring where he used to announce the big boxers by the hand of Tito Lectoure, his lifelong friend, until death separates them. .

It was not a minute Odol in the air, nor the moon telling the sun how beautiful your teeth are. The country has stopped to see it as before. Or rather, as in the races, he would stop in turns to see how the pineapple would stay.

Piece of sentences, the wisdom of the night and the counter. Cacho tanguero, dressed in a tuxedo and a bun between blond champagne and Chantecler blondes. Smile gardeliana, who otherwise will have perfect teeth as toothpaste propaganda.

Cacho's life is in many ways affected by that of Diego Maradona. Not only because he was by far the number one, in his own way, bouncing furiously, tilting the right inflection, reading a warning from the center of the field like no other. In addition, Cacho and Diego are alike.

They also had their idol parables. His love and contempt on the part of the people. Cacho and Diego have not only shared the glory. They also shared Devoto. Because both have been lost in the mazes accursed.

In their own flesh, they understood that when you fall into these depths until you can not get up, you are doomed to crawl. And it humbles. It embarrbades girls, it locks you into your wife's hatred. It takes you away from your job, what you want most and what you do best.

Once, they asked him if he had hit Marcela Tiraboschi, a 22-year-old girl who made a living showing her roundness in the Sofovich program. She said:

– I do not usually do these things with women. I do another kind of stupid things, like falling in love, for example.

Cacho Fontana was left alone and even had to eat thanks to the solidarity of friends. Just him who, at night, could close a bowling alley and hand out seductive bubbles and bataclanas to everyone.

His mother became blind, maybe not to see him in the collapse. Because then the night came for Cacho. But heavy night, cats on all fours and one-way trips. What can I do if I love women with a past, he says, loading himself?

He had already gone through the life of the great Beida Bidart. But there was a time when people started making firewood from Cacho fallen to the ground. The scandal, the facial paralysis, the steroids that inflate him to heal him, the idea of ​​suicide that repeats itself until … One day in June 1999, Cacho Fontana was born for the third and last time.

He was resurrected after the stroke of unhappiness with which he had been punished. This day of Martín Fierro, he touched the sky with his hands. He was helped by his third and last ex-wife, Liliana Caldini, mother of his two daughters. The one who had the family destiny with his genes.

Life gave him revenge and Cacho won the prize of the trajectory. He came trembling with excitement with live cameras. He looked straight to the 40 ranking points and undressed his miseries. It was the day of forgiveness. He apologized for so many clubs.

He swore by his daughters, by Antonella and Ludmila, and by his granddaughters. He managed to say that he had sworn before God to turn this path into a future and he broke and broke us all. He covered his face and Cacho Fontana cried unconsciously. And he asked for another opportunity. And everyone gave it to him.

Next to me was another high-level speaker, heir and successor to this lineage, Fernando Bravo, who, of course, was crying. We all got up. See him running in the straight line and arrive at the finish line as he does now with his radio and television projects.

We do not want a Cacho Fontana. We want him whole, standing, so that he comes to give lectures with the hundreds of sounds with which he reads the news or the tanda. So, again, with his Gardelian smile, this minute Fontana goes back into the air, so that again transmit and ask for safety as only he knows how to do it and it's his trademark

An 86 year old Cacho who continues to dream. He was born three times. So in life as on the radio. Cacho de Fierro.

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