Envy, plagiarism and prison: the unpublished story of "susanos"

They are part of the cultural heritage of television. Argentine popular cultural imagination for 30 years but little is known about them. Silent and efficient, "Los susanos" are the right hand of


Susana Giménez
on the screen and first-hand witnesses much of what is happening around the diva but how was born and evolved this heterogeneous group of men and women formerly integrated by people like Guido Süller, Karina K and La Coneja ", among others?

Susans made their debut on the screen at the same time as Giménez on Wednesday, April 1, 1987, when a few seconds after 13 they have appeared dancing on the screen of Argentina Televisora ​​Color in
Hello, Susana! a cycle that would become a clbadic

A large part of this program, the Susans owe their existence to Rafaella Carrá. Ovidio Garcia, representative of the Italian in our country, has developed for years the idea of ​​adapting the cycle
Soon, Rafaella! on our TV. And she found an ideal replacement in Giménez.

So, as Carrá had a dance group that accompanies her in choreography and games, the future diva phones added a dozen male and female dancers, who were christened "Susanos" a few days later later. With a large production, there was also a pianist (whom the conductor would call "the maestruli") and a choir of three singers

Viewers soon adopted susans and it was common to thank the gifts. When they arrive at the studio, there will be mentions and gifts for them. Among these first dancers,
was Rafael Blanco and Karina K,
who won Giménez's affection by imitating Niní Marshall in the cuts, something that amused everyone behind the camera.

The Susan became so involved in the audience this summer that the band set up their own children's game with songs and choreography for the Mar del Plata season and won an Estrella award from Mar. [19659011]When
Hello, Susana! switched to Channel 9, as did the Susanos, although they saw their number decimated but not their importance. Among them was distinguished Alejandra Suárez, "The coneja". With short hair and a constant smile, the dancer accompanies Giménez along almost the entire program with Cristina Victorel, another recognizable face of the time.

"Susana loved" La Coneja "and she gave it a lot of importance.It was a natural process because in the maelstrom of a live daily program many events occur. and the Coneja was almost as clueless as her.In fact, when they appeared "little pearls", there was a lot of La Coneja "
LA NACIÓN a person close to the production of the cycle

With La Coneja and Victorel formed a pair of "a blonde and a brunette" who amused Giménez and it would continue for many years 39 years old, even when they arrived in the afternoon of Telefe. It was there that Marcelo Iripino, a susano who managed to convince the diva of the need for more musicals and choreographies, also began to take center stage.

Over the years, Iripino began to feel more and more limited. and
he would eventually migrate to ShowMatch, where he would participate as a dancer and would not be deprived of expressing his wickedness for the presumed deeds of the diva, though those wounds would heal over time

"The indispensable condition of A susano is to be aware of everything Susana needs the camera, even anticipating her demands but also being flexible when she goes out of the script.It does not do well with those who want to grow up and take a role "It's the secret of Marcelo Bezina's success, the susano in charge of the prints and that Giménez would immortalize with the question" Marcelito are you there? "The dancer and the musician have always understood his place and have never benefited from his good agreement with the driver.

Some Susans had a less glamorous destiny: Claudio Adrián Cámara was part of Telef cycle e but he committed a serious crime and was sentenced to 18 years. years in prison, which is carried out in Magdalena prison. "Susana is a diva, a top, a maxim, but she's also very, very simple, she talks to us, she insults and she's a half-pig because she sticks eraser everywhere," he said. revealed from prison
in an interview granted a few years ago

The crime was also involved with them when two people posed as susanos in 2007 and

These dancers and badistants would also be in the middle of the cold war between Giménez and Tinelli in the late 90s, the driver of Bolívar did not stop making fun of his partner and arrived to have his own susanos :

A forgotten susano was


Guido Süller
who took a small step in the cycle in 1989. According to several interviews, he was fired after attempting to improve the pilot's hairstyle a few seconds before being on the air and to leave him badly arranged in front of the camera. Always careful to create controversy, he also badured that the secret of the success of La Coneja was his condition of "chupamedias" of the diva.

Jealousy was commonplace among susanos and also the demand. In the 90s there was a Susano of Eastern and Eastern Europe, which was renamed without taboos with simpler names to remember for Susana.

The best known is the Ukrainian Valera Varanoski who put "Vladimir" and was three seasons, until he made the mistake of confusing an advertiser at the same time. 39, a commercial segment in front of the camera and was fired. He finished with Antonio Gasalla, who had been fascinated to see him on the screen and hired him. Today, he works aboard a cruise

Alejandro Cupito, who was recommended by Oscar González Oro in 2007, first won the contest Mister Primavera and his is attached to the team. Few remnants of the dozen dancers who in 1987 formed the first Susanos. Last year, there were only two men who attended the star, although some things do not change. "Susana has trouble remembering some names, so one of the susans had to be renamed Matías to make it more comfortable for her," confesses a producer who prefers to remain anonymous.