i need to find a famous person from argentina for spanish class... please help!!!?

Question

im doing a spanish project for school on Argentina, and we need to include one famous person (who like ppl would know) and say why they are famous... and they need to be from Argentina...

any help would be appriceated =) hehe


xox <3

if possible, no sports please. just like movie starts or singers and ppl like that =)

xox <3

Answer 1

well, Eva Peron was indeed a very important woman..

another ideas..

Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings. 28 days, Hidalgo..)

Che Guevara..

good luck!

Answer 2

Maradona= Famous Soccer Player....

Answer 3

Domingo Sarmiento

Answer 4

Jorge Luis Borges was a most famous Argentinian poet, writer, and thinker.

Hope this "prompt" can help you with your project!

Answer 5

I agree with Eva Peron. Madonna actually stared in a movie about her which might help you to understand her better if you could watch the movie.

Answer 6

Look into Eva Peron! She's most known from the song 'Don't Cry For Me, Argentina', (from the opera 'Evita). It's a beautiful song; it was recorded in the 1970's by Olivia Newton-John, and later by Madonna.

María Eva Duarte de Perón (May 7, 1919 – July 26, 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva".

I got this bit from Wikipedia:

Born out of wedlock in rural Argentina in 1919, at age 15 Eva Duarte made her way to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires where she pursued a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. Eva met Colonel Juan Perón in 1944 at a charity event in San Juan, Argentina. The two married in 1945. Eva Perón became involved in Argentine politics in 1946 shortly after Juan Perón's first election as President of Argentina. Over the course of the next six years, Eva Perón became powerful within the Pro-Peronist trade unions. Eventually, she founded the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, and the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

In 1951, Eva Perón expressed a desire to be allowed to run for the office of Vice-President of Argentina. In this bid she received great support from the Peronist political base, low-income Argentines referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones." However, opposition from the nation's military and elite, as well as her declining health, ultimately prevented Eva Perón's candidacy. In 1952, shortly before her death, Eva Perón was given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation".

There's a lot more about Eva that Wikipedia hasn't even mentioned! She's an interesting character!

As for singers and/or performers ...

I'm also including a couple of links to performances on YouTube by a couple of Argentine performers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z3O1BbQ_c8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m4YxcIb7xg

I'm also including some info on Maximiliano "Gytano" Paradiso:

Maximiliano "Gytano" Paradiso was born in Buenos Aires Argentina. He grew up surrounded by tango under the influence by his grandfather "el ruso", a very known milonguero. He studied it with some of its most important exponent such as Nito y Elba, Omar vega, osvaldo y Miguel Angel Zotto, Pablo Veron, Junior Cervila, Los Dinzels, Mauricio Castro, Carlos Gavito, and others, and assisted some of them in their teachings. He has performed in some of the most important tango events around the world including the New York Tango Festival, the National Tango day in Buenos Aires, as well as at the Hollywood Bowl with Los Angeles Philarmonic Orchestra, and the Tango Pasion choreoghapher Hector Zaraspe, at the Bass Hall of Dallas and the Costa Mesa Performing Arts Center. He performed at the off broadway Thalia Spanish Theater for three years. In the musical Tangomania for the 2004 the show got an award winner season.

Gytano studied oriental philosophy and other type of dance movements that can take the student in a playful and non-competitive atmosphere to a better and deeper understanding of the tango. He is currently living and teaching in Japan and Asia in general.

His teaching also draws from the Tango Discovery system, a pedagogical approach to teaching tango, developed by Mauricio Castro, that has now become quite popular due to the publication of two Tango Discovery books and several CD-ROMs (see official Tango Discovery website).

Meet the Maestro: Gytano will be dancing at the Fri 13/feb milonga at Abrazos "San Telmo" Milonga. Come and discover his spontaneous style of dance.

You can also find this on a YouTube page. www.tangosingapore.com/go/blog.php?item=5


Good luck on your project ... and God bless!!!

Answer 7

Since they've got my first two ideas, here's a list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Argentines

Answer 8

i dont know if you know here but Yamila Diaz (she was a model for the makeup Covergirl) and other modeling is argentinian.

here

http://www.celebritysun.com/YamilaDiaz.html

Answer 9

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