not working well, until someone from the team tried to do a test with a record of Maestro Pugliese. Everything began to improve and Charly gave the show. Hence the myth of good luck that the invocation of the musician brought. In 2000, five years after Pugliese's death, the musician Alberto Muñoz wrote a prayer to pray to the tango patron saint. Other artists, including León Gieco and Javier Calamaro, acknowledged that they invoked the musician born on December 2, 1905, to ward off any inconvenience. "We always mention Pugliese", Gieco sings in "Los Salieris de Charly", a song dated 1992. Sebastián Bianchini, from the Tree group, composed an ironic song dedicated to Pugliese ("Suerte") "It seems that mixing his musical activity with the political would mean making it dirty, but he never loses sight of this ethical-aesthetic relationship that he has known how to project and shape in his interlocutors", said María Mercedes Liska In the image of "Saint Pugliese" the artist and the man committed to society are synthesized, without his name being at the mercy of the negative connotations of politics. Filmography He participated as an actor in the films: Mis cinco hijos (1946). Tango y tango (1984). Coexistencia (1993). Muchas gracias maestro (1993), unfinished documentary. Awards In 1986, during the tenure of Mayor Julio César Saguier, the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires declared him "Ciudadano Ilustre". In 1988 he was awarded with the title of Commander of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture of France. In 1992, on 11 November he was awarded with the Alejo Carpentier medal, the most important cultural distinction by the Council of State of Cuba. References External links Osvaldo Pugliese Biography (El Recodo Tango) Osvaldo Pugliese Discography (El Recodo Tango) TodoTango.com – Biography Todo TangoTango.com – Discography Unofficial site Unofficial site 1905 births 1995 deaths Musicians from Buenos Aires Argentine people of Italian descent Argentine composers Argentine conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Argentine tango musicians Argentine pianists Male pianists Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Orquesta Osvaldo Pugliese Burials at La Chacarita Cemetery 20th-century pianists 20th-century composers