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Graciela Susana Ambrosio (22 January 1953 – 19 November 2024), known as simply Graciela Susana (Japanese: グラシエラ・スサーナ), was an Argentinian tango singer who achieved success in Japan in the 1970s.

Life and career

Graciela Susana was born in Buenos Aires on 22 January 1953. Her father, Ricardo Ernesto Ambrosio, was a musician who sang and played piano in an orchestra, and she grew up immersed in music. When she was a child, she performed as a folk duo with her sister Cristina. In the late 1960s, she began to sing tango as a soloist, accompanying herself on guitar. Among her teachers were such renowned guitarists as Kelo Palacios and Roberto Lara.

In 1971, at the age of 18, she was discovered by Japanese singer Yōichi Sugawara [ja], who together with his manager was in the audience when she performed at the famous tango bar El Viejo Almacén [es]. She then travelled to Japan where she became a successful recording artist for Toshiba-EMI. Her most commercially successful album is Adoro, La reine de Saba released in 1973. It was a long-lasting hit, staying in the Oricon Top 100 for over 220 weeks and selling over 1 million copies.

Susana died on 19 November 2024, at the age of 71.

See also

• List of best-selling albums of the 1970s (Japan)

References

1. ^ "Biography of Graciela Susana by Luis Alposta". Todotango.com.
2. ^ "Toshiba Hops to Latin Beat". Billboard. 7 July 1979. p. 58. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
3. "GRACIELA SUSANA: La novelesca vida de una gran cantante". El Quindiano. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
4. "Fue furor en Japón, estuvo en situación de calle, fue secuestrada y hoy vive en La Casa del Teatro". La Nación (Argentina). 7 March 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
5. Murió Graciela Susana, la cantante que llevó el tango a Japón (in Spanish)

External Links

• Graciela Susana discography at Discogs

• 1953 births
• 2024 deaths
• Singers from Buenos Aires
• Tango singers
• Argentine women singers
• Argentine women guitarists
• 20th-century Argentine singers
• 21st-century Argentine singers
• EMI Music Japan artists