[Tango-L] Omar Vega

[Verena Faigle]

I didn't join this list for many years. Omar Vega's death made me  
return to it.
To end all rumors before they begin: There were no drugs involved! He  
always hated drugs. At the moment nobody can tell what he died of.  
Even the doctors don't know. The only thing they know for sure is  
that he couldn breath any more.

There are many stories about him. I can asure you, he could read. Not  
as well as people in the western world can, that' right. As a kid he  
never had the time to go to school. He had to survive. But he was no  
orphan. He entered school when he was an adult. And the friend who  
made him go to school, took him out to a milonga. Thats how he got in  
touch with tango. And tango became his life. Pepito Avellaneda was  
his most important teacher.
For me, and I assume for many others too, Omar was el rey del traspie.
Whoever danced with him, will probably never forget it.
He once told me, that when he stars to dance he' enters a bubble. All  
music around him and nothing there except music and his partner.
He's buried at Chacarita. And there will be a Milonga for him this  
wednesday in Buenos Aires.

He was a great dancer.
Verena