Although he had been born in Argentina, Astor Piazzolla was brought up in New York. He arrived in Buenos Aires at the age of seventeen, in 1938, and played his bandoneón with a number of orchestras, before getting a job with Anibal Troilo, for whom he also did arrangements. When vocalist Fiorentino left Troilo in 1944, he took Piazzolla with him. By 1946 Piazzolla had his own orchestra.
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