Don Xello

Real name Christian Xell

Life 9 April 1968 –

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Place of birth Vienna

Country of birth Austria

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Christian Xell, also known as Don Xello, embraced Tango in 2004 and has been enthralled by it ever since. By 2005, he had already organized his first Milongas in Vienna at the Galeria Ideal, a venue that still exists today and has become the largest regular Milonga in Austria.

He first visited Buenos Aires in 2008, leading to longer stays in the city over time. In 2012, frustrated by the poor music quality at Milongas worldwide, Don Xello began collecting Tango records. Soon after, he was offered his first collection of shellac Tango recordings, which he purchased. In 2013, he founded TangoTunes, a label dedicated to high-quality transfers of Tango shellac records. TangoTunes is now the world's largest provider of dance music. While the label acquired numerous Tango collections, many were from lesser-known dance orchestras, valuable historically but not often played at Milongas. These lesser-known collections didn't gain much attention commercially or from TangoTunes, so in 2021, the establishment of a Tango Argentino Foundation was decided upon and formally completed in 2023.

This foundation will focus on areas not covered by TangoTunes, such as digitizing records from artists like Ignacio Corsini, Carlos Gardel, Roberto Firpo, and many others. Additionally, it supports contemporary Argentine Tango artists with infrastructure and funding.

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