Argentine tango vocalist Jorge Falcón rose to prominence in the final years of the 1970s as an emerging talent alongside the Héctor Varela Orchestra, sustaining a ten-year run of popularity until his death from cancer in 1987 at the age of 37. Originally named Luis Iglesias, he entered the world on October 15, 1949, within Buenos Aires’ Parque Chacabuco district in Argentina and launched his vocal work alongside the tango ensembles led by Jorge de Luca and Gabriel “Chula” Clausi. His standing as a promising newcomer became firmly established once he entered tango legend Héctor Varela’s orchestra in 1976. The singer’s first recorded appearance came on Varela’s 1977 release Azúcar, Pimienta y Sal; its title song, composed by Varela, Ernesto Rossi, and lyricist Abel Aznar and performed as a duet with Fernando Soler, marked his initial success and ranked among his most compelling interpretations. Following that breakthrough, Falcón issued his inaugural solo album, Solo Buenos Aires (1978), for the JR label. During the 1980s he moved to CBS Records and delivered La Noche, el Tango y el Amor (1982), El Amor Desolado (1984), and Para Todos...Con Amor (1986). Among his strongest CBS singles was “El Amor Desolado,” credited to Alberto Cortéz and lyricist José Dicenta Sánchez. Health setbacks began to hinder his performances in 1986 after an earlier car crash, culminating in a collapse onstage in Rosario. He succumbed to cancer on July 2, 1987, in Buenos Aires. A sequence of retrospective collections later documented his concise yet distinctive career, among them 20 Grandes Exitos (1987), Unicos (1992), La Historia de un Idolo, Vol. 1 (1994), Leyendas (1995), Mis 30 Mejores Tangos (1997), Colección Inolvidable (1999), Los Esenciales (2003), and De Colección (2004).
