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Jorge Heilpern was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he completed his studies and practiced Economics. He received a master’s degree, and worked as a public servant and taught at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) .Meanwhile he dedicated to develop skills as a musician singer songwriter and artist.
Since he was 13 years old he showed a special interest in music, and art. At that time he chose to study in the Buenos Aires Municipal Conservatory. However, his music still wouldn’t be the centre of his activities.
In 1980, due to the political circumstances the country was going through (a violent military dictatorship) he had to emigrate, along with many other musicians, intellectuals, and politicians. He chose the United States as destination moving to NYC, attracted by the “technological digital revolution” in music. There, he studied orchestration and composition at Juilliard to become “literate in the new technology, in MIDI digital systems for music”. Then the music became a priority.
Living in New York City, he operated his own music production company and created musical compositions for theatre and dancing, commercials and TV shows –among them, the youth-oriented show Fast Forward and the NBC specials about cocaine consumption in the world of corporations, Cocaine: End of the line, and about young people for whom school had become their home, American Promise, for which he won an Emmy for his music compositions.
After the award, Jorge chose to move over to Woodstock, NY, because of the arrival of his first daughter and his willing of freely composing his music and continuously develop his art silently.
There he joined Mambo Daddy a band with Michael Esposito, Winston Grennan, George Leary, Conga Richie and Emmaretta Marks, but he leaves the band in order to create his own project: Tangoman. Tangoman’s musical influence is Mambo Daddy’s mix of chacarera, mambo, bolero and tango. But in Jorge Heilpern’s compositions, those rhythms melt into jazz, reggae and pop, leading to a collection of romantic, hopeful and cheering up songs that grow us a willing of dancing and joy along with a feeling of nostalgia and introspection.
Several musicians had played with- and in- Tangoman, among them, Garth Hudson (member of The Band and recent winner of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), Winston Grennan, Paul Branin, Jim Finn, Paul Duffy, Steve Rust, Ken McGloin, Artie Dixon, David Calarco, Ernie Colon and Carlos Valdez.
He performed mainly in the United States, where he played in Tinker Street Café, Woodstock..s Mountainview Studio, Trumps, Joyous Lake, Bearsville Theatre, Mid Civic Center, and in the Woodstock Festival ‘94, among others. He also played in Paris, Madrid, and Köln (Germany), besides doing annual concerts in Clásica y Moderna (where was made the live recording of Ilusiones y Desencantos in 2003) and a presentation at the Gran Rex in Buenos Aires. In 2005 he participated in the New York River to River Summer Festival, where he played with Garth Hudson. He release various records After You Remember (1981), Cantopoé (1998), which was nominated between the 8 best south-American albums in the contest “Just plain music”, Mambo Daddy (2000), and Ilusiones y Desencantos (2003). Tangoman Live 2006,, Solo Tango (2008, Melanco Tango (2009).
After playing with his band in Woodstock Festival 1994 he went back to Buenos Aires where he return to his profession as and economist and playing music besides doing only annual concerts in Buenos Aires.
In 2003 he came back to United States working in NY as a senior adviser at a financial institution
Move to Washington DC as the financial representative for Argentina.
In 2008 he move to Miami.
As a self-taught artist never left drawing from the time he did it since his early age.
He has an extensive work and in 2009 he decided to make them public.
As an emerging artist he had been show his work at MOCA, BoCa Raton Museum, Art Palm Beach and Museum of Fort Lauderdale.
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