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- Birth nameGerardo Hernán Matos Rodríguez
- Nickname
- Becho
- Gerardo Matos Rodríguez was born on March 28, 1897 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a composer, known for Strictly Ballroom (1992), 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). He died on April 25, 1948 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
- For a short period, during the early 1930s, he was based in Paris.
- He was also a journalist.
- He is best known for the tango "La Cumparsita", composed as a young student in 1917, in the University of Montevideo. He was at first too shy to play the piece himself, and it only became known through the performance of others.
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