Farewell to a great The famous Cacho Fontana fired.
With the death of Cacho Fontana ends an era for Argentine radio and television marked by the unmistakable imprint of the conductor and conductor. Fontana was 90 years old and died this Tuesday, July 5, and for those things of fate, one day after the death of his ex-wife and mother of his daughters, Liliana Caldini.
Celebrities echoed the news and they fired the beloved driver on social media, also underlining the important career of the creator of numerous successes and who has influenced the careers of many.
One of them was his colleague Beto Casella: “Cacho, the inventor of today’s radio, is gone. QUEP, dear Cacho Fontana,” he said.
For her part, model Luciana Salazar joined in with a message from her Twitter: “QEPD Cacho Fontana. A great man is gone.”
Former Minister of Culture of the Nation, Pablo Avelluto, had words of appreciation for the announcer: “When I was a child there were people who were changing the media. Their voices are the sound of my childhood. Cacho Fontana was one. of them. Rest in peace. “
Uruguayan comedian Pichu Straneo also joined the farewell, posting an emotional memory with Cacho on his Twitter account. “A giant left, a point of reference among many, a pioneer. I was lucky enough to meet him and take a comic step with him. QEPD Cacho Fontana, unique and incomparable”.
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Moved by the news, the reporter Maddalena Ruiz Guiñazu, expressed in statements to TN: “Working with Cacho has been a wonderful experience.”
The reporter recalled what their meeting was like: “I was very sad, we had a great relationship. Working with him was a wonderful adventure. I was a mobile worker for Channel 7 and they came to tell me that my name is Cacho, I don’t I could believe it. We made some very good friends, it was very impressive. He always had excellent initiatives, a command of information “
And he added: “I interviewed him a year and a half ago and I noticed him lucid, with a sense of humor. He loved challenges.”
Another radio man, Oscar González Oro, also joined in the farewell words: “I am still moved. It paralyzes me, memories appear. He was a friend, the person I had lunch with twice a week. He was a human being. with defects and virtues, creator of great successes and a style of making radio “.
“What attracted me to Cacho was his voice, his tone, the way he handled him. He had a sense of humor, which Cacho bought me. What he informed and entertained,” he added as a tribute.
And he added a fact that never ceases to attract attention; the sad coincidence of his death with that of his ex-wife, Liliana Caldini, which took place the day before. “The day Liliana died I immediately thought about her death. If anyone was at Cacho’s side it was Liliana and the question was” who told Cacho that Liliana is dead? “
Journalist Valeria Schapira wrote: “Dying remembered and loved as Cacho Fontana, leaving a legacy of professionalism and respect. Something that very few can”.
Even the presenter Nora Perlé had words of emotion to greet her referent and colleague: “He was a great teacher, he was an example of the phrase. With Antonio Carrizo they were the two masters of radio. Each with his personality, his humor , privileged intelligence What radio has, no other medium can match, the listener is part of it. Cacho made sense of it all, “
And he outlined his feelings about how the death of his ex-wife, Liliana Caldini, which occurred the day before, could have affected the presenter. “When we heard about Liliana, I thought Cacho would finish this news. Don’t have the slightest doubt that it was explosive for him. Liliana was a gorgeous and vital girl,” she assured.
His colleague and another unmistakable radio reference, Héctor Larrea, remembered him like this: “Cacho was not a broadcaster, he was an artist. Besides being a great seducer, that voice was different from all of them. It was harmonic, it had tones, quality, different smells for each situation, his intuition. Cacho changed everything forever. “
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