e wrote the largest portion of his pieces in collaboration with Juan Villalba, and the team Villalba & Braga became very popular with sainetes (one-act farces) about the horse-racing milieu which were fashionable in the ’20s.

Among his most acclaimed numbers which were premiered we have Latigazos, Cume la barca de Bachicha, El clásico del amor, El bajo está de fiesta, ¡Me juego la vida!, Yo te protejo, che, Ensalada rusa, Media noche en la ribera, La plata del gringo, Que siga el casamiento, Viejo rincón, Palermo (Competidores y Montas), El gringo de los mosaicos, Locoloco y su familia, Matrimonio sin hijos, Locos de la radio, Redoblonero, La voluntad del finao, written with Villalba; Lo que cuenta el arrabal, with Eduardo Trongé.

Among the few songs he wrote for his plays, the lasting one is “Palermo”, tango he co-wrote with Villalba and Enrique Delfino for El bajo está de fiesta and which was known worldwide through Carlos Gardel’s vocals.

For the same sainete he co-wrote with Villalba and music by Carlos Vicente Geroni Flores the tango “La traición” which Ignacio Corsini recorded later.

Braga was born in Buenos Aires on November 11, 1899 and there he died on January 24, 1945.