e contended in the encounters where ad lib lines were sung on the spur of the moment with the most renowned payadores of the golden period: Gabino Ezeiza, José Betinotti, Generoso D'Amato, Ambrosio Río, Galíndez, Vieytes, Navas.

Gardel was in touch with him as with all the others of his time and he even kept a certain friendship with him which made that the former recorded in 1912 the latter’s little waltz “Es en vano”. As on the records the author’s name was not mentioned he ordered to take them out of the record stores but he was unfortunate because they were sold all the same due to the fact that at that time there were neither author societies nor copyright laws that would prevent it.

With a prologue by Florencio Iriarte, in 1909 he published some booklets with his poems which were released as Chispas Azules.

He kept a friendship with men like José Ingenieros and José González Castillo.

Curlando was born in Bahía Blanca on August 28, 1878 and died in Buenos Aires on May 13, 1917.