e was a student, back in 1924, when he wrote his first song: the French version of “Oh París”, a fox-trot by José Bohr. Later he published around twenty-five pieces that were musicalized as tangos, marches, fox-trots, etc.

Until 1947 he directed the artistic agency A.D.R.A. which he also owned. It was founded after Pablo Osvaldo Valle’s suggestion in 1937 to free Radio El Mundo, a radio station he directed, from any commitment.

He collaborated in different journals and magazines with articles that were not connected with popular art but with university and law subjects. Nor the books he published had any relationship with that subject, among them was Nuestra representación exterior.

He came to know the great Carlos Gardel around 1924 on Corrientes Street, close to Suipacha, introduced by Emilio Iribarne, an amateur pianist with a very good taste. The latter was quite a gentleman and, because he was a wealthy man, had taken up music as a hobby and was as well friend of the singer’s, of other artists and of the man of our article with whom he published several numbers in collaboration.

«When I was introduced to Gardel we talked about miscellaneous things but not about my songs.», said he for this compilation. However, Carlos recorded his “Adelante”, march, and “Maldita visión”, tango, with music by the above Iribarne and Manlio Francia, respectively.

José César Barros was born in Buenos Aires on August 8, 1899 and there he died on May 30, 1974.