e always liked to write words and lyrics for tangos that he never published, because he did not frequent literary or musical circles. He was only sympathetic with that activity forced by the performances of his brother Juan León Bengoa, a popular playwright.

He came to know Carlos Gardel in Maroñas in social gatherings at stud stables on horse racing days. He liked Gardel's personality very much because the latter was a man extremely pleasant. In París Gardel recorded “Vos andá que te conviene”, a tango with music by Víctor Lomuto.

By 1929 Juan León Bengoa, a theater playwright, was in Paris along with Roberto Martínez Cuitiño, Vicente’s brother, and Matos Rodríguez. When the latter asked the former some tango lyrics on which to write music, as he had never written lyrics he handed him one by his brother Perucho he had with him. Matos, instead of working with it, gave it to Lomuto who had a long career in Europe.

When in 1932 his brother Juan León, who was living in Madrid, received a copy of “Vos andá que te conviene” sent by Alfredo Le Pera, whom he had known for a long time when they worked in the Crítica and Última Hora newspapers. Le Pera told him that Matos Rodríguez was returning to the Río de la Plata area and had asked him to send a copy of the tango in case that Gardel would record it, and that also he had sent a copy to the author in Montevideo who, by the way, had never been in Paris.

The brothers Juan León and Juan Pedro Bengoa were cousins of Manuel Aróztegui’s (Malungo), the well-known author of the immortal tangos “El apache argentino”, “El Cachafaz” and “Champán tango”.

Perucho Bengoa was born in Montevideo on April 10, 1903 and there he also died on October 18, 1940.