he younger brother of Arturo Bernstein, also known as El Alemán, a famous bandoneonist of the 1900’s. Despite of the fact that he had to struggle with the popularity his brother had brought to his paternal name, he did not stay behind because he reached his own, not as instrumentalist but as composer because he wrote some gems in the tango genre like “Don Goyo”, the notable classic of our tango music. “El abrojito” is another one; and also “Una limosna por Dios”, “El indio”, “Aniceto”, “Mar del Plata”, “El carancho”, “El vasquito”, “El rey de los aires”, “En la loma”, “Adorable noviecita”, “Pa' qué llorar”, “Muchacho loco”, “Ojos maulas” and “La casita está triste”. The latter two were recorded by Carlos Gardel and, besides the heartfelt lyrics written by Alfredo Faustino Roldán and José de Grandis, became popular through the immortal voice in thousands of recordings.

About Gardel he said: «I, that knew him fairly well, can say that he never lacked a wisecrack when greeting or talking to a friend. I saw him for the first time at the Armenonville when he sang with José Razzano».

He started his career with his brother and later a large number of orchestras had him in their personnel. But his longest tenure was with Luis Servidio, that is to say, in the aggregation fronted by the Servidio brothers when it was at its highest peak and was the main attraction of the Café Nacional.

Others were the ones led by Eduardo Arolas, Anselmo Aieta, Carlos Vicente Geroni Flores, Juan Pedro Castillo, etc. at venues like the A.B.C.,Armenonville, Germinal, El Parque, L'Abbaye, and many more with agreeable memories in the tango history.

Bernstein was born in San Pedro (province of Buenos Aires) on January 28, 1888 and passed away in Longchamps (province of Buenos Aires) on January 1, 1966.