n a family of sportsmen and painters there had to be a poet and so he appeared.

His early poems were written when he was seventeen or eighteen and some magazines published them in the late years of the nineteenth century.

By 1920, with a handful of them, he made print a volume he entitled Algunos Versos. But it was not released to be sold but to give it to relatives and friends as a gift. Years later he decided to publish a book but, finally, he abandoned this idea.

In 1942 he contributed to the El Pampero journal under the pen name of Juan Potro.
Very fond of folk and country material, he played guitar by ear and decided to study music with the teacher Justo Tomás Morales. On one occasion he showed to his teacher some décimas he had written. The professor, enthusiastic about the piece, asked him a copy to which he later added music and handed it to Carlos Gardel who committed it to disc but on the disc label only the composer’s name was mentioned. Those décimas, recorded in a estilo air were “El lazo”.

He liked the recording very much and, having the record at home, he made all his visitors listen to it while he complained about the trick made by his teacher, reason that made him break up with the latter for good.

Years later, the teacher Morales, in his own handwriting, on a copy of that piece wrote the following statement: «This composition which has lyrics by my student Ramón Solveyra Casares was recorded by the late singer Carlos Gardel».

Solveyra Casares was born in Buenos Aires on May 9, 1878 and there he died on September 4, 1958.