Casimiro Aín

Casimiro Agustín Aín (4 March 1882 – 17 October 1940), nicknamed “El Vasco” (“The Basque”) or “El Lecherito” (“The Little Milkman”), was an Argentinian dancer and promoter of Argentine tango. He is recognized as one of the first performers to spread and establish this Buenos Aires dance in Europe and the United States, as well as for achieving the official acceptance of tango before Pope Pius XI at the Vatican.

Life Casimiro Aín was born on March 4, 1882 in Buenos Aires. He was the first son of Juan Aín (a well-known milkman nicknamed “El Vasco”) and the Genoese Rosa Rataro.

During his childhood, he accompanied his father on milk delivery rounds, which earned him the nickname "El Lecherito" ("The Little Milkman"). From a very young age, he showed an interest in the music of street barrel organs and began dancing corridos, pasodobles, and especially the emerging tango criollo.

Last years Upon his definitive return to Argentina in 1930, Aín continued performing for a few years, this time accompanied by "La Vasca," who was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Monserrat. At the end of the 1930s, he underwent the amputation of a leg due to gangrene, which marked the decline of his career. Casimiro Aín died on October 17, 1940, in Buenos Aires.