Benjamín Alfonso Tagle Lara (23 June 1892 – 9 November 1932) was an Argentine lyricist and composer of tangos who achieved popularity in the 1920s.Tagle Lara began writing songs around 1920. In 1923 musicians Carlos Gardel and José Razzano recorded "Cocorocó", composed by Tagle Lara and Enrique Delfino. The following year, the zamba "El boyero" (later renamed "Por el camino"), which he composed in 1922 with music by pianist Carlos Vicente Geroni Flores, premiered in Montevideo's Concurso de Canciones Regionales ("Regional Song Contest"), performed by Ítalo Goyeche and Néstor Feria. The song would later make its way to Spain, where it was popularized by the singers Agustín Irusta, Roberto Fugazot, and Lucio Demare, earning praise from the prominent Sevillian musician Joaquín Turina.

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