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Ada Matus is a singer-actress-composer born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1954.

From a musical tradition, she sang with her father, Oscar, for 7 years and recorded 3 LP's with Chants du Monde.

She went into theatre with her composition for the play "Promethée enchainée" (Prometheus Chained) under N. Parikos's direction (Greece, 1980), then for Shakespeare's "Tempest" directed by P. Andreu (Théâtre du fil, Paris-Avignon,'90). From 1977 she worked on tango with Juan C. Càceres, singing in the GOTAN Troop: a double Polydor album (Paris).

Matus mounted three tango shows in The Buenos Aires Sidewalks (Trottoirs de B.A., Paris), then she was invited to Jairo's show at the Bataclan, Paris, under J. Guidoni's direction. From 1993, she presented 4 creations on French and Argentine stages. She thanks Emetrio Cerro for having revealed her iconoclatic side.

She was one of a heavy metal duo with Jean-Jacques Chesneau who composed and performed 40 songs in the nineties.

Plays:

La Bobonne

La Pindongue, acted by C. Bernhardt

Les tilleules (The Female Plane Trees, performed by Matus and Muche)

Tour of Argentina, 1996-97:

A poetic musical, Tango Cerro(Matus

Solana la Vieja, actress: Ada Matus

The Guaranis, lyrical comedy in Spanish acted by R. Lopez, R; Di and A. Rizzo)

in 2012, Ada published her autobiography NEgra Guacha. She has taught music and theatre in Amsterdam and the Paris Basin. She has 5 children of whom one adopted daughter from Croatia. She lives in the Paris area.