- In 1996 she was honored as "Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires" ("Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires").
- Singer.
- She was successful as a tango singer, performing on numerous radio shows and performed canción criolla.
- Nelly Omar was an Argentine actress and singer during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema.
- She was blacklisted after the ouster of Juan Perón for having sung his anthem, Soy La Descamisada and did not work again until the 1970s.
- She sang with the ensemble Cenizas del fogón under the direction of José Luis Suilas.
- In 1924, Omar began singing tango professionally. Ignacio Corsini gave her her big break into singing when he heard her and hired her for his radio shows.
- From the age of 13, she dreamed of becoming a pilot and went to flight school. It was there that she met Eva Duarte, who also had aspirations of becoming an aviator.
- In 1955, she traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay and appeared in a stage production and then moved to Venezuela for a year, before returning to Argentina. She retired from singing upon her return until her comeback in 1972.
- Her father died while she was quite young and the family moved to Buenos Aires, for better work prospects. Nelly began working in a textile factory at age 12.
- From her comeback in 1972, she remained an active performer until her death.
- In 1951 she was signed by RCA Victor, and recorded a 78 rpm album with Domingo Farafiotti's orchestra.
- In 1946, Omar recorded her first album, accompanied by Francisco Canaro's orchestra, on the Odeón label.
- She made only three films prior to 1955, including Canto de amor (1940), directed by Julio Irigoyen, which also starred the singer Carlos Viván. It is believed that all copies of the film were destroyed; however, the Argentine film archives has photographs taken during filming.
- Homero Manzi wrote at least three tangos for Omar: Solamente ella, Ninguna and Sur.
- In 1972, she staged a singing comeback accompanied by guitarist José Canet, who convinced her to come out of retirement. They did a series of concerts and she began releasing records, appearing regularly on stage.
- She also performed in the canción criolla genre, which had been all but forgotten.
- Between 1932 and 1933, Radio Stentor broadcast duets of Omar and her sister.
- In 1945, Omar sang an anthem, a milonga, Soy La Descamisada, which was created for the political campaign of Juan Perón. She wholeheartedly supported Perón and when he was ousted in 1955, she was blacklisted from the entertainment industry for 17 years.
- In 1942, she filmed Melodías de América with Eduardo Morera. Though she is not listed in the cast roster,[5] she is documented in a cast photo of the film.
- She had a clear voice with firm phrasing and reached the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Her film career began in 1940.
- When she was hired by Radio Belgrano she worked with some of the most famous tango poets, Enrique Cadícamo and Homero Manzi, as well as some of the most famous singers then working, Libertad Lamarque and Agustín Magaldi.
- Trademark tangos, which remain associated with her are Amar y callar, Del tiempo de la morocha, Manoblanca, Nobleza de arrabal and Tu vuelta Sur.
- She also wrote two books.
- After the death of Dutch actor and singer Johannes Heesters (1903-2011), she became the world's longest-lived active singer.
- She would not make another film for 57 years, but in 2008, she worked on a documentary about tango entitled Café de los maestros under the direction of Miguel Kohan.
- In 1951, she dubbed the singing voice of Mecha Ortiz in the film Mi vida por la tuya.
- In 1935, Nelly Omar married Antonio Molina. She was married to him for eight years, but separated after two months. In the words of Nelly Omar herself, «it was unfortunate... but the love for my mother-in-law, a second mother to me, prevented me separating... And I got stuck because it didn't work out: neither a good husband nor anything. It was a being all fantasy. He was what they call a bum today. Nelly Omar never remarried.
- In 2012 Teresa Saporiti, Nelly's great-niece, started work on the documentary Nelly Omar Cantora Nacional (Nelly Omar National Singer). Nelly appears in the movie relaxed, with good memory and plans for future projects. The film was completed in 2014, but music licensing issues delayed distribution until 2015.
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