As a DJ, he began putting together tango playlists and creating danceable music. He and Morrison, who is a professor of dance at the University of Montana, have known each other for six years.

For World Cafe 's 13th episode of Latin Roots, Latin-music expert Ernesto Lechner talks tango. Lechner was born and raised in Buenos Aires, which is widely regarded as the genre's birthplace.

By the 1940s, the tango reaches its peak of popularity, danced and performed in Buenos Aires cabarets, dance salons, social and sports clubs, and restaurants, some holding three shows a day.