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Born in Buenos Aires, Laura Camacho began her musical life dancing tango with her grandmother in the emblematic San Telmo neighborhood. She studied at the Conservatorio Manuel de Falla and with several double bass teachers, including tango bassist Horacio Cabarcos. For more than a decade she performed in classical, tango, and Baroque circuits, and taught double bass in youth orchestras in Buenos Aires.
In 2009 she moved to the United States on a university scholarship to continue her studies. While living in Athens, Georgia, she founded the Athens Tango Project. She later moved to Austin, Texas, to pursue a PhD in ethnomusicology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on young Argentine tango communities (as both music and dance), the adaptation of the genre between Argentina and the rest of the Americas including the U.S., and the role of women in these tango communities.
Camacho composes for theater, directs ensembles, has toured internationally, and has collaborated with 2025 Latin Grammy winners Tanghetto, as well as with Béla Fleck, Julián Peralta, Pablo Agri, Horacio Romo, and Emiliano Messiez, among others.