question: A Mexican recording artist, dancer, songwriter, and actor, best known for portraying who in an Argentine telenovela filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and developed by Disney Channel
answer: León Vargas
context: Title: John Joseph Jolly Kyle
  Passage: John Joseph Jolly Kyle (1838-1922) was a pioneering Argentine chemist.  Born and educated in Scotland, he emigrated to Argentina in 1862, and on the outbreak of the Paraguayan War served as a pharmacist in the Argentine Army medical corps.  He became an Argentine citizen in 1873.  At the time Kyle was active specialisation was not an option in Latin American chemistry and it was necessary for a chemist to be a sort of polymath or jack-of-all-trades.  Kyle was appointed professor of chemistry at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires in 1871, and chief chemist to the Casa de Moneda de la República Argentina (the Argentine Mint) in 1881.  He was appointed professor of organic chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires (1889); Chemist to the Inspectorate-General of Sanitary Works (1890); professor of industrial chemistry at the Colegio Nacional (1892); and professor of inorganic chemistry at Buenos Aires University (1896).  He was director of the first chemistry doctoral thesis in Argentina (1901).
  Title: Edward Banfield (railroad engineer)
  Passage: Edward Banfield (9 February 1837 – 6 July 1872) was an English railroad engineer who drove the first locomotive ("La Porteña") through Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1857 as part of the Buenos Aires Western Railway.  He was the first General Manager of the British-owned Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway between 1865 and 1872, founded in Argentina by Edward Lund in 1862.  Banfield died in 1872, and the town of Banfield in Buenos Aires Province, founded in 1873, was named after him.  The professional Argentine football club Club Atlético Banfield also carries his name.
  Title: Violetta (telenovela)
  Passage: Violetta is an Argentine telenovela filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and developed by Disney Channel Latin America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and production company Pol-ka, debuted in its country of origin, Latin America and Italy on May 14, 2012.
  Title: Jorge Blanco (musician)
  Passage: Jorge Blanco Güereña (born December 19, 1991) is a Mexican recording artist, dancer, songwriter, and actor, best known for portraying León Vargas on the Disney Channel television series "Violetta".
  Title: Raúl Sanguineti
  Passage: Raúl Carlos Sanguineti (Paraná, 2 February 1933 – Buenos Aires, 6 August 2000) was an Argentine chess Grandmaster.  He won the Argentine Chess Championship seven times, in 1956, 1957, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1973 and 1974.  Raúl Sanguineti played for Argentina in seven Chess Olympiads.  He won two individual gold medals at Moscow 1956 and Varna 1962, and two team bronze medals at Munich 1958 and Varna 1962.  In total, he represented his country in seven Olympiads with an aggregate of over 70 per cent (46 -7 =42).  He played in the World Chess Championship Interzonals at Portorož 1958 and Biel 1976.  Important tournament victories included São Paulo 1957, Bariloche 1960, Buenos Aires (Club Argentino) 1963, Punte del Este 1964, Buenos Aires Open 1968, Fortaleza Zonal 1975, Mar del Plata 1976, Buenos Aires 1977, and Santos Lugares 1977.  During his competitive career, which ran from 1954 to 1977, he very rarely finished in the bottom half of the tournament table.  In 1980 he won the Konex Award as one of the 5 best chess players of the decade in his country.
  Title: Vera W. de Spinadel
  Passage: Vera Martha Winitzky de Spinadel (August 22, 1929 – January 26, 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine mathematician.  She was the first woman to gain a PhD in mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1958.  Between 2010 and 2017, she was full Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires.  In 1995, she was named Director of the Centre of Mathematics and Design.  In April 2005 she inaugurated the Laboratory of Mathematics & Design, University Campus in Buenos Aires.  From 1998 to her death she was the President of the International Mathematics and Design Association, which organizes international congresses every 3 years and publishes a Journal of Mathematics & Design.  She was the author of more than 10 books and published more than 100 research papers.
  Title: Buenos Aires Football Club (1886)
  Passage: The Buenos Aires Football Club (frequently abbreviated as "BAFC") was an Argentine rugby union club founded in Buenos Aires.  Established in 1886 it was predecessor of current Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club.  Buenos Aires FC was also a founding member of the Unión Argentina de Rugby and one of the most successful rugby clubs in Argentina, winning eight Torneo de la URBA championships between 1900 and 1915.
  Title: Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg
  Passage: Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (27 July 1852 in Buenos Aires – 4 November 1937) was an Argentine natural historian and novelist, one of the leading figures in Argentine biology.  Together with Florentino Ameghino he undertook the inventory of Argentine flora and fauna, and explored all the ecoregions in the country, summarizing for the first time the biodiversity of its territory.  The son of botanical aficionado and grandson of the Baron Holmberg, Holmburg accompanied Argentine "Libertador" Manuel Belgrano on his campaigns and introduced the cultivation of the camellia to Argentina.  As director of the Buenos Aires Zoological Garden he greatly developed its scientific aspect, publishing booklets and providing printed media for a learned appreciation of its contents.  He also directed the Natural History Cabinet of the University of Buenos Aires and published the standard reference works on botany and zoology used in his country for most of the 20th century.  While less distinguished for his writing, he was arguably the first science fiction writer in Latin America.  He wrote the first science fiction novel, "Viaje maravilloso del señor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte" ("Eng."  "The Marvellous Journey of Mr. Nic-Nac to the Planet Mars").  In 1879, he wrote "Horacio Kalibang o los autómatas" ("Eng."  "Horacio Kalibang or The Automatons"), the first short science fiction story of Latin America.
  Title: Tita Merello
  Passage: Tita Merello (born Laura Ana Merello; 11 October 1904 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – 24 December 2002 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960).  In her 6 decades in Argentine entertainment, at the time of her death, she had filmed over thirty movies, premiered twenty plays, had nine television appearances, completed three radio series and had had countless appearances in print media.  She was one of the singers who emerged in the 1920s along with Azucena Maizani, Libertad Lamarque, Ada Falcón, and Rosita Quiroga, who created the female voices of tango.  She was primarily remembered for the songs "Se dice de mí" and "La milonga y yo".
  Title: Magda Frank
  Passage: Magda Frank Fischer (July 20, 1914 – June 23, 2010) was a Hungarian-Argentine sculptor.  She was born in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, which at that time belonged to Hungary but in 1918, was incorporated into Romania.  Because of Nazi persecution, she left Hungary to settle in Switzerland.  Years later, she moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian.  In 1950, she arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina to visit her brother, her only living family member.  Here, she was appointed professor at the Artes Visuales de Buenos Aires and exhibited at the Galería Pizarro.  She participated in the Premio Palanza Buenos Aires.  She received the Benito Quinquela Martín award at the Eduardo Sívori Museum, and was honored by the Argentine Senate.  Her works are part of the collections at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires.  Frank resettled in Argentina in 1995 and built the Magda Frank House Museum in the Saavedra barrio at Vedia 3546.  She died in 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
citations: Jorge Blanco (musician) Violetta (telenovela)