[1] When performing, Villoldo often played the guitar and harmonica, and succeeded in telling stories by singing, which added to the entertainment of his audiences at ordinary cafés and joints.

In 1889, he published a compilation of cantos criollos (creole folk songs), including original lyrics that were meant to be sung with guitar.

Among other things, he was a "cuarteador" in the neighborhoods far from downtown Buenos Aires; he waited on horseback for the arrival of a big coach or streetcar at the bottom of slopes, and then helped them get out of the mud or get uphill.

[1] With a knack for writing, Villoldo devised stanzas for carnival groups and numerous poems and wrote prose for well-known magazines of the time such as Caras y caretas.

His work is filled with witty sarcasm, and his dialogues were suitable for the common person's tongue and always referred to real situations experienced by ordinary people, including love affairs, depicting the manner of speaking and behavior of the lowest social level of society.