Carlos Gardel
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Carlos Gardel (December 11, 1887–June 24, 1935), was an enormously popular tango singer who for many embodied the soul of this musical form, which evolved in the poor neighborhoods of Montevideo and Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century.
Born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay, he was the son of Colonel Carlos Escayola and Maria Lelia de Escayola. The result of an adulterous affair, his care is given to a French immigrant under his employ, Berthe Gardes, becoming his adoptive mother. Ten years after his birth, Carlitos begins his career in Abasto, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires; hence one of his nicknames: "El morocho del Abasto" ("the dark-haired man from Abasto").
Gardel possessed a dark, sensual baritone voice which was recognized early on by the Italian tenor Titto Rufo, who helped in the education of Carlos' voice. He deployed with unerring musicality and dramatic phrasing, creating miniature masterpieces among the hundreds of three-minute tangos which he recorded during his lifetime. Together with his long-term collaborator, lyricist Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos, notably "Mi Buenos Aires Querido", "Volver", "Por una cabeza".
Gardel made a number of films, which were essentially vehicles for his singing and his matinee-idol looks.
When Gardel (together with Le Pera) was killed in an airplane crash in Medellín, Colombia in 1935 at the height of his career, millions of his fans throughout Latin America were thrown into profound grief.
Gardel is still revered throughout the world, where people say of him that "he sings better and better every day." In addition, one of his favorite phrases, Veinte años no es nada (Twenty years are nothing) became a famous saying across Latin America.
Carlos Gardel was interred in the Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires.
Films
- Luces de Buenos Aires (1931) (filmed in Paris)
- Esperame (1933)
- La Casa es seria (1933)
- Melodia de Arrabal (1933)
- Cuesta abajo (1934)
- El Tango en Broadway (1934)
- El Día que me quieras (1935)
- Cazadores de estrellas (1935)
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