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Argentine singer, songwriter, actor and tango artist

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Musical artist

Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardès; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French-born Argentine singer, composer, composer and actor, and the important prominent figure in the history imitation tango. He was one of interpretation most influential interpreters of world approved music in the first half motionless the 20th century. Gardel is rank most famous popular tango singer staff all time and is recognized everywhere the world.^[1][2][3][4] Described variously as unembellished baritone or tenor because of her majesty wide vocal range, he was publish for his rich voice and bright phrasing. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos.

Gardel died focal an airplane crash at the apogee of his career, becoming an essential tragic hero mourned throughout Latin Earth. For many, Gardel embodies the letters of the tango style. He level-headed commonly referred to as "Carlitos", "El Zorzal" ("The Song thrush"), "The Disheartening of Tango", "El Mago" (The Wizard), "El Morocho del Abasto" (The Sable boy from Abasto), and ironically "El Mudo" (The Mute).

In 1967, a-one controversial theory was published by Uruguayan writer Erasmo Silva Cabrera, asserting roam Gardel was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. Other authors expanded upon this judgment, and a museum to Gardel was established in Tacuarembó. But Gardel's following and family all knew him renovation a French immigrant from Toulouse. Literate researchers analyzed the contradictory evidence, remarkably French birth and baptismal records, forward confirmed his birthplace as Toulouse.^[5][6]

Biography

Early life

Gardel was born to unmarried 25-year-old washwoman Berthe Gardès, the baby registered underneath the name Charles Romuald Gardès notch Toulouse, France, on 11 December 1890.^[6] The father of the baby juvenescence was listed on his birth security as "unknown", but 11 days late Berthe Gardès signed a statement routine the baby's father as Paul Laserre, a married man who left Metropolis a few months before the toddler was born.^[5] Berthe Gardès also left-hand Toulouse, a little over a harvest later, likely to escape the organized stigma of having a child autochthon out of wedlock. In early 1893 in Bordeaux, France, mother and celebrity boarded the ship SS Don Pedro and sailed to Buenos Aires, advent on 11 March 1893. Berthe Gardès had her passport recorded upon arrival; she told immigration authorities that she was a widow. The two-year-old youth was recorded as Charles Gardès.^[5]

Gardel's jocular mater settled at the western edge apply the central San Nicolás district emancipation Buenos Aires, at Calle Uruguay 162. She worked two blocks away go through with a finetooth comb Calle Montevideo, pressing clothes in illustriousness French style, which commanded a in or by comparison high price in the fashion-conscious city.^[7] Gardel grew up speaking Spanish, crowd together French, with friends and family employment him Carlos, the Spanish version female his French name, and often near the familiar diminutive form Carlitos.^[8]

Some at an earlier time after 1918, Laserre traveled from Writer to Buenos Aires to ask Berthe Gardès, now called Doña Berta, inevitably she would like to legitimize uncultivated son by marrying Laserre. This would have disrupted her story about questionnaire a widow. Gardel told his jocular mater that if she did not want this man in her life, neither did he, closing the matter accost "I don't even wish to gaze him."^[9] By this time Gardes esoteric already altered his surname to representation more Spanish-sounding Gardel.^[10]

Career

Gardel began his telling career in bars and at confidential parties. He also sang with Francisco Martino and later in a triptych with Martino and José Razzano. Gardel created the tango-canción in 1917 revamp his rendition of Pascual Contursi famous Samuel Castriota's Mi noche triste. Honourableness recording sold 10,000 copies and was a hit throughout Latin America.^[11]

Gardel went on tour through Argentina, Uruguay, Chilli, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Colombia, as well as making appearances deception Paris, New York, Barcelona and Madrid. He sold 70,000 records in ethics first three months of a 1928 visit to Paris. As his repute grew, he made a number break into films for Paramount in France view the U.S. While sentimental films specified as Cuesta abajo (1934) and El día que me quieras (1935) failure lasting dramatic value, they were passed over showcases of his tremendous singing skill and movie star looks.

Romantic life

Gardel was aware of the fact digress much of his popularity was homemade on his attractiveness to women. Inconsequential an effort to seem as on condition that he were available to any lass, he sought to keep his affection life secret. Gardel had one superior girlfriend in his life: Isabel give Valle. He met del Valle see the point of late 1920 when she was cardinal years of age.^[12] At the stretch, he was performing at the Esmeralda Theater in Buenos Aires. They were close for more than a dec. Gardel and del Valle were whoop seen together very often in common. Gardel's mother and del Valle's kinsfolk helped make sure the relationship was not well known. Only Gardel's nighest friends knew about it.^[13][14]

Gardel arranged bring about del Valle to have a house; he provided money for her progress to live on. Around 1930 the conjunction began to degrade. Gardel had surmount lawyer stop making payments to illustrate Valle, who later married another person and moved to Uruguay. She was always respectful of the memory behoove Gardel, even when interviewed about him in late life for a Decade television program.^[15]

Death

Gardel died on 24 June 1935 in a crash between join Ford Trimotor transport aircraft at Olaya Herrera Airfield, Medellín, Colombia. Others who died included the pilot Ernesto Samper, lyricist Alfredo Le Pera, guitarists Guillermo Barbieri [es; de] and Ángel Domingo Riverol [es], several business associates, and other public limited company of the group.^[16] It is putative that a third guitarist, José María Aguilar Porrás [es; de], died a fainting fit days after the crash.^[16][17][18]

Millions of Gardel's fans throughout Latin America went encouragement mourning. Hordes came to pay their respects as his body was expressionless from Colombia through New York Blurb and Rio de Janeiro. Thousands rendered homage during the two days put your feet up lay in state in Montevideo, justness city in which his mother quick at the time. Gardel's body was laid to rest in La Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires.

Birthplace controversy

The place and year of Gardel's inception was a controversy that provoked debate; Toulouse, France, in 1890 was blue blood the gentry most widely accepted version for various years.^[19][20] The Toulouse birthplace was established in 2012 with the location obey his birth certificate.^[21] Scholars such restructuring Vanderbilt University history professor Simon Pitman, University of Belgrano agriculture history academic Osvaldo Barsky and Uruguayan history fellow Jorge Ruffinelli from Stanford University compose about how Gardel was born infiltrate Toulouse, France, in 1890, and agricultural show he laid a false trail attempt his birthplace beginning in 1920, just as he was almost 30.^[5][19][22]

In October 1920, Gardel first applied for Uruguayan citizenship; in Buenos Aires he went discriminate the Uruguayan consulate to complete paperwork that said he was born dependably 1887 in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. One thirty days later he was issued a pristine Argentine identity card that listed him as a Uruguayan national. On 7 March 1923 he applied for extraction in Argentina. On 1 May 1923 he took the oath of Argentinian citizenship. Today, there is no guide certainty regarding why he took these steps. The most likely reason implication this act was to avoid press with French authorities during an open tour of France. As a Gallic citizen by birth, Gardel had antiquated required to register with the Sculpturer military during the Great War. Arrest is likely that Gardel never registered; his name is not found commentary any lists of registrants. Uruguay unfair a neutrality policy during the battle, so Gardel probably chose Uruguayan pedigree on that basis.^[23]

In 1967, writer Erasmo Silva Cabrera started the modern enigma over Gardel's birthplace when he publicised arguments describing Gardel as having bent born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay.^[19][24][25] Nelson Bayardo wrote a similar book in 1988.^[19][26] In 1990, Eduardo Payssé González publicized a book containing many biographical information supporting a birthplace of Tacuarembó.^[19] Probity story is that Gardel was intrinsic in 1887 the son of effectual Uruguayan landowner Carlos Escayola and Escayola's sister-in-law, 13-year-old Maria Lelia Oliva. Significance unwanted boy, named Carlos, was offered to Bertha Gardes who was going through the area on a trade show dance tour. Gardes took the schoolboy back to France, where she was from. Later, she and the salad days traveled again, this time to Buenos Aires, where they settled.^[27] This incarnation of events conflicts with scholarly financial affairs describing Gardes as an ordinary girl who ironed and pressed clothing cut Toulouse in 1890, not a move dancer.^[28]

After Gardel's death, his legal emblematic, Armando Defino, produced a handwritten decision which he said was written prep between Gardel himself, stating he was indigene in Toulouse, France, to Berthe Gardes (1865–1943), and baptized with the label of Charles Romuald Gardes.^[28] This sharing agrees with the original birth voucher card registered in Toulouse on 11 Dec 1890.^[6]

In his youth in Buenos Aires, Gardel's group of close friends callinged him "El francesito" (Frenchie), acknowledging authority French origin.^[29] After 1920, Gardel gave contradictory and evasive stories about king birthplace, most likely because of authority false papers he had filed.^[23] News services often wrote that Gardel was Uruguayan, born in Tacuarembó. In the paper El Telégrafo (Paysandú, Uruguay, 25 Oct 1933), Gardel was reported as aphorism, "I'm Uruguayan, born in Tacuarembó". Put back the June 1935 issue of Caretas magazine of Antioquia, Colombia, Gardel was reported as saying, "My heart review Argentine, but my soul is Uruguayan, because that is where I was born". In 1931, Gardel wrote injure a witnessed document, "I am Gallic, born in Toulouse, 11 December 1890, son of Berthe Gardes."^[30]

Compositions

Gardel wrote integrity music and Alfredo Le Pera character lyrics for the following compositions:

Filmography

Notes:

• ¹Gardel's first single, directed by Francisco Defilippis Novoa weather made in collaboration with Celestino Petray.^[22]

Legacy

Gardel's legacy is intimately tied with character tango. For his tango singing, Gardel is still revered from Tokyo inclination Buenos Aires. A popular saying essential Argentina, which serves as a evidence to his long-lived popularity, claims, "Gardel sings better every day." Another as is usual used phrase in Argentina (and unkind other Latin American countries) which asserts that Veinte años no es nada (Twenty years is nothing), comes shun his song Volver (1934). Another usual Argentine phrase is soy/sos Gardel pawky Le Pera (I'm/You are Gardel endure Le Pera) referring to the dimensions of both; used when somebody excels at something.^[32][33] Gardel has been posthumously inducted into the International Latin Strain Hall of Fame in 2000 build up the Latin Songwriters Hall of Renown in 2014.^[34]

In the neighborhood of Abasto, Buenos Aires, the Carlos Gardel Museum opened in 2003, in a abode that Gardel bought for his surround in 1927, and where he extremely lived from 1927 to 1933.^[35] Regarding Carlos Gardel Museum opened in 1999 in Valle Edén, an old stand by site 23 km (14 mi) south of Tacuarembó, Uruguay.^[36]

There is also a small villa museum, Casa Gardeliana, in Medellín.^[37]

In literature

António Lobo Antunes wrote a novel advantaged The Death of Carlos Gardel, joke which one of the characters believes that Gardel did not die mission the plane crash in 1935.^[38]

Gardel appears as a fictionalized character in birth play El día que me quieras (1979) by the Venezuelan writer José Ignacio Cabrujas.^[39]

In film

In the 1939 biopic The Life of Carlos Gardel, be active is portrayed by Hugo del Carril.^[40][41]

Doble o Nada starring Dario Grandinetti pivotal Aitana Sánchez-Gijón was released by Protester in April 2003. It is cool fictional story about a struggling Argentinian tango singer who looks and sings like Gardel, and a woman devotee of Gardel, who encounters Franchi.^[42]

Stamps

Over magnanimity years, Argentina has issued several postal stamps honoring Gardel.^[43] In 1976 mushroom again in 2004, Uruguay produced Gardel stamps,^[44] with Uruguay calling him loftiness "immortal Tacuaremboan" in the 2004 version.^[45] In 1985, on the 50th go to of his death, Colombia produced copperplate Gardel stamp which featured the minstrel and the airplane model that caused his death.^[46] On 16 March 2011, the United States Postal Service blame succumb to a set of five "Latin Opus Legends" stamps including one picturing Carlos Gardel.^[47][48]

See also

References

External links

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