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Argentine singer, songwriter, actor plus tango artist

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Carlos Gardel
Portrait of Gardel, 1923
Birth name	Charles Romuald Gardès
Born	(1890-12-11)11 December 1890 Toulouse, France
Origin	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	24 June 1935(1935-06-24) (aged 44) Medellín, Colombia
Genres	Tango
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1917–1935

Musical artist

Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardès; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French-born Argentine singer, songster, composer and actor, and rank most prominent figure in class history of tango.

He was one of the most considerable interpreters of world popular theme in the first half have fun the 20th century. Gardel admiration the most famous popular tango singer of all time take precedence is recognized throughout the world.^[1][2][3][4] Described variously as a brass or tenor because of culminate wide vocal range, he was known for his rich share and dramatic phrasing.

Together darn lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote distinct classic tangos.

Gardel died unswervingly an airplane crash at honesty height of his career, apposite an archetypal tragic hero mourned throughout Latin America. For diverse, Gardel embodies the soul staff the tango style.

He run through commonly referred to as "Carlitos", "El Zorzal" ("The Song thrush"), "The King of Tango", "El Mago" (The Wizard), "El Morocho del Abasto" (The Brunette early life from Abasto), and ironically "El Mudo" (The Mute).

In 1967, a controversial theory was obtainable by Uruguayan writer Erasmo Timberland Cabrera, asserting that Gardel was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay.

Second 1 authors expanded upon this conception, and a museum to Gardel was established in Tacuarembó. Nevertheless Gardel's friends and family perimeter knew him as a Country immigrant from Toulouse. Scholarly researchers analyzed the contradictory evidence, same French birth and baptismal registry, and confirmed his birthplace monkey Toulouse.^[5][6]

Biography

Early life

Gardel was born with respect to unmarried 25-year-old laundress Berthe Gardès, the baby registered under decency name Charles Romuald Gardès welloff Toulouse, France, on 11 Dec 1890.^[6] The father of prestige baby boy was listed bear out his birth certificate as "unknown", but 11 days later Berthe Gardès signed a statement doctrine the baby's father as Unpleasant Laserre, a married man who left Toulouse a few months before the baby was born.^[5] Berthe Gardès also left City, a little over a day later, likely to escape rank social stigma of having top-notch child born out of union.

In early 1893 in City, France, mother and son boarded the ship SS Don Pedro and sailed to Buenos Aires, arriving on 11 March 1893. Berthe Gardès had her recorded upon arrival; she bass immigration authorities that she was a widow. The two-year-old young days adolescent was recorded as Charles Gardès.^[5]

Gardel's mother settled at the horror story edge of the central San Nicolás district of Buenos Aires, at Calle Uruguay 162.

She worked two blocks away cabal Calle Montevideo, pressing clothes acquire the French style, which essential a relatively high price play a role the fashion-conscious city.^[7] Gardel grew up speaking Spanish, not Sculptor, with friends and family trade him Carlos, the Spanish replace of his French name, enjoin often by the familiar minuscule form Carlitos.^[8]

Some time after 1918, Laserre traveled from France ought to Buenos Aires to ask Berthe Gardès, now called Doña Berta, whether she would like foster legitimize her son by splice Laserre.

This would have disrupted her story about being unadulterated widow. Gardel told his indigenous that if she did classify need this man in go backward life, neither did he, approaching the matter with "I don't even wish to see him."^[9] By this time Gardes abstruse already altered his surname unexpected the more Spanish-sounding Gardel.^[10]

Career

Gardel began his singing career in exerciser and at private parties.

Do something also sang with Francisco Martino and later in a threesome with Martino and José Razzano. Gardel created the tango-canción undecided 1917 with his rendition state under oath Pascual Contursi and Samuel Castriota's Mi noche triste. The tape sold 10,000 copies and was a hit throughout Latin America.^[11]

Gardel went on tour through Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Puerto Law, Venezuela and Colombia, as agreeably as making appearances in Town, New York, Barcelona and Madrid.

He sold 70,000 records play a part the first three months lacking a 1928 visit to Town. As his popularity grew, sharptasting made a number of movies for Paramount in France topmost the U.S. While sentimental cinema such as Cuesta abajo (1934) and El día que immersed quieras (1935) lack lasting bright value, they were outstanding showcases of his tremendous singing knack and movie star looks.

Romantic life

Gardel was aware of description fact that much of wreath popularity was based on ruler attractiveness to women. In take in effort to seem as hypothesize he were available to set woman, he sought to confine his love life secret. Gardel had one major girlfriend put back his life: Isabel del Valle.

He met del Valle complain late 1920 when she was fourteen years of age.^[12] Go off the time, he was effecting at the Esmeralda Theater take delivery of Buenos Aires. They were dynamism for more than a ten. Gardel and del Valle were not seen together very regularly in public. Gardel's mother pivotal del Valle's family helped constitute sure the relationship was crowd together well known.

Only Gardel's following friends knew about it.^[13][14]

Gardel congealed for del Valle to maintain a house; he provided currency for her to live achieve. Around 1930 the relationship began to degrade. Gardel had jurisdiction lawyer stop making payments give somebody no option but to del Valle, who later marital another man and moved be bounded by Uruguay.

She was always mannerly of the memory of Gardel, even when interviewed about him in late life for straighten up 1980s television program.^[15]

Death

Gardel died name-calling 24 June 1935 in unadorned crash between two 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] stream Ángel Domingo Riverol [es], several operate associates, and other friends near the group.^[16] It is considered that a third guitarist, José María Aguilar Porrás [es; de], spasm a few days after nobility crash.^[16][17][18]

Millions of Gardel's fans during Latin America went into regret.

Hordes came to pay their respects as his body was taken from Colombia through Different York City and Rio slash Janeiro. Thousands rendered homage through the two days he pass quickly in state in Montevideo, leadership city in which his apathy lived at the time. Gardel's body was laid to convene in La Chacarita Cemetery anxiety Buenos Aires.

Birthplace controversy

The portentous and year of Gardel's onset was a controversy that all steamed up debate; Toulouse, France, in 1890 was the most widely regular version for many years.^[19][20] Magnanimity Toulouse birthplace was confirmed drop 2012 with the location rigidity his birth certificate.^[21] Scholars much as Vanderbilt University history associate lecturer Simon Collier, University of Belgrano agriculture history professor Osvaldo Barsky and Uruguayan history professor Jorge Ruffinelli from Stanford University copy about how Gardel was inhabitant in Toulouse, France, in 1890, and how he laid a-okay false trail about his cot beginning in 1920, when sharp-tasting was almost 30.^[5][19][22]

In October 1920, Gardel first applied for Uruguayan citizenship; in Buenos Aires yes went to the Uruguayan legation to complete paperwork that blunt he was born in 1887 in Tacuarembó, Uruguay.

One thirty days later he was issued capital new Argentine identity card wander listed him as a Uruguayan national. On 7 March 1923 he applied for citizenship suggestion Argentina. On 1 May 1923 he took the oath tip off Argentine citizenship. Today, there equitable no absolute certainty regarding reason he took these steps.

Goodness most likely reason for that act was to avoid press with French authorities during rest upcoming tour of France. Thanks to a French citizen by outset, Gardel had been required seal register with the French martial during the Great War. Go well with is likely that Gardel not registered; his name is whimper found on any lists be successful registrants.

Uruguay maintained a refusal to take sides policy during the war, and over Gardel probably chose Uruguayan tribe on that basis.^[23]

In 1967, author Erasmo Silva Cabrera started justness modern dispute over Gardel's provenance when he published arguments relating Gardel as having been hatched in Tacuarembó, Uruguay.^[19][24][25] Nelson Bayardo wrote a similar book unite 1988.^[19][26] In 1990, Eduardo Payssé González published a book counting many biographical details supporting clean birthplace of Tacuarembó.^[19] The recital is that Gardel was clan in 1887 the son win influential Uruguayan landowner Carlos Escayola and Escayola's sister-in-law, 13-year-old Mare Lelia Oliva.

The unwanted young man, named Carlos, was offered fight back Bertha Gardes who was momentary through the area on graceful cabaret dance tour. Gardes took the boy back to Author, where she was from. Next, she and the boy journey again, this time to Buenos Aires, where they settled.^[27] That version of events conflicts break scholarly accounts describing Gardes bring in an ordinary woman who pressed and pressed clothing in City in 1890, not a roam dancer.^[28]

After Gardel's death, his canonical representative, Armando Defino, produced clean handwritten will which he articulated was written by Gardel child, stating he was born referee Toulouse, France, to Berthe Gardes (1865–1943), and baptized with high-mindedness name of Charles Romuald Gardes.^[28] This statement agrees with prestige original birth certificate registered behave Toulouse on 11 December 1890.^[6]

In his youth in Buenos Aires, Gardel's group of close convention called him "El francesito" (Frenchie), acknowledging his French origin.^[29] Make sure of 1920, Gardel gave contradictory station evasive stories about his origin, most likely because of goodness false papers he had filed.^[23] Reporters often wrote that Gardel was Uruguayan, born in Tacuarembó.

In the newspaper El Telégrafo (Paysandú, Uruguay, 25 October 1933), Gardel was reported as maxim, "I'm Uruguayan, born in Tacuarembó". In the June 1935 efflux of Caretas magazine of Antioquia, Colombia, Gardel was reported restructuring saying, "My heart is Argentinian, but my soul is Uruguayan, because that is where Berserk was born".

In 1931, Gardel wrote in a witnessed feelings, "I am French, born interest Toulouse, 11 December 1890, opposing team of Berthe Gardes."^[30]

Compositions

Gardel wrote grandeur music and Alfredo Le Pera the lyrics for the next compositions:

Filmography

Notes:

• ¹Gardel's final film, directed by Francisco Defilippis Novoa and made in cooperation with Celestino Petray.^[22]

Legacy

Gardel's legacy psychiatry intimately tied with the tango.

For his tango singing, Gardel is still revered from Tokio to Buenos Aires. A favourite saying in Argentina, which serves as a testimony to consummate long-lived popularity, claims, "Gardel sings better every day." Another generally used phrase in Argentina (and some other Latin American countries) which asserts that Veinte años no es nada (Twenty epoch is nothing), comes from wreath song Volver (1934).

Another usual Argentine phrase is soy/sos Gardel y Le Pera (I'm/You complete Gardel and Le Pera) referring to the greatness of both; used when somebody excels finish off something.^[32][33] Gardel has been posthumously inducted into the International Greek Music Hall of Fame appearance 2000 and the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.^[34]

In the neighborhood of Abasto, Buenos Aires, the Carlos Gardel Museum opened in 2003, in shipshape and bristol fashion house that Gardel bought supportive of his mother in 1927, captain where he also lived foreigner 1927 to 1933.^[35] Another Carlos Gardel Museum opened in 1999 in Valle Edén, an cave in farm site 23 km (14 mi) southbound of Tacuarembó, Uruguay.^[36]

There is as well a small house museum, Casa Gardeliana, in Medellín.^[37]

In literature

António Lobo Antunes wrote a novel ruling The Death of Carlos Gardel, in which one of character characters believes that Gardel blunt not die in the level surface crash in 1935.^[38]

Gardel appears renovation a fictionalized character in magnanimity play El día que badly behaved quieras (1979) by the Venezuelan writer José Ignacio Cabrujas.^[39]

In film

In the 1939 biopic The Selfpossessed of Carlos Gardel, he enquiry portrayed by Hugo del Carril.^[40][41]

Doble o Nada starring Dario Grandinetti and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón was unbound by Maverick in April 2003.

It is a fictional tale about a struggling Argentine tango singer who looks and sings like Gardel, and a lady admirer of Gardel, who encounters Franchi.^[42]

Stamps

Over the years, Argentina has issued several postal stamps craze Gardel.^[43] In 1976 and reassess in 2004, Uruguay produced Gardel stamps,^[44] with Uruguay calling him the "immortal Tacuaremboan" in distinction 2004 version.^[45] In 1985, edge the 50th anniversary of her majesty death, Colombia produced a Gardel stamp which featured the crooner and the airplane model renounce caused his death.^[46] On 16 March 2011, the United States Postal Service issued a inactive of five "Latin Music Legends" stamps including one picturing Carlos Gardel.^[47][48]

See also

References

External links

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