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Carlos Gardel and Celia Villa in The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Lolita Benavente and Carlos Gardel in La casa es seria (1933)

Imperio Argentina and Carlos Gardel in Melodía de arrabal (1933)

Carlos Gardel and Mona Maris in Cuesta abajo (1934)

Jaime Devesa, Carlos Gardel, Vincent Padula, Trini Ramos, and Blanca Vischer in El tango en Broadway (1934)

Carlos Gardel, Jorge Infante, and Vincent Padula in Las luces de Buenos Aires (1931)

Helena D'Algy and Carlos Gardel in Melodía de arrabal (1933)

Carlos Gardel in The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Carlos Gardel, Alfredo Le Pera, and Mona Maris in Cuesta abajo (1934)

Carlos Gardel and Ilde Pirovano in Flor de durazno (1917)

Carlos Gardel and Rosita Moreno in El día que me quieras (1935)

Carlos Gardel, Manuel Peluffo, and Carlos Spaventa in The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Carlos Gardel in El tango en Broadway (1934)

Carlos Gardel, William Miller, and John Reinhardt in Tango Bar (1935)

Carlos Gardel and Trini Ramos in El tango en Broadway (1934)

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Carlos Gardel in El día que me quieras (1935)

Known as El Zorzal Criollo, the songbird of Buenos Aires, Carlos Gardel is a legendary figure in Uruguay and Argentina. He was born on December 11st, 1890, in Toulouse (France). His place of birth have been claimed by the Uruguayans and Argentinians, however, his Birth Certificate and his Will proves, and leaves no doubt, that Carlos Gardel was born in France. The charismatic singer's career coincided with the development of that intrinsically Argentine cultural icon, the tango (the traditional Argentinean music).

The elite overcame their aversion to the tango's humble origins and open sensuality only when the man and his music were already widely accepted in New York and Paris.

Radio performances and a film career extended this appeal. Gardel's sky-rocketing career was cut short in 1935, when he lost his life in a plane crash in Colombia. An orgy of grief swept from New York to Puerto Rico, and a woman in Havana suicided. Hordes of people thronged to pay their respects as the singer's body made the journey to its final resting place in a Buenos Aires cemetery, traveling via Colombia, New York and Río de Janeiro. Instantly immortal and preserved forever young, his enduring fame is measured by the oft-heard Argentine expression 'Gardel sings better every day'. Sixty years after his death, a devoted following keeps the legend blazing, playing Gardel's music daily, placing a lit cigarette in the hand of the life-sized statue which graces his tomb and keeping his few films in circulation.

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