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Carlos Gardel (1890 - 1935) was an enormously popular tango singer killed in an airplane crash at the height of his career. For many music fans, Gardel embodies the soul of the tango, a musical form and dance which evolved in the immigrant suburbs of Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century.

Gardel possessed a baritone voice 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 also wrote several classic tangos, notably Mi Buenos Aires querido, Volver, Por una cabeza and El día que me quieras.

Gardel began his career singing in bars and at private parties and in 1913 formed a duet with José Razzano (which would last until 1925), singing a wide repertory. Gardel made the music his own by inventing the tango-canción in 1917 with Mi Noche Triste, which sold a 100,000 copies and was a hit throughout Latin America. Gardel went on to tour Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia and made appearances in Barcelona, Paris and New York. He sold 70,000 records in the first three months of a 1928 visit to Paris. As his popularity grew, he made a number of films, which were essentially vehicles for his singing and matinée-idol looks.

When Gardel and his collaborator Le Pera were killed in an airplane crash in Medellín, Colombia in 1935, millions of his fans throughout Latin America went into mourning. Hordes of people thronged to pay their respects as the singer's body travelled via Colombia, New York and Rio de Janeiro to its final resting place in La Chacarita cemetery in Buenos Aires.

Gardel is still revered from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, where people like to say that "he sings better every day." His fans still like to place a lit cigarette in the fingers of the life-sized statue which adorns his tomb.

1.Carlos Gardel - Mano a mano (03:06)
2.Carlos Gardel - El dia que me quieras (03:19)
3.Carlos Gardel - Tomo y obligo (02:08)
4.Carlos Gardel - Volvio una noche (02:59)
5.Carlos Gardel - Anclado en paris (02:08)
6.Carlos Gardel - Volver (02:51)
7.Carlos Gardel - Yira yira (02:46)
8.Carlos Gardel - Golondrinas (02:45)
9.Carlos Gardel - Silencio (02:42)
10.Carlos Gardel - La cumparsita (02:15)
11.Carlos Gardel - Milonga sentimental (02:59)
12.Carlos Gardel - Amores de estudiantes (02:32)
13.Carlos Gardel - Adios muchachos (02:26)
14.Carlos Gardel - Malevaje (02:24)
15.Carlos Gardel - Rubias de Nueva York (02:26)
16.Carlos Gardel - Melodia de arrabal (02:34)
17.Carlos Gardel - Criollita deci que si (02:43)
18.Carlos Gardel - Sus ojos se cerraron (02:41)
19.Carlos Gardel - Lejana tierra (02:42)
20.Carlos Gardel - Mi buenos aires querido (02:38)

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