Carlos Gardel

singer, songwriter (1890-1935)

Carlos Gardel was born, so they say, on December 11, 1890 in the French city of Toulouse. He arrived in Argentina when he was three years old.

When in 1915 he recorded "Mi noche triste" with José Razzano, the era of the tango canción begun. Together with Le Pera, he composed dozens of famous tangos. In Paris he sold 110 thousand records in less than a year. He shot eleven movies in the United States. He had recorded about 800 tunes when on June 24, 1935, he died in a plane crash in Medellín, Colombia.

From: Todo Tango