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5 unusual facts about Carlos Gardel


Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport

On June 24, 1935, internationally renowned Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel and a group of his musicians were killed in a collision between two small airplanes at the Olaya Herra Airport.

Estanislao Zuleta

His father died on June 24, 1935 in the same plane crash that killed the famous Tango composer and singer Carlos Gardel in his visit to the Colombian Andean city.

Ráfaga

4 Gardel awards for Best Tropical Band (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)

Valle Edén

The hamlet includes a train station, a police station, a school (Escuela 23) and a museum, the Museo Carlos Gardel dedicated to Carlos Gardel, the famous tango singer, songwriter and actor.

Zoilo Canavery

Other musical artists that mention Canavery in his notes was Juan Sarcione, composer of the lyrics and the music of the tango Largue esa Mujica, this theme was interpreted by Carlos Gardel and recorded in 1929 for the Odeon label.


Arotxa

His biggest caricature is the "Gardelazo" in Tacuarembó, a gigantography 26 m tall in honor to tango singer Carlos Gardel.

Eduardo Cuitiño

Eduardo Cuitiño Bosio (Montevideo, January 28, 1974) is a Uruguayan writer/author and mathematician known for his investigations and essays on two historic figures: Carlos Gardel and Jack the Ripper.

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

In 1931, he collaborated on the flm score for Luces de Buenos Aires, shot in Joinville-le-Pont, France, and starring renowned tango vocalist Carlos Gardel.

Juan Carlos Baglietto

On a more traditional vein, together with Lito Vitale he headed a collaboration that culminated in Postales de este lado del mundo (1991), an album which included themes from popular traditional Argentine composers, like Carlos Gardel, Homero Manzi, the brothers Expósito, Mariano Mores, Enrique Santos Discépolo and María Elena Walsh.

Names of Buenos Aires

The oft-used expression mi Buenos Aires querido ("my beloved Buenos Aires") is the name of both a song popularized by tango singer Carlos Gardel and an eponymous movie.

Uruguayan people

The famed tango singer Carlos Gardel was born in Toulouse, France, then raised in Buenos Aires, but as an adult he obtained legal papers saying he was born in Tacuarembó, probably to avoid French military authorities.


see also

Horacio Ferrer

He worked with a series of renowned tango musicians such as Roberto Grela, Leopoldo Federico and Paul Garello and with Horacio Salgán he composed the Oratorio Carlos Gardel in 1975.