{"id":7379,"date":"2023-08-12T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T12:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.korespa.com\/en\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2024-10-25T09:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:31:42","slug":"who-was-carlos-gardel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.korespa.com\/en\/who-was-carlos-gardel\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Carlos Gardel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Its maximum representative in the history of tango is Carlos Gardel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardel<\/strong> was a singer, composer and film actor. He was the initiator and highest exponent of the tango song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no unanimity about the place and date of his birth, it could have been in Tacuaremb\u00f3 (Uruguay) or in Toulouse (France), on December 11 between 1887 and 1890. He lived his childhood in Buenos Aires and became an Argentine national in 1923. He died on June 24, 1935 in Medell\u00edn, Colombia, in a plane crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image source: Wikimediacommons.org: Meridiano Tango -Mona Maris and Carlos Gardel<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Worldwide, he was one of the most important interpreters of popular music in the first half of the 20th century, due to the quality of his voice, the number of records sold (as a singer and a composer), for his numerous films related to tango and its global impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first singer who sang a tango for the first time was Carlos Gardel in 1917. That first tango sung and recorded \u201cMi noche triste\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interpretation of \u00abMi noche triste\u00bb by Gardel is considered the date of birth of the tango song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The success of the new style of tango song was not immediate. \u201cMy sad night\u201d, with its lunfarda lyrics and its theme about the man from the town abandoned by his wife, was not received enthusiastically by the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, the \u201cpure\u201d singers frowned on that street language and that tasteless sensuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following year (1918) the farce (comic theater piece) Los dientes del perro<\/em> , included a scene in which the actress Manolita Poli sang \u201cMy sad night\u201d. The number caused a sensation and was decisive for Gardel\u2019s version, released on record that year, to be a great success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then the sainete and the tango will establish a close link, promoting each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That year Gardel recorded another tango, \u201cA fuego lento\u201d, and little by little he built a repertoire made up mainly of tangos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardel\u2019s voice and way of singing also evolved as he became a tango singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardel made 957 recordings, covering 792 different topics. 229<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He not only recorded tangos; he also folk music, milongas, zambas, rancheras, tunes, styles, etc. (thirty genera in total). He recorded some foxtrots, a tango in Spanish and English, and also some traditional songs in French and Italian and even a tango in Guarani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His compositions are Volver<\/a> and Por una cabeza<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003 Gardel\u2019s voice was recorded by Unesco in the Memory of the World program, dedicated to the preservation of documents belonging to the historical heritage of the peoples of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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