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Carlos Gardel
Carlos Gardel was a French-born Argentine singer, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was one of the most influential interpreters of popular music in the first half of the 20th century. Gardel is the most famous tango singer of all time and is recognized throughout the world. Described variously as a baritone or tenor because of his wide vocal range, he w…
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entertainment · Argentine singer, songwriter, actor and tango artist (1890–1935) · singer · actor · composer · singer-songwriter · musician · also Carlos Gardel, Charles Romuald Gardes, Charles Gardes, Gardel
Born 11 December 1890 · Died 24 June 1935 · Q229613
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2022· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
Released album “Now's the Time”.
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “Tango”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Guitarra mía: Tangos by Gardel and Piazzolla”.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Sus 50 Mejores Tangos”.
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “José van Dam Meets Carlos Gardel”.
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Awarded Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame (2014).
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2012· 2 entries
KCRW: Carlos Gardel & Frank Sinatra: A Little-Known Story
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With the location of his birth certificate
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Inolvidables del tango vol.1”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Gardel Remixed”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Interpreta a Cadícamo”.
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2004· 13 entries
Released album “100 por Carlos Gardel”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 13 (1924)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 15 (1924/1925)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 23 (1926)”.
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Released album “Dejavu Retro Gold Collection”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 21 (1926)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 16 (1925)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 22 (1926)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 14 (1924)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 17 (1925)”.
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Released album “Adiós muchachos”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 19 (1925)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 18 (1925)”.
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2003· 2 entries
In a house that Gardel bought for his mother in 1927, and where he also lived from 1927 to 1933
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Released album “Grandes éxitos”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Confesión”.
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2001· 15 entries
Awarded Latin Grammy Hall of Fame for El día que me quieras (2001).
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Released album “Todo Gardel 20 (1925-1926)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 1 (1912)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 12 (1923-1924)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 11 (1923-2)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 5 (1920-1921)”.
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Released album “Tangos Inacabables”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 6 (1921)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 4 (1919-1920)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 3 (1917-1918-1919)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 9 (1922-1923)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 2 (1917)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 10 (1923-1)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 8 (1922-2)”.
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Released album “Todo Gardel 7 (1922-1)”.
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2000· 6 entries
Released album “Tango es...”.
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Awarded International Latin Music Hall of Fame (2000).
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Released album “Los grandes éxitos de Carlos Gardel”.
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And the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014
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Released album “Los grandes clásicos del tango”.
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Released album “RCA: 100 años de música: Carlos Gardel”.
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1999· 6 entries
In Valle Edén, an old farm site 23 km (14 mi) south of Tacuarembó, Uruguay
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Released album “Tango argentino: Sus más grandes temas”.
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Released album “The Magic of Carlos Gardel”.
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Released album “Reliquias: Poesía lunfarda, vol. 2”.
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Released album “Reliquias: Inigualable”.
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Released album “30 éxitos de oro”.
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1998· 8 entries
Released album “The Best of Carlos Gardel”.
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Released album “Sentir el tango: Viejo smoking”.
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Released album “Sentir el tango: Madreselva”.
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Released album “The Gold Collection”.
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Released album “Sentir el tango: El día que me quieras”.
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Released album “Reliquias: De guapos y malevos”.
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Released album “A Portrait of Carlos Gardel”.
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Released album “Sentir el tango: Caminito”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Reliquias: Poesía lunfarda”.
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1996· 5 entries
Released album “Reliquias: Buenos Aires”.
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Released album “Collection Or”.
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Released album “Homenaje a Carlos Gardel”.
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Released album “Selection of Carlos Gardel”.
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Released album “The Tango King”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Antología 60° aniversario”.
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1994· 7 entries
Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 19: Siga el corso”.
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Released album “Carlos Gardel”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 17: El gaucho”.
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Released album “Serie 20 éxitos”.
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Released album “Tango argentino”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 21: Acuarelas de arrabal”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 20: Tango porteño”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “El Tango Canción: The Birth of Tango”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Tangos”.
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1991· 10 entries
Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 9: Criollita decí que sí”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 16: Tango argentino”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 13: Cuídense porque andan sueltos”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 14: Tomo y obligo”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 12: Aquellas farras”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 18: Caricias y angustias”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 10: Gardel por el mundo”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 15: Bandoneón arrabalero”.
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Released album “The ★ Collection”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 11: Pobres chicas”.
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1990· 10 entries
Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 5: Eran otros hombres”.
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Released album “Tangos argentinos”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 7: Gardel en Nueva York”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 8: Garçonniere, carreras, timba...”.
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Eduardo Payssé González published a book containing many biographical details supporting a birthplace of Tacuarembó
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 3: Gardel en Barcelona”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 2: Amores difíciles”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 1: Su Buenos Aires querido”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 4: Las mujeres aquellas”.
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Released album “Su obra integral, volumen 6: Anclao en París”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “For Export”.
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Released album “12 clásicos”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Lo mejor de Carlos Gardel”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Grandes del tango 1”.
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Released album “Album de oro”.
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1985· 1 entry
On the 50th anniversary of his death, Colombia produced a Gardel stamp which featured the singer and the airplane model that caused his death
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “20 grandes éxitos”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Recuerdos de oro”.
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1976· 2 entries
And again in 2004, Uruguay produced Gardel stamps, with Uruguay calling him the "immortal Tacuaremboan" in the 2004 version
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Released album “La voz de Carlos Gardel”.
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1967· 2 entries
A controversial theory was published by Uruguayan writer Erasmo Silva Cabrera, asserting that Gardel was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay
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Writer Erasmo Silva Cabrera started the modern dispute over Gardel's birthplace when he published arguments describing Gardel as having been born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay
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1957· 1 entry
Released album “Selección nº 4”.
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1935· 1 entry
Died 1935-06-24.
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1931· 2 entries
Gardel wrote in a witnessed document, "I am French, born in Toulouse, 11 December 1890, son of Berthe Gardes
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“I am French, born in Toulouse, 11 December 1890, son of Berthe Gardes.”
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1917· 1 entry
With his rendition of Pascual Contursi and Samuel Castriota's Mi noche triste
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1890· 3 entries
Born 1890-12-11.
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Was the most widely accepted version for many years
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And how he laid a false trail about his birthplace beginning in 1920, when he was almost 30
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1887· 1 entry
The son of influential Uruguayan landowner Carlos Escayola and Escayola's sister-in-law, 13-year-old Maria Lelia Oliva
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