Trivia

Grew up in neighborhood of Abasto, Buenos Aires City.

Gardel died in an airplane crash at the height of his career, becoming an archetypal tragic hero mourned throughout Latin America.

Pictured on one of five nondenominated USA commemorative stamps honoring Latin Music Legends, issued on 16 March 2011; price on day of issue was 44¢. The other stamps honored Tito Puente, Carmen Miranda, Selena, and Celia Cruz.

Gardel not only sang but also knew how to elegantly dance to tango music, as can be briefly seen in his film "Tango Bar" from 1935.

António Lobo Antunes wrote a novel entitled The Death of Carlos Gardel, in which one of the characters believes that Gardel did not die in the plane crash in 1935.

Gardel died on 24 June 1935 in an airplane crash in Medellín, Colombia. Others who died included the pilot Ernesto Samper, lyricist Alfredo Le Pera, guitarists Guillermo Desiderio Barbieri and Ángel Domingo Riverol, several business associates, and other friends of the group.

Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos.

Gardel began his singing career in bars and at private parties.

He was notable for his baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics.

The fact that Carlos Gardel was killed before the premiere led to Paramount Pictures' decision to delete his two numbers in The Big Broadcast of 1936. Except in Uruguay and South American countries, where the film was issued as "Cazadores de Estrellas", and included these two songs, and in France, where it was called "Simphonie burlesque". Gardel had often worked at the Paramount Joinville studios, so a French commercial run could be contemplated. His two songs, "Apura delantero buey" and the tango "Amargura" , had been planned to have French versions, the second translated as "Chanson de bouvier".

In the 1944 movie "Together again" Irene Dunne sings in Spanish Gardel's tango "Adiós muchachos".