Real name: Charles Romuald Gardès

Effective period / Period of releases: 1924 - 2006

Born : 11.12.1890 in Toulouse, France
Died : 24.6.1935 in Medellin, Colombia in a plane accident with his guitarists.

Carlos Gardel was a French-born Argentine Tango singer, composer and actor, considered the greatest icon of Tango.

Gardel had a grand total of 957 recordings of a 792 different songs. For his original compositions, he used to write the arrangements with a guitar and his friend Alfredo Le Pera wrote the lyrics