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Browse piano sheets by Carlos Gardel on Zen Virtual Piano. Carlos Gardel was an Argentine singer and actor, celebrated throughout Latin America for his espousal of tango music, born on 11 December 1890 and dead on 24 June 1935 in Medellín, Colombia. He was certainly in Buenos Aires by the age of six, and his first formal acting roles were at the Nacional Corrientes Theatre, where the theatre also named Don José Razzano, with whom Gardel formed a duo for many years. A duo that lasted for many years can be read as a bond built on sharing the stage over a long stretch of time. Gardel and Razzano played in various theatre companies, touring Argentina, other Latin American countries and Spain. Gardel’s huge popularity as an interpreter of the melancholy ballads of the tango was confirmed in the 1920s and ’30s in nightclubs and motion pictures. Theatre stages, nightclubs and film screens give the image of a performer whose voice was meant for several kinds of rooms. His history includes two important duos: the early one with the singer José Razzano and the creative pair he formed in his last years with the poet, journalist and playwright Alfredo Le Pera. Le Pera sometimes had to write a dozen sets of lyrics before Gardel gave his approval, and the same happened with changes in the music up to the last moment. A lyricist who sometimes wrote a dozen sets of lyrics before the singer agreed can be read as a partnership in which the singer’s approval was the final test. “Por una cabeza” is a tango song composed by Gardel with lyrics by Le Pera for the 1935 film Tango Bar, and Gardel recorded it on 19 March 1935. “El día que me quieras,” with music by Gardel and lyrics by Le Pera, was originally featured in the 1935 film of the same name, sung by Gardel himself, and became a heavily recorded tango standard, even among artists outside the realm of tango. A song that artists far from tango kept recording shows how widely one melody can travel. Songs tied to films, and films tied to songs, make his last years a working loop between screen and record.
Browse piano sheets by Carlos Gardel on Zen Virtual Piano.
Carlos Gardel was an Argentine singer and actor, celebrated throughout Latin America for his espousal of tango music, born on 11 December 1890 and dead on 24 June 1935 in Medellín, Colombia. He was certainly in Buenos Aires by the age of six, and his first formal acting roles were at the Nacional Corrientes Theatre, where the theatre also named Don José Razzano, with whom Gardel formed a duo for many years. A duo that lasted for many years can be read as a bond built on sharing the stage over a long stretch of time.
Gardel and Razzano played in various theatre companies, touring Argentina, other Latin American countries and Spain. Gardel’s huge popularity as an interpreter of the melancholy ballads of the tango was confirmed in the 1920s and ’30s in nightclubs and motion pictures. Theatre stages, nightclubs and film screens give the image of a performer whose voice was meant for several kinds of rooms.
His history includes two important duos: the early one with the singer José Razzano and the creative pair he formed in his last years with the poet, journalist and playwright Alfredo Le Pera. Le Pera sometimes had to write a dozen sets of lyrics before Gardel gave his approval, and the same happened with changes in the music up to the last moment. A lyricist who sometimes wrote a dozen sets of lyrics before the singer agreed can be read as a partnership in which the singer’s approval was the final test.
“Por una cabeza” is a tango song composed by Gardel with lyrics by Le Pera for the 1935 film Tango Bar, and Gardel recorded it on 19 March 1935. “El día que me quieras,” with music by Gardel and lyrics by Le Pera, was originally featured in the 1935 film of the same name, sung by Gardel himself, and became a heavily recorded tango standard, even among artists outside the realm of tango. A song that artists far from tango kept recording shows how widely one melody can travel. Songs tied to films, and films tied to songs, make his last years a working loop between screen and record.
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Carlos Gardel composed it, with lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera, for the 1935 film Tango Bar; Gardel recorded it on 19 March 1935.
The singer José Razzano, with whom he formed a duo for many years, and the poet, journalist and playwright Alfredo Le Pera, with whom he formed a creative pair in his last years.
An Argentine tango with music by Gardel and lyrics by Le Pera, originally featured in the 1935 film of the same name and sung by Gardel himself; it became a heavily recorded tango standard.