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Carlos Gardel Recalled...

The Franco/Argentine tango King!

Carlos Gardel and Ignacio Corsini playing on Radio Nacional in 1930 

                 Yes, there's even a Subte or Metro Station in Buenos Aires honoring the Tango King

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Carlos Gardel Remembered

Carlos Gardel, the celebrated Franco/Argentine singer, songwriter, 

composer and actor is well remembered in his adopted country.

Though born in Toulouse, France in 1890, the young Carlos moved 

with his mother to Argentina in 1893.

After a hard life Carlos worked his way into the tough but promising

entrainment industry.  Before long he was a well known songwriter

and composer of Argentina's signature music the Tango.  

By 1917 he became a recording star in Argentina and subsequent years would 

take him throughout Latin America.  By 1928 he was a star visiting Paris,

Barcelona and later New York.  

He died in a tragic plane crash in 1935.  

Here in Buenos Aires the Gardel house is now a museum in the  Palermo

district. 

                                             

       He remains the most prominent singer./songwriter in the history of Tango. 

                                           

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                                                      ARGENTINA

Plaza Francia, the small but elegant park in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Situated in the chic Recoleta district, the Park was designed by French architect and planner Carlos Thays, and dates to 1910.   The Plaza is dominated by Emile Peynot's Monument of France to Argentina, which commemorates the South America's country's Centennial.  The female figures on the Monument  symbolize both Argentina and France, guided by the Angel of Glory.  

The monument which commemorates scenes from the history of both France and Argentina,  was gifted to the city of Buenos Aires by the French community.