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Autograph by Carlos Gardel

Autograph by Carlos Gardel

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The Voice of Tango, Carlos Gardel, signs an autograph for a fan.

  • Carlos Gardel's autograph.
  • 8.5 cm x 13.4 cm.
  • No date indicated, likely in the United States.
  • In perfect condition.
  • Unique item.

Anyone who has walked through the cities on the coast of the Rio de la Plata, in southern America, knows that airs of melancholy waft through these parts of the world, not as sadness, but as an indecipherable nostalgic beauty. Tango is the main symbol of this feeling. It's impossible to listen to a tango without feeling some longing. For what? Everyone will say. What is not a subjective interpretation is the name of the main exponent of this musical genre: Carlos Gardel, an elegant and vain man, who remained in the popular imagination with his suit and hat, as shown in the rare autographed photograph we recently found. However, the origin of this great star is uncertain, and, despite the most accepted version now being that he was born in France, the singer's past is full of mysteries and adventures.

Although Buenos Aires was Gardel's home, there are three main hypotheses for his birth, all of which were at some point told by the singer himself. In 1904, after running away from home at the age of 14, he was detained by a police officer to whom he claimed he had been born in France, in Toulouse, in 1890. In 1915, another version emerged, in which Gardel supposedly came into the world in the city of La Plata, south of the Argentine capital. Years later, in 1923, Gardel had his passport drawn up, declaring himself born in Uruguay, in 1887. In each of these instances, the King of Tango registered with slightly different spellings: Gardes, Gardez, and finally, Gardel.

But why would the singer have given such different information about his identity? It seems that Gardel wanted to distance himself from some unorthodox deeds committed in his past. A famous Argentine newspaper gained access to the singer's criminal record, and some revelations came to light that might explain his reasons.

It seems that, before international fame, Gardel had a past as a swindler. A police document from 1915 presents him as "el pibe Carlitos," the boy Carlitos, who participated in the so-called "uncle's fraud," a scam that consisted of approaching a stranger in a bar, claiming to have a rich uncle who left an inheritance but in a distant city. Soon, the man was asked for money to go to the location to rescue the treasure, with the promise of a large compensation. Needless to say, the said nephew escaped with the money without ever sending news again, right? But would Gardel really have participated in this type of scheme?

It is impossible to ascertain the origins or past of Carlos Gardel before his fame, but it is a fact that his voice marked human history, becoming part of UNESCO's Memory of the World program. Gardel made 957 recordings, covering 792 different themes. In addition to music, he was also a film star, recording in both France and the United States. Today, Gardel is a symbol, more than Argentine, Latin American. Unfortunately, the singer died young, before the age of fifty, in a plane crash in Colombia. Still, he goes down in history not as a swindler, but as the man who set the vibration of a continent to music.

Carlos Gardel's autographs on photographs, in excellent condition, are rare.

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