By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone

He died in a plane crash 89 years ago Carlitos, the Creole Nightingale, the Dark-Haired Man from Abasto, the Magician, the King of Tango, the Mute, the Troesma. That is to say, Carlos Gardel. Because of the things that legends always carry, we know the exact day of his death, in the city of Medellín., But experts still debate when and where it was born. Two main possibilities are presented. Some point to December 11th between 1883 and 1887 as the starting date., in Tacuarembó (Uruguay). Others claim, agreeing that Gardel was born on December 11, that he was born a few years earlier, in 1890, in the French city of Toulouse, , being originally baptized Charles Romuald Gardes. On both sides of the ocean, they fight over the place of its first cradle, and that's an eternal argument we're not going to get into. Rather, we're going to lament its early passing, and, while we're at it, admit that Carlitos, despite the passage of time and his arrival at immortality, sings better every day. 

And today is a day that, due to birthdays and calendars, We could have paid tribute to Lionel Messi, Juan Román Riquelme and Ernesto Sábato, Celebrating the founding of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, lamenting the Soviet blockade of Berlin, or commemorating Simón Bolívar's victory over the royalist forces at the Battle of Carabobo. A hectic time, but our focus is music, and that's why We put together a playlist of 10 songs that pay tribute to Gardel, with different sounds and more contemporary genres, bringing the songs he performed with more current textures for new generations.

We took several liberties for this task: On the one hand, We repeat a song, perhaps the most famous in the honoree's repertoire: By a head. This composition, made in the company of Alfredo Le Pera, used in various versions in different films (remember Al Pacino's dance in Women's Perfume?), but this time in the hands of The Parrots, in a kind of Jamaican tango, a very Buenos Aires reggae, or however you want to describe it, and, on the other hand, the beautiful and moving recording of Mica Sotera, Acoustic guitar and vocals only. With these two tracks we open and close the list.

The playlist also includes a vaudeville interpretation of New York Blondes, in charge of Titae, classics like Return y Yira Yira with a rock and roll sound, courtesy of Lice y Andrés Calamaro, a deluxe archive featuring the British band The Shadows of Goodbye boys, the Venezuelan heroes of romantic pop The Earthlings playing Downhill, the beloved Maria Bethania singing live The day you love me, the tango/candombe mix of Rubén Rada of I take and I oblige And, since punk couldn't be missing, from Colombia we bring you The Holy Heretic, destroying in their own way Swap, original theme of Enrique Santos Discépolo, With which, of course, Carlitos traveled and thrilled the entire world.

Well, maestro, may he rest in peace, and don't get into trouble where you are., We will always remember him.