Carlos Gardel, "El Zorzal Criollo", has a special place in the heart of all Latinamericans. Carlitos, as he is known, was the king of Tango and the first Superstar. He was the voice that made Tango take the world by storm in the 1920's. Without Gardel, Valentino would have never danced the Tango in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalipse", and perhaps would have never had been a star. Charlie Chaplin include the Tango in 'Modern Times" and "City Lights". Gardel's voice, coupled with his true Buenos Aires accent, became the tango, the voice of "el arrabal" (or neighborhood), and of the Buenos Aires working class, with its nostalgic lament, its love for the past "que nunca volvera" (never to return), its common man romance, and its somewhat low life, reminder of tango bordello origins. After almost 75 years of Gardel tragic death in an airplane accident (1935), his songs and his voice remain as fresh and poular as they were just before his death. No wonder then that the common saying in Buenos Aires is "Carlitos cada dia canta mejor" (Carlitos sings every day sings better).

Volver. Gardel, in this famos tango, sing of how 20 years means nothing and that everyone has to return to revisit the past.