Every June 24 is commemorated in our country the "National Singer's Day", proclaimed by law 23976 of 1991, whose celebration coincides with the anniversary of the death of the greatest exponent of the history of tango, Carlos Gardel.
His last tour
On March 28, 1935 he started, from New York, a Latin American tour that took him to Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Aruba, Curacao, Colombia, Panama, Cuba and Mexico. He was accompanied, among others, by Alfredo Le Pera (author of the lyrics of many of his tangos), his guitarists Guillermo Barbieri, José María Aguilar and Angel Domingo Riverol.
At 11 a.m. on Monday, June 24, 1935, Gardel and his traveling companions gathered in the rooms of the Hotel Granada, ready to leave for Cali on an express plane. It is said that Gardel was more cheerful, active and lively than the rest, because he was anxiously awaiting the end of that tour to return later to Argentina, where he planned to form a production company of his own. A crowd gathered at the doors of the hotel and photographers took what would be his last pictures.