Sacanell added that the series will be “original, premium and with an author’s touch.” With a script by Ortega and Rudolph Palacios, the story is inspired by the more than 500-page biography of the singer-songwriter written by Felipe Pigna.
However, the dangerous and carefree side of Gardel that fascinated many women came from another part of his life, which Ortega set out to explore in the first season of the series, which focuses on Gardel’s early days.
“He was inexplicably drawn to the outcasts. When he was a child he sang to the homeless, to the policemen when they arrested him and other prisoners in the Ushuaia prison,” Ortega said, noting that Gardel had a bullet lodged in his body from a shooting since he was a child.
“He was really discovered by the Abasto mafia who forced him to steal and then make him the official singer in their bars. His songs delighted thugs, cutthroats. There was something almost criminal, but also supernatural in his voice.”
“Luis will show the person below the public figure,” said Sacanell.
Born on December 11, 1890 in Toulouse, France, Gardel arrived in Buenos Aires at the age of 2 with his mother, who worked in El Abasto, an area of port workers and a prominent mafia of cutlers and smugglers. It was in that environment that the Criollo thrush grew up, who with his baritone voice popularized tango in the world.
“Por Una Cabeza”, a 1935 tango, appears in a famous scene in Martin Brest’s “Perfume de mujer” and in the opening scene of Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”, and is danced by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in “True Lies” by James Cameron.
Under the myth that “every day he sings better”, Gardel died on June 24, 1935 in Medellín, when the plane that brought him back to Argentina crashed shortly after taking off.
Source From: Ambito
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