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25/06/2022 17:12 (UTC)

URUGUAY GARDEL

Isabel del Valle, Carlos Gardel's "eternal bride"

Pando (Uruguay), Jun 26 (EFE), (Camera: Santiago Carbone) - "Living with my soul clinging to a sweet memory that I cry again" says one of the verses of "Volver", one of the tangos that consecrated Carlos Gardel as an undisputed figure of Rio de la Plata music. That was also how Isabel del Valle, the "eternal girlfriend" of the "Morocho del Abasto" lived.

"Isabelita", as Gardel called her, was a 14-year-old girl when she met the 'Mago' who, at that time, the late 1920s, was at least 30 years old: an inconceivable story in today's world but which in the 1920s flourished in the streets of Buenos Aires, despite the initial reluctance of the teenager's family.

STATEMENTS BY ALFREDO MAZZEI, URUGUAYAN WRITER:

"The book is about the life of a woman, a wonderful woman who was Carlos Gardel's girlfriend for 14 years, the book is written from the present, the book narrates how the book was written, because her grandson Mario Fattori, who lived with her until she passed away and it is a token of affection and wanted to document how his grandmother had been."

STATEMENTS BY MARIO FATTORI, GRANDSON OF ISABEL DEL VALLE:

"I wanted to share it, someone had to know how my grandmother's shared life with Gardel was, then the idea of making the book came up, which is a very human portrait, very intimate and tells the life of my grandmother from before she met Gardel, when she met him and when he passed away how she continued her life".

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