Overview
- Researchers say a 1920 registration at the Uruguayan Consulate in Buenos Aires records Carlos Gardel’s birth on December 11, 1887, in Tacuarembó.
- The act was located in November 2025 by the Comisión Gardel Rioplatense and has a notarial certification, with an official peritaje by Uruguayan authorities still to come.
- According to the group, the entry functioned as a provisional birth record that enabled Gardel to obtain Argentine citizenship, and it was processed on October 8, 1920 before a consul and two witnesses.
- Investigator Gustavo Colman says Gardel personally initiated the registration using his stage name and characterizes the document as testimonial, juridical and legal.
- Argentine specialists question its conclusiveness and provenance, calling for ink, paper, filigree, handwriting and seal analyses while noting the long-standing Toulouse narrative supported by earlier French documentation and a passport issued in Nice.