Jevel Katz

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Jevel Katz (1902–1940) was born in Vilna and immigrated to Buenos Aires in 1930 where he became an immensely popular Jewish troubadour, famous for combining Yiddish and Spanish in humorous songs: tangos, rumbas, rancheras, and fox-trots.

He died at the peak of his career at age 38 in 1940. He was known posthumously as the "Jewish Gardel", named after the tango idol Carlos Gardel, who also died at the pinnacle of his career, in 1935.