Volver (song)

"Volver"
Sheet music of the tango Volver, 1961.
Song
Genre	Tango
Length	2:48
Songwriter(s)	Composer: Carlos Gardel Lyricist: Alfredo Le Pera

Volver is a tango song created in 1934 by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera. Gardel composed and performed the music, and Le Pera wrote the lyrics. This tango has been covered by multiple singers, including Luis Miguel, Julio Iglesias, Libertad Lamarque, Los Panchos, Elisa ^[1] and Andres Calamaro.

Also singers like Caetano Veloso, Concha Buika and Dulce Pontes performed it on stage.

The title of Pedro Almodóvar’s film Volver (2006) is inspired by this tango. ^[2] The song is also sung in one of the film’s scenes. ^[3]

Covers

• Richard Clayderman, instrumental version in his Tango Passion Album in 1996
• Luis Miguel, published in the disk Mis Romances of 2001.
• Estrella Morente, for the 2006 film Volver. ^[4]
• Il Divo, the vocal quartet of masculine singers; the Swiss tenor Urs Bühler, the Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, the American tenor David Miller and the singer French pop Sébastien Izambard, together with the Colombian producer Julio Reyes Copello, recorded the song for the album Amor & Pasión of Il Divo in 2015. ^[5]
• Rosalía, in her Los Ángeles Tour of 2018 and with Juanes in 2019.

References

1. "Tango Macondo: Musica di Paolo Fresu e voci di Malika Ayane, Tosca ed Elisa". 26 October 2021.
2. Rapetti, Alejandro (2022-07-11). ""Volver", la canción más nostálgica de todos los tiempos y el designio trágico que siempre la acompañará". LA NACION (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-07-15.
3. "La banda sonora de la filmografía de Pedro Almodóvar: las grandes canciones de sus mejores películas". EuropaFM (in Spanish). 2024-10-18. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
4. estrella-morente.es (ed.). "Estrella Morente". Archived from the original on 2019-11-11. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
5. sonymusic.es, ed. (30 September 2015). "El original y mejor grupo de música clásica crossover Il Divo lanzan su esperado nuevo álbum 'AMOR & PASION' a través de Syco Music".

External links

• Carlos Gardel - Volver (Lyric video) [HQ Audio] on YouTube. Duration 2m 51 s. Uploader SC Entertainment, 2015. Source: Carlos Gardel – El Album De Oro De Carlos Gardel at Discogs (list of releases)