Gilda was an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 singer and songwriter.

Gilda was very popular in her country and in all of South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

 where she received several gold and platinum records. Among her most known songs are Fuiste, No me arrepiento de este amor ^video and No es mi despedida with the first one being known in Europe too.

She died on 7 September 1996 in a car accident at Ceibas, Entre Ríos Province

Entre Ríos Province

Entre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....

, Argentina.

Some of her songs were reedited after her death, most notably Attaque 77

Attaque 77

Attaque 77 is an Argentine rock group formed in 1987.-History:Formed in 1987 as a group of friends who got together to play their favorite songs, most of them by The Ramones, their favorite band and the one that influenced them the most...

's version of No me arrepiento... ^video