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Vicente Fernandez Biography

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Real name Vicente Fernández Gómez
Nickname Chente
Nationality Mexico
Birth February 17, 1940 (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Death December 12, 2021
BIOGRAPHY
Vicente Fernández was born on February 17, 1940 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. At only 14 years old, she decided to participate in an amateur singing contest, where she won first place and with this she began her career as a singer in restaurants, weddings and family celebrations, while supporting the family agave letchuguillas business. In 1960, he participated in the television program La Calandria musical, which helped him gain some fame in his hometown. Later he moved to Mexico City where he started as a singer at the restaurant El Sunrise Tapatío. Four years later, he started some of Mexico’s best-known mariachi groups, such as Pepe Mendoza’s ‘Mariachi Amanecer’, and José Luis Aguilar’s Mariachi. Thanks to this he managed to reach radio stations and achieve local fame. But it was not until 1966, when he performed for the first time at the Teatro Blanquita and achieved a contract with CBS México (now Sony Music) where he recorded his first songs: “Perdóname”, “Cantina del barrio” and “Tu Camino y el mine”. . A series of albums with significant sales followed. He also began working with the television station Televisa, where he met Raúl Velasco. Performing live songs like “Your path and mine” and “Volver, Volver”. He also became the host of the program Noches Tapatias with Lucha Villa and Isabel Soto Lamarina, and the program Homenaje with Lola Beltrán, where they sometimes sang and interviewed characters from literature, art and sports, among others. He made his film debut in 1971, in Tacos al carbon. All this was followed by many more musical successes that led him to become one of the most important exponents of Mexican mariachi in the country. Since August 7, 2021, he was urgently admitted to the Country 2000 Hospital, due to an accidental fall that injured the nerves in his spine and he was admitted to the intensive care area, remaining hospitalized for more than 128 days. On December 12, he passed away at the age of 81.

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