(ANSA) – MEXICO CITY, DEC 12 – Mexico is in mourning: its king of popular song and protagonist of the ‘mariachi’ orchestras, Vicente Fernandez, died yesterday on the day of the pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of the country.
The crooner with the sombrero and the romanticism that animated and shook the party evenings and generations of broken hearts from Mexico to Argentina died at the age of 81 in a hospital in Guadalajara, the second largest city in the country. The absolute master of ‘rancheras’, songs about the torments of love with multiple guitars and the inevitable trumpets, was hospitalized following a fall in early August in his ranch near Guadalajara, capital of the state of Jalisco, the cradle of tequila and stronghold of the most dangerous drug cartels.
Sentimental and macho interpreter of ‘Por tu maldito amor’ and ‘Que te vaya bonito’, El Ultimo rey (the last king) or the Sinatra of ranchera music – as the American newspaper The Houston Chronicle nicknamed him in 1991 – sold 70 millions of records in fifty years of career, crowned by three Grammys and nine ‘Latin Grammys’. (HANDLE).
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