The Crooner at the Sombreros and Romances, who had been hospitalized since a fall in August, turned off, Sunday, at the age of 81. About 7,000 admirers parade in front of its coffin.
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Vicente Fernandez is dead, and it’s a whole country that is mourning. Mexico cries his king of popular song, “Mariachi” orchestras, deceased, Sunday, December 12, the day of the pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Patrone’s Holy.
The Crooner at the Sombreros and Romances who have rocked festive evenings and generations of broken hearts from Mexico to Argentina died at 81 in a Guadalajara hospital, the second largest city in the country, did Knowing your family on Instagram.
The absolute master of the “Rancheras”, songs on the torments of love with several guitars and inevitable trumpets, was hospitalized since a fall in early August in his ranch near Guadalajara, capital of the state of Jalisco, cradle of The tequila and fief of the most dangerous drug cartel active.
A kidnapped son
Before the funeral – that must take place in private Monday – the family opened the singer’s ranch so that the public could pay tribute. About 7,000 admirers marched in front of his coffin, on which his sombrero rested.
The sentimental interpreter and macho assumed to Por Tu Maldito Amor (for your cursed love) and the very sweet-sweetness that you Vaya Bonito (I wish you the best) has sold 70 million records in fifty years of A career crowned by three grammys and nine Latin Grammys.
Icon of a Mexico All in shadows and lights, refined and violent, “search” knew the drama of his life during a tour in 1998 when his son Vicente Fernandez Jr was removed for 121 days with a $ 10 million ransom request with a criminal band that cut two fingers.
One of his other sons would have been the friend of a Capo of the Cartel de Sinaloa, according to the journalist Argentina Olga Wornat who has just published an unauthorized biography of the family, El Ultimo Rey (the last king).
Even Joe Biden tweeted
With his boots, his favorites, his thick eyebrows and his mustache, the “Sinatra of Music Ranchera” – as the American newspaper nicknamed The Houston Chronicle in 1991 – did not have a fierce hatred at one of his Rivals deceased in 2016, Juan Gabriel, “Because he was gay and” search “was a man from another era,” adds Olga Wornat.
Very symbolically, Fernandez draws its reverence the day of tens of thousands of pilgrims converge towards the sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico, a source of inspiration from Mariachis orchestras. And the day when a Guadalajara football club, Atlas, won his first champion title for 70 years. A tribute was rendered by the crowd who observed a minute of silence and sung Volver, Volver, another success of the singer.
Among other multiple reactions, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador praised a “music symbol ransache of our time, known and recognized in Mexico and abroad.” The Colombian head of state Ivan Duque paid tribute to “a true genius of folklore and the music of our region” and the American president Joe Biden greeted an “icon”: “The music of Vicente Fernandez has created memories for Millions of people “, Has he tweeted .