From a young age, Ángela Aguilar always knew that her purpose was to keep traditional música Mexicana alive. It’s a family affair, really: Her grandfather was ranchera hero Antonio Aguilar and her father is the renowned singer Pepe Aguilar.
The 20-year-old singer continues to invigorate traditional sounds as she releases her latest album, Bolero, on Friday. The nine-track project captures the singer giving new life to romantic classics, backed by castanets and the soothing plucks of guitar, on tracks like “Piensa En Mi,” “Somos Novios,” and “Luna Lunera.”
With the album,...
The 20-year-old singer continues to invigorate traditional sounds as she releases her latest album, Bolero, on Friday. The nine-track project captures the singer giving new life to romantic classics, backed by castanets and the soothing plucks of guitar, on tracks like “Piensa En Mi,” “Somos Novios,” and “Luna Lunera.”
With the album,...
- 1/31/2024
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Pepe Aguilar knows a thing or two about continuing a legacy. The son of the greatest ranchera singer of all time, Antonio Aguilar, and a star of the golden age of Mexican cinema, Flor Silvestre, Pepe built a career by successfully carrying the heavy, storied history of the Aguilar last name and turning it into a now-growing dynasty.
With songs like “Por Mujeres Como Tú” and “Directo Al Corazón,” Pepe married the traditionalism of rancheras with the pop modernity of the mid-2000s to build a career in his own right.
With songs like “Por Mujeres Como Tú” and “Directo Al Corazón,” Pepe married the traditionalism of rancheras with the pop modernity of the mid-2000s to build a career in his own right.
- 8/11/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Armando Manzanero, the celebrated Mexican singer-songwriter whose compositions include the standard “It’s Impossible,” died Monday of complications due to Covid-19. He was 85.
According to Mexico’s El Universal, Manzanero tested positive for the coronavirus on December 17 and was intubated five days later. He was stable until Sunday night.
Manzanero is known for composing hundreds of songs, many of which were translated to English including “Somos Novios,” which was recorded in English as “It’s Impossible” by Perry Como and Elvis Presley. He also wrote the classics “Adoro” and “Esta tarde vi llover” and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in 2014. Most recently, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Harvey Mason Jr., chair & interim president/CEO of the Recording Academy, and Gabriel Abaroa Jr. president and CEO of The Latin Recording Academy, released a statement upon hearing the...
According to Mexico’s El Universal, Manzanero tested positive for the coronavirus on December 17 and was intubated five days later. He was stable until Sunday night.
Manzanero is known for composing hundreds of songs, many of which were translated to English including “Somos Novios,” which was recorded in English as “It’s Impossible” by Perry Como and Elvis Presley. He also wrote the classics “Adoro” and “Esta tarde vi llover” and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in 2014. Most recently, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Harvey Mason Jr., chair & interim president/CEO of the Recording Academy, and Gabriel Abaroa Jr. president and CEO of The Latin Recording Academy, released a statement upon hearing the...
- 12/28/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Flor Silvestre, one of Mexico’s most popular singers who also starred in scores of films, died today at 90. Televisa’s Espectáculos said she died surrounded by her family — including her son, singer and actor Pepe Aguilar — at Rancho el Soyate, the Zacatecas ranch she once shared with her late husband, the singer and actor Antonio Aguilar.
Emerging as a radio star in her late teens, Silvestre inked a recording deal with Columbia Records in 1950 and soon began to score Spanish-language hits. That same year, she appeared in her first two movies — Primero soy Mexicano and Te besaré en la boca — and would go on to appear in nearly 70 more during the next four decades.
She moved to the Musart Records label in 1957 and continued to rack up hit songs — including one of her signature canciones “Mi destino fue quererte” (My Destiny Was to Love You) in 1964 — all while making...
Emerging as a radio star in her late teens, Silvestre inked a recording deal with Columbia Records in 1950 and soon began to score Spanish-language hits. That same year, she appeared in her first two movies — Primero soy Mexicano and Te besaré en la boca — and would go on to appear in nearly 70 more during the next four decades.
She moved to the Musart Records label in 1957 and continued to rack up hit songs — including one of her signature canciones “Mi destino fue quererte” (My Destiny Was to Love You) in 1964 — all while making...
- 11/26/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
CineMovie caught up with Mexican crooner Pepe Aguilar at the Los Angeles premiere of Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids: All The Time In The World 4D. Pepe revealed he is a big fan of Robert and wouldn't mind being in one of his films.
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The popular rancheras, mariachi and pop music singer-songwriter attended the red carpet premiere with his family Saturday and stopped by to talk to CineMovie about his love of movies. The son of Mexican actor/singer Antonio Aguilar ("El Charro De Mexico") and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre, Pepe named Robert Rodriguez as one of his favorite directors along with Martin Scorcese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola.
Pepe named Sin City as a favorite Robert Rodriguez film, and when CineMovie told him Robert had a sequel in the works, the famous singer hoped to hear from Robert about
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Watch video below.
The popular rancheras, mariachi and pop music singer-songwriter attended the red carpet premiere with his family Saturday and stopped by to talk to CineMovie about his love of movies. The son of Mexican actor/singer Antonio Aguilar ("El Charro De Mexico") and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre, Pepe named Robert Rodriguez as one of his favorite directors along with Martin Scorcese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola.
Pepe named Sin City as a favorite Robert Rodriguez film, and when CineMovie told him Robert had a sequel in the works, the famous singer hoped to hear from Robert about
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- 8/4/2011
- CineMovie
CineMovie caught up with Mexican crooner Pepe Aguilar at the Los Angeles premiere of Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids: All The Time In The World 4D. Pepe revealed he is a big fan of Robert and wouldn't mind being in one of his films.
Watch video below.
The popular rancheras, mariachi and pop music singer-songwriter attended the red carpet premiere with his family Saturday and stopped by to talk to CineMovie about his love of movies. The son of Mexican actor/singer Antonio Aguilar ("El Charro De Mexico") and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre, Pepe named Robert Rodriguez as one of his favorite directors along with Martin Scorcese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola.
Pepe named Sin City as a favorite Robert Rodriguez film, and when CineMovie told him Robert had a sequel in the works, the famous singer hoped to hear from Robert about
Read more...
Watch video below.
The popular rancheras, mariachi and pop music singer-songwriter attended the red carpet premiere with his family Saturday and stopped by to talk to CineMovie about his love of movies. The son of Mexican actor/singer Antonio Aguilar ("El Charro De Mexico") and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre, Pepe named Robert Rodriguez as one of his favorite directors along with Martin Scorcese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola.
Pepe named Sin City as a favorite Robert Rodriguez film, and when CineMovie told him Robert had a sequel in the works, the famous singer hoped to hear from Robert about
Read more...
- 8/4/2011
- CineMovie
There is no thrill to compare with seeing a classic movie in a great movie theater. For twenty-four years, the Los Angeles Conservancy has hosted a month-long series called Last Remaining Seats, showing vintage films in the city’s great movie palaces, most of which are located on Broadway downtown. This year’s wide-ranging bill of fare included Strangers on a Train, American Graffiti, The Graduate, the 1943 Mexican classic Flor Silvestre, and the silent version of Peter Pan. (The evening I’m really sorry I missed featured How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with its stars Robert Morse and Michele…...
- 6/14/2010
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
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