Proyecto Nodular

Universidad CNCI.
Modular Project
Conversation Club
Teacher: Lucia Camacho
Student: Ricardo Cedillo
Matricula: 01201426
Delivery date: 17-07-12

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Vicente Fernández

Vicente Fernández Gómez (born February 17, 1940) is a Mexican singer, producer and actor. Known as Chente or El rey de la canción ranchera (The king of ranchera music)throughout the Latin world, Vicente Fernández, who started his career singing for tips on the street, has become a cultural icon, recording more than 50 albums and contributing to many movies. He is the father of the popular singer Alejandro Fernández and Vicente Fernandez Jr.
Although less well known to English-speaking audiences, he has consistently filled stadiums and venues throughout his 35-plusyears of performing. His repertoire is pure ranchera, a style described by the Miami Herald as representing "the Mexico of old – a way of life romanticized by rural ranches, revolution, and philandering caballeros". He has sold over 65 million copies worldwide.
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Early life
Born in Huentitán El Alto, Jalisco, Mexico, Fernandez spent the early yearsof his life on his father Ramon's ranch on the outskirts of Guadalajara. As a little boy Vicente also worked at a young age for his uncle as a waiter, dish washer, cashier, and finally the manager of his uncle's restaurant. He was known to all the people as "Chente". fdd the idyllic ranchera lifestyle was instilled in him. His mother often took him to see the films of Pedro Infante. Fernandeztold of the significance of these films: "When I was 6 or 7, I would go see Pedro Infante's movies, and I would tell my mother, 'When I grow up, I'll be like him.'" By age eight he had taken up the guitar and was practicing his singing in the style of the ranchera singers he heard on the radio.
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Early musical influences
As a boy he sang at afestival in Arandas, Mexico where he won the contest. Later in his life at the age of twenty-one he competed in a contest where he won thirty-one pesos. But In 1954, Fernandez won an amateur contest sponsored by a Guadalajara television station. It was his first break into performing and he began to play at local clubs and gatherings. Around this time, however, Fernandez's father lost the ranch and thefamily moved into the city of Tijuana. Fernandez, who had dropped out of school in the fifth grade, began working odd jobs in the city such as janitor, dishwasher, and waiter – whatever he could find. All the while, he still held to his musical aspirations. He recently said he was originally from cocula, Jalisco.
In 1960 Fernandez devoted himself to music full time. He went back to Jalisco, wherehe performed as a busker while also appearing occasionally on the television show La Calandria musical. After a couple of years Fernandez tried his luck in Mexico City, where he found a job singing in a restaurant called El Amanacer Tapatio. When he wasn't working he was auditioning for recording companies, and constantly being turned down.
The time Fernandez spent in Mexico City wasdiscouraging. By 1963 he left to marry a former neighbor, Maria Del Refugio "Cuca" Abarca Villasenor. They now have three sons: Vicente, Jr., Gerardo and Alejandro. The oldest, Vicente, Jr., was born three months premature in 1963; Fernandez's mother died within a week of Vicente, Jr.'s birth.
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Breakthrough
In 1966, in the spring of that year, Javier Solís,Mexico's most popular traditional singer, died. CBS Mexico, now Sony Discos, offered Fernández a recording contract. He released his first recording, "Perdóname", with the company in 1966; Fernández still records for Sony Discos.
Fernández's career took off and has been nonstop ever since. He branched into acting with the film Tacos al Carbón, released in 1971. His first hit movie, for which he...