Vicente Fernández, the iconic Mexican king of the country’s traditional ranchera music, has died at age 81
The president of Mexico’s senate offered that Mr. Fernández’s body lie in state at the Bellas Artes theater in Mexico City, but a private service is scheduled for Monday in Guadalajara.
Fans of Vicente Fernández sang his songs and held his picture and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe outside the hospital where he died.Mr. Fernández was born on Feb. 17, 1940 in Huentitán el Alto in Jalisco state, the son of rancher Ramón Fernández and Paula Gómez. His first recording break came in 1966, when the most popular Mexican ranchera singer of the time, Javier Solís, died at age 35. Record labels that had rejected Mr. Fernández began to call him.
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