Fernando Fernández "El Crooner de México" (1916–1999) was a Mexican actor, singer and director. He was born on November 9, 1916, in

Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is ancho ...

, Mexico, and died in

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, Mexico, on November 24, 1999. Fernando was the son of Eloisa Reyes. He was brother of the film director

Emilio Fernández Emilio "El Indio" Fernández Romo (; 26 March 1904 – 6 October 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best kn ...

and actor Jaime Fernández and cousin to

. He was married to singer

Lupita Palomera María Guadalupe Palomera Chávez (12 December 1913 – 16 November 2008), known as Lupita Palomera, was a Mexican singer, one of the first and most notable bolero performers in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was known for some time as "La N ...

, who died in 2008. Fernando Fernández was known as "the Crooner of Mexico." Fernández first began singing at radio station XEH in Monterrey in 1933, then moved on to radio station

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located in Mexico City, Mexico, and then later at radio station

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also located in Mexico City. Fernández returned to Monterrey at his father's request and became a producer at radio station XET, then worked at radio station XET in Mexico City. Fernández then spent six months working for

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. Fernández appeared in movies such as ''

La feria de las flores ''La feria de las flores'' (English: "The flower fair") is a 1943 film directed by José Benavides, Jr. based on a story by Rafael M Saavedra. Starring Antonio Badú, María Luisa Zea and Stella Inda. Pedro Infante also appears in the film in o ...

(The flower fair)'', '' Enamorada (In love)'' and '' Ambiciosa ''(Ambitious)''. He made his directing debut with El fistol del diablo.

Selected filmography

*'' Love of The Street'' (1950) *'' If I Were Just Anyone'' (1950) * '' Arrabalera'' (1951) *'' Love for Sale'' (1951) * ''

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'' (1952) *'' When Children Sin'' (1952) *'' Magdalena'' (1955) *''

The Life of Agustín Lara ''The Life of Agustín Lara'' (Spanish: ''La vida de Agustín Lara'') is a 1959 Mexican musical film directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Germán Robles, Lorena Velázquez and Ofelia Montesco.Mora p.261 It is a biographical film about the l ...

'' (1959) *'' Northern Courier'' (1960)

References

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* 1916 births 1999 deaths Male actors from Monterrey 20th-century Mexican male actors Bolero singers 20th-century Mexican male singers {{Mexico-actor-stub