Trío Calaveras is a Mexican
guitar
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and vocal
trio, notable for its performances and recordings with the pop singer
Jorge Negrete
Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno (; 30 November 1911 – 5 December 1953) was a Mexican singer and actor. He specialized in the musical genre of ranchera. His posthumous album "Fiesta Mexicana Volumen II" has been ranked by critics at No. 163 on t ...
.
History
''Calaveras'', in Spanish, means "skulls".
The original members of the trio in the 1930s were
Guillermo Bermejo (died 2002), his brother
Miguel Bermejo (died 1996) and
Raúl Prado (died 1989).
Guillermo Bermejo left the Trio and moved to Argentina in 1945 his brother replaced him with
Pepe Saldivar (died 1975).
There are conflicting rumors that Prado had a brief marriage with Mexican actress
María Félix
María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (; 8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and ...
, but no concrete evidence has emerged that the marriage ever took place. Most of the rumors agree in claiming that Prado and Félix allegedly got married in 1943 after meeting on the set of ''
The Rock of Souls'' and separated two months after the wedding. Mexican writer
Enrique Serna interviewed the last survivor of the trio, Miguel Bermejo, who told him he was a witness to the wedding.
Prado's niece María Escalera also corroborated the marriage, saying that the marriage ended when
Agustín Lara
Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Lara y Aguirre del Pino (; ; October 30, 1897 – November 6, 1970), known as Agustín Lara, was a Mexican composer and performer of songs and boleros. He is rec ...
sent Félix a white piano as a gift, and "Raúl threw her out — with the piano. They later divorced. So, it appears, María Félix was my ''tía política''
unt-in-law" In his book about Félix ''María Félix: 47 pasos por el cine'',
Paco Ignacio Taibo I wrote about the marriage as factual, saying "While filming this movie, María would meet Raúl Prado, a member of the Los Calaveras trio. After a quick courtship they got married and shortly after they divorced. This is one of the most carefully protected chapters of the star's life. María's friends keep claiming that it was crazy." Prado's obituary on the Spanish newspaper ''
El País
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'' in April 1989 reported the marriage as factual,
as did some obituaries of Félix's, such as the one in Argentine newspaper ''
La Nación
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'', the latter which only cited "a biography" as a source.
It is known that Félix vehemently denied ever having married Prado. Serna, who also interviewed Félix, said "On our first meeting I asked her about her marriage to Raúl Prado (which she denied until the end)
..and she told me that if I was going to go on with those lies, we were not going to be able to work on the book."
References
General references
* Mexico y Su Música Roberto Villoro 1967
Inline citations
External links
Official web site
Mexican musical groups
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