Vincent Fernandez’s Legacy Lives Up On New Posthumous Album

The voice of Vicente Fernández ceased on December 12, 2021; but before leaving, he was in charge of leaving behind 200 recorded songs so that one day they could see the light again. Vincent Fernandez sings to the great Mexican composer This is part of that legacy. Two years after his death, his family released a new album this Thursday that includes 20 unpublished songs in which Chente (one of his nicknames) pays tribute to some of the country’s most important composers, such as Augustin Agustín Lara, José Alfredo Jimenez, Juan Gabriel or Armando Manzanello.

The iconic rancher declared this legacy years ago: “I recorded a lot of songs, they were preserved, and one day my company will release them.” This new album was specified and recorded by Fernandez in the studio. Featured results of the , which revived some great songs such as turn around you and only you

and at the edge of the palm grove.In it, he turns the song into something like this love for two, a song previously recorded by the singers, who they salvaged from their 1975 vinyl LP. Chente has performed the song live with his son Alejandro Fernández as part of the album Live: Last time together (2003).

The album took place last Wednesday at Chente’s home, the Los 3 Potrillos ranch. Attendees included María del Refugio (Kukita), the interpreter’s widow, who expressed sympathy for the premiere of the album, one of a small sample of the legacy. “I am very happy, very flattered to pay homage to Vicente: to release the music he left behind so they don’t forget it (…) to continue talking about him, even later, but through him He has left a lot of records, and he will record bit by bit,” commented.

Vicente Fernández died at the age of 81 from a respiratory illness, having spent more than five months in a hospital in Guadalajara. His family had said some time before his death that his health had deteriorated after a fall on a ranch caused a spinal cord injury. Fernandez was able to go home after surgery and care but was hospitalized again with pneumonia.

He was born in 1940 in the town of Huentitán El Alto (Jalisco). The son of a rancher and a housewife, he began singing in restaurants and at weddings in Guadalajara before moving to Mexico City. There, he managed to get some of his songs on the radio until 1965 when CBS Radio (now Sony Music) opened the door for him. His career continued to rise until he became a legend of Mexican culture: a career spanning more than 50 years, publishing more than 100 albums and massively selling millions of records. Among his hundreds of performances, one of the great songs is remembered, kingby José Alfredo Jimenez: But the day I die, I know you’ll cry; cry and cry.

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