Mariachi Legend Vicente Fernández Dies at 81, Months After Suffering Fall
Fernández died Sunday after being in "serious but stable" condition upon suffering a fall on his ranch in August
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December
12, 2021
Mariachi Legend Vicente Fernández Dies at 81, Months After Suffering Fall
Fernández died Sunday after being in "serious but stable" condition upon suffering a fall on his ranch in August
Vicente Fernández will be remembered "Para Siempre."
On
Sunday, the Grammy-winning mariachi legend died, four months after suffering
from a fall that had him on a ventilator in the ICU, according
to a post on his Instagram page.
"It
was an honor and a great pride to share with everyone his great musical career.
He gave everything to his audience," read the post, translated to English.
"Thank
you for continuing to applaud, thank you for continuing to sing," the post
concluded.
On
Aug. 10, the ranchero star's family shared that he was in "serious but
stable" and on a ventilator following a fall at his Guadalajara ranch.
"Love you dad," his son and fellow singer Alejandro Fernández wrote on Instagram following his health update.
Fernández — who was known as El
Ídolo de México or the Mexican Idol —was born and raised in
Guadalajara, Jalisco where he began his career as a musician as a street
performer. Signed to Mexico's CBS Records in 1966, he soon began his
decades-long career in both music and acting.
In
1971, he released his first film Tacos
al carbón but also starred in films such as La Ley del Monte and Por Tu Maldito Amor. His films were always
laced with his mariachi songs and covers of old rancheras by artists such as
José Alfredo Jiménez and Javier Solís.
Some of his most iconic songs include "Por Tu Maldito
Amor," "Volver Volver," "Acá Entre Nos," "Hermoso
Cariño," "Mujeres Divinas" and covers such as "El Rey"
and "Camino de Guanajuato."
Despite
his age, his new tracks continued to have success in both the U.S. and Mexico.
Songs such as "La Derrota," "Estos Celos" and "Un
Millón de Primaveras," which were released on his 2007 album Vicente Fernández Para Siempre, became hits
late in his career. Many of his songs were featured as theme songs for
telenovelas.
Throughout
his life, Fernández won four Grammys, eight Latin Grammys and is responsible
for writing some of the genre's biggest hits.
Fernández suffered a health scare in 2019 when he had a lump in his
liver. At the time he received backlash after refusing a liver transplant
saying he was concerned the donor could have been an "addict" or a
"homosexual" person.
"They
wanted to give me some other f—er's liver, and I told them 'I'm not going
to sleep with my wife with another man's liver,'" Fernández said at
the time on a Mexican TV program De Primera Mano. "I don't even know if he was
homosexual or a drug addict."
Earlier this year, Fernandez was accused of sexual abuse
by singer Lupita Castro and photos surfaced of him touching
women inappropriately. He denied the accusations.
Fernández is survived by his children Alejandro, Vicente, Gerardo and Alejandra.
FERNANDEZ,
Vicente (Vicente
Fernandez Gomez)
Born:
2/17/1940,
Huentitan el Alto, Jalisco, Mexico
Died: 12/12/2021,
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Vicente
Fernandez’s westerns –actor:
Jalisco
nunca pierda – 1974 (Pancho
Zamorano)
Juan
Armenta, el repatriado – 1976 (Juan Armenta/Fernando Garza)
El
arracadas 1978 (Mariano Landeros ‘Arracadas’)
Un
hombre llamado edl diablo – 1983 (Irenio Duran)
A
Real Man – 1983 (Joaquin Barrera)
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