Google Doodle Honors Pedro Infante The Mexican Idol Today

Pedro Infante was a Mexican idol left recorded 351 songs and participated in some 60 films. They remember him for his charisma and simplicity.

Infante was born on November 18, 1917 in the city of Mazatlan and early showed a vocation for music. He learned to play guitar, piano, violin and drums in a "natural" way, proving that he had a "gift", Sergio Solís, producer at Warner Music Mexico, told EFE news agency.

The great Mexican idol Pedro Infante would be 100 years old today. He recorded 351 songs - from genres such as boleros, rancheras, corridos and huapangos - and he participated in some 60 films from the "golden era" of his country's cinema. But he is remembered, above all, for his charisma and his simplicity. These qualities are more than enough for Google to join the anniversary and dedicate their doodle today.

"Obviously, people did not want to see him playing behind the drums, people wanted to see him in front, with the microphone singing, because he had a physical presence that they liked and they too," Solis continued with a smile.

The voice of Infante, who did not reach high records, interpreted genres such as rancheras, ballads, waltz and huapangos. Some of the themes for which he is remembered are One Hundred Years, Dear Dove, My Sweetheart and Letters to Eufemia.

It is known that Infante had an amazing facility to learn the songs and record them in an agile way, although it was not like that in the first audition he made for a movie, when he was almost overcome by panic. But those initial fears did not last and Infante participated in some 60 films, including Los tres García, Nosotros los pobres and Pepe el Toro.

He was known for his charisma, which continues to trap people many decades after his death on April 15, 1957, when he was the victim of a plane crash. I was only 39 years old.

When he asks why Mexicans are still such a close figure, the explanations coincide in pointing out the personality of the idol. Eurídice Cervantes, daughter of the composer Alberto Cervantes - who knew Infante from a young age - defends the singer and actor as a simple person. In addition, he helped anyone who approached him, with work or money, but "he was not proclaiming it," he says. "It is very difficult for you to find an artist today who has all these qualities: simple, honest, humble, supportive," he says.

Much talked about the alleged rivalry of Infante with Jorge Negrete, another of the idols of the so-called "golden age" of Mexican cinema and who coincided in the movie Two types of care, in which the two are enzarzan in a remembered duel of couplets. Negrete's voice "was much more important than Pedro Infante's, but Pedro Infante's emotion was unique", reflects the tenor Fernando de la Mora.

To commemorate it, the Pedro Infante Museum in Guamúchil will be inaugurated, which will have objects that belonged to the artist, while in the capital of the country the exhibition "Por siempre, Pedro Infante" will be presented at the Bellas Artes subway station, and a mass will be celebrated in the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

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