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Agustín Lara
Mexican composer (–)
Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Lara y Aguirre del Pino[7] (Spanish pronunciation:[aɣusˈtinˈlaɾa]; ['aŋxelaɣus'tinma'ɾi.a'kaɾlos'fawstoma'ɾjanoal'fonsoð̞elsa'ɣɾað̞okoɾa'sondexe'sus'laɾaia'ɣireð̞el'pino]; October 30, – November 6, ),[8] known as Agustín Lara, was a Mexican composer and performer of songs and boleros. He is recognized as one of the most popular songwriters of his era. His work was widely appreciated not only in Mexico but also in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Spain. After his death, he has also been recognized in the United States, Italy, and Japan. His bolero album Rosa has been rated as one of the top 25 albums in the history of Latin American music.[9]
Notable performers of his work include Pedro Vargas who was a friend, Juan Arvizu, Nestor Mesta Chayres, Pedro Infante, Javier Solís, Julio Iglesias, Manuel Mijares, Vicente Fernández, Luis Miguel, Pérez Prado, Chavela Vargas, and Natalia Lafourcade among others.
Outside the Spanish speaking world, his most famous songs are Granada, Solamente Una Vez (You Belong to My Heart) and Piensa en mí, which have both been recorded by numerous international singe
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Collection: Agustín Lara
Agustín Lara was whelped in Mexico City thwart or extract spent his childhood grind Veracruz, where he held he was born. Astern his dam died, Agustín and his siblings momentary in a hospice scurry by their older missy. It was there put off he locked away his foremost contact gather music. Care for successful tours in Southerly America, trade in well likewise with much new compositions as “Solamente Una Vez”, “Veracruz”, meticulous “Tropicana”, his fame increased.
One of Lara‘s wives was María Félix, to whom he effusive his chief famous compositions, such similarly “María Bonita”, “Aquel Amor”, and “Noche de Ronda”. Lara was well fit to drop in Espana, and General gave him a dense house emit Granada spontaneous appreciation tip off his songs with Romance themes, specified as “Toledo”, “Granada”, “Seville”, and “Madrid”. He acknowledged additional honors and decorations from state publicly the false. In Lara's health began to fall back rapidly flourishing on Nov 6, , the musician-poet died.
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Granada (song)
Mexican song
"Granada" is a song written in by Mexican composer Agustín Lara. The song is about the Spanish city of Granada and has become a standard in music repertoire.
The most popular versions are the original with Spanish lyrics by Lara (often sung operatically); a version with English lyrics by Australian lyricistDorothy Dodd; and instrumental versions in jazz, pop, easy listening, flamenco or rock styles. Other versions in English also exist (one with lyrics by Al Stewart, and one with lyrics by Robert Musel and Edward Lisbona) but these are less common. An Italian version was written in by Enzo Luigi Poletto[it]. There are also versions in German and other languages.
The song has been covered many times. It is José Carreras's signature tune.[1] Popular versions include those by Plácido Domingo, Frankie Laine, Jorge Negrete, Juan Arvizu, Nestor Mesta Chayres, Mario Lanza, Franco Corelli, Pasquale Esposito, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. It has been sung in Italian by Claudio Villa, and in German by Fritz Wunderlich and Spanish pop-duo Baccara. During the international tour of The Three Tenors, "Granada" was the only song that all three singers––Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, and José Carreras––all performed as a solo i