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José Alfredo Jiménez was the undisputed ruler of ranchera, the melodramatic and sentimental singing design that started in the metropolitan areas of Mexico through the 1950s and ’60s. Jiménez started his musical profession at age ten when his parents’ loss of life led to his leaving college and beginning a …

The very first nationally famous ranchera singer, Jorge Negrete appeared in three dozen films and recorded almost 200 songs through the 1930s, ’40s, and early ’50s, before dying in the height of his career. Given birth to into a armed service family (his dad gained the rank of lieutenant colonel …