Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino (8 April 1908 - 24 December 1999) was a Mexican singer and actor. He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. In a career that spanned over seven decades, Guízar trained early as a opera singer and travelled to New York in 1929 to record the songs of
Agustín Lara. He also performed both operatic and Mexican popular songs at
Carnegie Hall, but he succeeded with his arrangements of popular Mexican and Spanish melodies such as Cielito Lindo, La Cucaracha, Granada, and You Belong to My Heart (English version of Solamente una Vez). In 1936, his song Allá…
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