Tito Guízar

From Wikipedia Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino April 8 1908 December 24 1999 was a Mexican singer and actor Born in Guadalajara Jalisco he performed under the name of Tito Guízar Together with Dolores del Río José Mojica Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez Guízar was among the few Mexican people who made history in the early years of Hollywood In a career that spanned over seven decades Guízar trained early as an opera singer and traveled to New York in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara In addition Guízar 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 en el Rancho Grande launched the singing charro in Mexico after appearing in the film of the same name succeeding as well in the United States He also starred in dozens of films including The Big Broadcast of 1938 1938 Tropic Holiday 1938 St Louis Blues 1939 The Llano Kid 1939 Brazil 1944 and The Gay Ranchero 1948 playing with such stars as Evelyn Keyes Dorothy Lamour Ray Milland Ann Miller Martha Raye Roy Rogers Mae West and Keenan Wynn In the 1990s he continued playing series parts in Mexican television