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In 1965 he moved to Mexico City to seek a future in the world of music. That year, his 47-year-old mother died of cancer. On 27 December 1963 he married Maria del Refugio Abarca Villaseñor., with whom he had his first son, Vicente, who was born premature and had to be incubated at home because Fernández could not pay the hospital. At the age of 21 he appeared on the television show La calandria musical. It was then when, in Jalisco, he participated in the radio program Amanecer Tapatío, and began to be recognized locally. At the age of 14 he started singing in restaurants and at weddings, joining several mariachi groups such as Mariachi Amanecer de Pepe Mendoza and Mariachi de José Luis Aguilar. During his working day he sang, so many construction companies asked to have him as a worker.Īfter these jobs he was hired to work as a cashier in his uncle's restaurant. Īfter Fernández finished elementary school, with his family finding it difficult to support themselves by selling milk from the cows on his family's ranch, he and his family moved to Tijuana, where a teenage Fernández worked as a bricklayer, painter, and cabinetmaker. Thereafter he had a taste for music and at the age of 8 he was given a guitar, which he learned to play at the same time he began to study folk music. When he was between 6 and 7 years old, he used to go with his mother to see movies starring Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete and, as he himself once recalled, he told his mother that "when I grow up I'm going to be like them".
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Vicente Fernández was born on 17 February 1940 in the village of Huentitán El Alto, Jalisco, the son of a rancher and a housewife. 2.5 Vicente Fernández's career as an actor.2.2 1990s: Fernández at his musical peak.2.1 1970s and 1980s: Volver volver and Fernández's success.