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Armando Manzanero
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Mexican musician, composer pianist (1935–2020)
OverviewAI-generated
Armando Manzanero was a Mexican person whose work period began in 1950 and ended in 2020. He was born in 1935 and died in 2020. His musical style is associated with the tags bolero, mexico, armando manzanero, boleros, and latin.
He is the author of works including Con la música por dentro and Relatos de mi infancia. Records indicate he has five works listed in Crossref and two works in Open Library. His music has a playcount of 710400 and 90715 listeners on Last.fm. Additionally, he is referenced by 599 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- Armando Manzanero Canché , ( 1934-12-07 ) 7 December 1934, Ticul, Yucatán , Mexico
- Died
- 28 December 2020 (2020-12-28) (aged 86), Mexico City , Mexico
- Genres
- Boleros
- Occupations
- Composer pianist singer
- Instruments
- Piano voice
- Years active
- 1950–2020
- Label
- RCA Victor
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Armando
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Place of birth
- Mérida
- Place of death
- Mexico City
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- bolero
- Instrument
- accordion
- Record label
- RCA Victor
- Image
- Bustos de Armando Manzanero (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Armando Manzanero
- date of birth
- 1935-12-07
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- name in native language
- Armando Manzanero
- date of death
- 2020-12-28
- end of work period
- 2020-00-00
- birth name
- Armando Manzanero
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- COVID-19
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Encyclopedic overview
Armando Manzanero Canché (7 December 1934 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican musician, singer, composer, and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in the United States in 2014. He was the president of the Mexican Society of Authors and Composers (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México).
Early life
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