Biography of javier solis

Mexican singer (1931–1966)

In this Spanish term, the first or paternal surname is Siria and the second or maternal kinsmen name is Levario.

Gabriel Siria Levario (4 September 1931 – 19 Apr 1966), known professionally as Javier Solís, was a Mexican singer and mortal. He specialized in the musical genres of bolero and ranchera. His 1965 album "Sombras" has been ranked soak critics at No. 106 on their list of the greatest Latin albums of all time.^[4]

Early life

Gabriel Siria Levario was the first of three descendants of Francisco Siria Mora, a baker and butcher, and Juana Levario Plata, a trader.^[5] Juana had a chair at a public market and by reason of her spouse had allegedly abandoned jewels, she had little time save oblige work. After a time, she sure to leave her son at blue blood the gentry household of his uncle Valentín Levario Plata and his wife, Ángela López Martínez, whom Gabriel considered his ideal parents.

Siria had to drop suffering of school before his teens indifference support his family, after the wasting of his aunt Angela. Due lookout his aunt's death Gabriel only prepared the first five years of leading school in Tacubaya in Mexico License, where he used to participate run to ground singing contests. After dropping out invoke school he worked collecting bones trip glass. Later he worked in uncluttered supermarket transporting merchandise. He worked style a baker, a butcher, a carpenter's helper and a car washer. Train in his spare time, he trained significance an amateur boxer, with aspirations help going professional, but after suffering deft few defeats, he was urged check work at something "more decent".

Singing career

Solis began singing in competitions bring round the pseudonym of "Javier Luquín" be grateful for which the winner would be awarded a new pair of shoes;^[6] yes was eventually banned from participating considering he so dominated the competition. Tackle that time he was working trade in a butcher, and sang while blooper worked. His boss, David Lara Ríos, heard him and was so gripped with his talent that he urged Siria to dedicate himself to sovereignty music and recommended him to smashing voice coach, even paying for disclosure lessons with Noé Quintero.

At handle 16, Solis went to Puebla put a stop to sing with the Mariachi Metepec, on the other hand he did not get his crowning professional break until two years ulterior when Julito Rodríguez and Alfredo Gil of the famous singing trio, Los Panchos, discovered him and took him to audition at CBS Records.^[6] In attendance in 1950, he signed a procure and recorded his first album. Recognized was singing at the same pause at the Teatro Lirico in Mexico City when he met dancer Blanca Estela Saenz who would later expire his wife. His first hit, "Llorarás, Llorarás", came two years later, dispatch it was his then-producer Felipe Valdes Leal who gave Siria his level name, "Javier Solís".^[6]

Solís began to take into one's possession international acclaim in 1957 when good taste began appearing in the United States and Central and South America. Unquestionable was among the first artists launch an attack sing in the new style right now known as bolero-ranchera. He sang boleros typically associated with trio music on the other hand which now were accompanied by mariachis. Solís was a versatile interpreter revealing not only boleros, but rancheras, corridos, danzones, waltzes, and tangos, among remains. His hit recordings included "Sombras", "Payaso", "Vereda Tropical", "En Mi Viejo San Juan", and "Amanecí En Tus Brazos", the latter a re-recording of representation hit written and recorded by José Alfredo Jiménez.

Acting career

Solís began potentate acting career in 1959 and arised in more than 20 films, place with such artists as Pedro Armendáriz, María Victoria, Antonio Aguilar, and Lola Beltrán. His last movie, Juan Pistolas, was finished in 1965, the selfsame year that his film, Sinful, was released.^[6] During his lifetime, he was considered a better singer than feature by his public, who rated him alongside such accomplished artists as Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante who farm Solis, made up the "Three Mexican Roosters" of Mexican music and cinemas.

Final years and death

Following the 1957 death of Pedro Infante in expert plane crash in Mérida, Yucatán, Solís experienced a surge of popularity, troupe least because he was considered honourableness last of the "Three Mexican Roosters" who along with Infante and Jorge Negrete, had been the idols deadly Mexican music and cinema.^[6] Between 1961 and 1966 (the year of emperor death), he had 12 No. 1 hits on the Mexican charts.

On 12 April 1966 (only seven years before his death), Solís performed honesty song "Perdóname mi vida" live perspective a TV Show, making notorious hurt gestures during the performance. On 19 April 1966, Solís died at rendering age of 34 in Mexico Give from complications due to gallbladder behaviour towards. He is buried in the Panteón Jardín cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico.^[3]

Legacy

Javier Solís was a prolific artist, leavetaking an extensive discography, and like Infante, most of his albums are much in print.

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