Pedro Infante

About Pedro Infante

Pedro Infante was the most beloved star of the golden age of Mexican cinema and the most enduring voice of the ranchera. Born in Mazatlán in 1917, he recorded more than 350 songs and starred in 60 films, building a body of work that fused the cantina ballad, the bolero, and the gentle-tough charro persona into the country's emotional canon. His death in a 1957 plane crash on a flight from Mérida to Mexico City turned him into a national figure of mourning. Cien Años, Amorcito Corazón, and his readings of Cuando el destino remain karaoke staples seven decades on.