Agustín Lara

À propos de Agustín Lara

Agustín Lara was a pianist, composer, and singer who built the canon of Mexican bolero from a cabaret piano stool in Mexico City. Beginning in the late 1920s with Imposible, he wrote more than 700 songs, many of which became standards across Latin America and Spain, including Solamente Una Vez, Granada, Veracruz, and María Bonita. His weekly radio show La Hora Íntima de Agustín Lara made him the most famous composer in the Spanish-speaking world for two decades. Spain's Franco regime gave him an honorary house in Granada in recognition of his song about the city.