Fernando Fernández "El Crooner de México" (1916–1999) was a Mexican actor, singer and director. He was born on November 9, 1916, in

Monterrey Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of th ...

, Mexico, and died in

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, Mexico, on November 24, 1999. Fernando was the son of Eloisa Reyes, brother of the film director

Emilio Fernández Emilio "El Indio" Fernández Romo (; 26 March 1904 – 6 August 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best know ...

and actor Jaime Fernández, and cousin to

. He was married to singer

Lupita Palomera María Guadalupe Palomera Chávez (12 December 1913 – 16 November 2008), known as Lupita Palomera, was a Mexican singer, one of the first and most notable bolero performers in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was known for some time as "La N ...

, who died in 2008. Fernando Fernández was known as "the Crooner of Mexico." Fernández first began singing at radio station XEH in Monterrey in 1933, then moved on to radio station

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located in Mexico City, Mexico, and then later at radio station XEB also located in Mexico City. Fernández returned to Monterrey at his father's request and became a producer at radio station XET, then worked at radio station XET in Mexico City. Fernández then spent six months working for

Radio Mil Diez Radio Mil Diez (or Radio 1010) was a radio station broadcasting from Havana, Cuba, owned by the Popular Socialist Party (PSP). Radio Mil Diez broadcast for five years, between 1943 and 1948, and played an important role in shaping contemporary Cu ...

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(The flower fair)'', '' Enamorada (In love)'' and ''

Ambiciosa ''Ambiciosa'' (English: ''Ambitious'') is a Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Cortazar. It was released in 1953 starring Meche Barba and Fernando Fernández. Plot Estela Durán (Meche Barba) is a young Cuban woman of humble origin, who live ...

(Ambitious)''. He made his directing debut with '' El fistol del diablo''.

Selected filmography

*'' Love of The Street'' (1950) * '' Treacherous'' (1950) * ''

Duel in the Mountains ''Duel in the Mountains'' (Spanish: ''Duelo en las montañas'') is a 1950 Mexican war drama film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Rita Macedo, Fernando Fernández and Eduardo Arozamena. It is inspired by the novel '' A Nest of the Gent ...

'' (1950) *''

If I Were Just Anyone ''If I Were Just Anyone'' (Spanish: ''Si fuera una cualquiera'') is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Cortázar and starring Meche Barba and Fernando Fernández. The film is the sequel to the film ''Love Street''. Plot Fernando ( Fern ...

'' (1950) * '' Arrabalera'' (1951) *'' Love for Sale'' (1951) * ''

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'' (1952) *'' When Children Sin'' (1952) * ''

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'' (1954) *'' Magdalena'' (1955) *''

The Life of Agustín Lara ''The Life of Agustín Lara'' (Spanish: ''La vida de Agustín Lara'') is a 1959 Mexican musical film directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Germán Robles, Lorena Velázquez and Ofelia Montesco.Mora p.261 It is a biographical film about the l ...

'' (1959) *''

Northern Courier ''Northern Courier'' (Spanish: ''El correo del norte'') is a 1960 Mexican western film directed by Zacarías Gómez Urquiza Zacarías Gómez Urquiza (1905-1982) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography * ''Jesusita en ...

'' (1960)

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* 1916 births 1999 deaths Male actors from Monterrey 20th-century Mexican male actors Bolero singers 20th-century Mexican male singers {{Mexico-actor-stub