Gualberto Antonio Castro Levario was a Mexican singer, actor and television presenter.
11 Facts About Gualberto Castro
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Gualberto Castro began his artistic career as a backup dancer when he was 14 years old in the Teatro Blanquita, located in downtown Mexico City.
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Later, their first cousin, Benito Gualberto Castro entered the group as a musician and a singer, but he gradually turned into a comedian like his late father, Arturo "Bigoton" Gualberto Castro.
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When returning to Mexico, Los Hermanos Gualberto Castro decided to go their separate ways, each successfully developing a career in music.
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Gualberto Castro embarked on a solo singing career, recording one album a year and appearing in numerous night clubs, theaters, movies and television; he was a long time emcee for La Carabina de Ambrosio, a popular weekly television show during the early 1980s that co-starred the magician Beto "El Boticario" and dancer Gina Montes.
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Gualberto Castro appeared on television, theaters and nightclubs with numerous entertainers such as Judy Garland, Paul Anka, Veronica Gualberto Castro and Laura Zapata.
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Gualberto Castro entered and won the fourth edition of the OTI Festival award twice, once in 1975 for "La felicidad", written by Felipe Gill.
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Gualberto Castro received numerous awards and honors from Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and the United States, including a lifetime award for singing and entertaining from the Accociacion Nacional de Actores.
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Gualberto Castro maintained a strict lifestyle that entailed drinking no alcoholic beverages or coffee, meditation, exercise and yoga.
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Gualberto Castro was married six times, firstly to Altia Michel from 1954 until 1959, to Susana Edwards from 1962 until 1968, to Mariana Castro from 1979 until 1984, to Alejandra Walliser from 1986 until 2003, to Alexis Cordova from 2004 until 2006 and finally to Gudrun Becker until his death.
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Gualberto Castro died in Zona Rosa, Mexico City on 27 June 2019, due to health complications arising from treatment for bladder cancer, among which was a pulmonary infection.