1. Pedro Infante died on 15 April 1957 in Merida, Yucatan, while en route to Mexico City when his plane crashed due to engine failure.
20 Facts About Pedro Infante
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From 1939 until his death, Pedro Infante acted in over 60 films and recorded over 350 songs.
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Pedro Infante was born 18 November 1917 in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, the son of Delfino Infante Garcia, who played the double bass in a band, and Maria del Refugio Cruz Aranda.
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Pedro Infante was the third of his parents' fifteen children, nine of whom survived.
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Pedro Infante managed to learn strings, wind, and percussion instruments in a short time, having received music lessons from Carlos R Hubbard.
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Pedro Infante won a charro suit in an amateur contest at the Colonial Theater, singing Vereda Tropical.
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Ernesto Belloc, the station's artistic director at the time, advised Pedro Infante to continue his career as a carpenter, as he was nervous during the audition.
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In that same year, Mexican writer Carmen Barajas Sandoval, a friend and neighbor of Pedro Infante's wife, offered to introduce them to Jorge Negrete, a singer he admired.
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Pedro Infante convinced Negrete to recommend Infante to the producer Ismael Rodriguez and others.
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Pedro Infante acted in over 60 films, 30 of them with his brother Angel.
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Pedro Infante's career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema.
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Pedro Infante sang "Mi Carinito" to his frequent on-screen grandmother, Sara Garcia, so many times in so many of their movies together, that it was played at her funeral.
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Pedro Infante's hobby was aviation, logging 2,989 flight hours, under the pseudonym Captain Cruz, which then led to his death on the morning of 15 April 1957.
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Pedro Infante had survived two prior plane crashes, the first one occurred in 1947, and another in 1949 in which he had received an injury to his forehead that left him with a metal plate.
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Pedro Infante's remains were later identified by the gold bracelet he wore.
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The death of Pedro Infante caused an unprecedented outpouring of grief in Mexico and Latin America leading to reports of suicides, faintings, and nervous breakdowns among his fans.
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Pedro Infante was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 1 August 1993.
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On 2 April 2001, Pedro Infante was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in an awards ceremony that included Xavier Cugat and Ruben Blades.
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Pedro Infante was briefly depicted in the 2017 animated Disney movie Coco, along with Jorge Negrete.
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Antonio Pedro even went to the Maria Laria television talk show in the USA, to claim he was Infante.