Pedro Infante Cruz was a Mexican ranchera singer and actor whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema.
18 Facts About Pedro Infante
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Pedro Infante died on 15 April 1957 in Merida, Yucatan, while en route to Mexico City when his plane crashed due to engine failure.
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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, 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 fifteen children, of whom nine 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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Ernesto Belloc who was the station's artistic director at the time, advised him that he had better continue his career as a carpenter as Pedro Infante had been nervous during the audition.
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Pedro Infante first appeared as an extra in the movie En un Burro Tres Baturros, or the more correct and succinct transliteration, "Three Baturros on a Burro".
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Pedro Infante succeeded in convincing Negrete to recommend Infante to the producer Ismael Rodriguez, and others.
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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.