Antonio Prieto (Chilean actor)
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Antonio Prieto | |
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Born | Juan Antonio Espinoza Prieto 26 May 1926 Iquique, Chile |
Died | 14 July 2011 Santiago de Chile | (aged 85)
Occupation | Actor, singer |
Years active | 1954–68 |
Juan Antonio Espinoza Prieto (26 May 1926 – 14 July 2011)[1] was a Chilean actor.
Also a popular singer, he scored an international 1961 hit with "La novia", later known as "The Wedding" in Great Britain and the US. In 1995 a 20 Greatest Hits CD was released, which included such hits as "La novia" and "El milagro". He also made a very popular Spanish version of a song from the Italian singer Domenico Modugno.
Prieto also sang a popular ballad, "Juan Bobo", in homage to the popular Juan Bobo of Puerto Rican folklore.[2][unreliable source?]
Partial filmography[]
- Juan Mondiola (1950)
- The Two Little Rascals (1961)
- La boda (1964)
- El tímido (1965)
- La industria del matrimonio (1965) - (segment "Romántico")
- De profesión, sospechosos (1966) - Joaquin Frias
- Eroe vagabondo (1966)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Ulloa, Eric; Ponce, David (July 14, 2011). "La música está de duelo: Muere Antonio Prieto, quien inmortalizó "La Novia"" (in Spanish). Emol. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ Musica Fusion, Juan Bobo Retrieved 2013-05-29
External links[]
Media related to Antonio Prieto at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1926 births
- 2011 deaths
- People from Iquique
- Chilean male singers
- Chilean male film actors
- 20th-century Chilean male actors
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