César Costa
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| Born | César Roel Schreurs August 13, 1941 Mexico City, Mexico |
César Roel Schreurs, best known as César Costa, is a Mexican actor and rock-and-roll singer.
Costa was born in Colonia Condesa of the Mexican capital. He studied elementary and Junior Highschool at the German College and Law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Music career[]
He started his musical career at the age of 17 as César Roel singing and playing guitar with the rock-and-roll band ("The Black Jeans"), singing Spanish versions of American hit singles as well as original songs like La batalla de Jericó. They recorded their first album in 1959 with Peerless Records. His backup singer was world-renowned tenor Plácido Domingo.
When the band signed with Musart Records the band changed its name to ("The Black Shirts") and César Roel to Cesar Costa (honoring music arranger Don Costa). Soon after, the band disintegrated and César started a successful solo career, recording three albums with Orfeón Records. Then with RCA Mexicana he recorded romantic songs.
In 1983 he participated in the OTI Festival and obtained the second place with a song by Sergio Andrade titled Tierno ("Tender").
Acting career[]
Supported by his success in the music industry, he joined other singers in films of the Cinema of Mexico such as Angélica María, Enrique Guzmán and Alberto Vázquez. In 1961 he made his first film .
In 1986 he starred in the sitcom ("Single Dad"), a show that became a success in Latin America and then was adapted to the screen as Me tengo que casar ("I have to get married"). In the 1980s he hosted a comedy show "" and in the 1990s a talk show with model Rebecca de Alba called Un Nuevo Día and next year .
In 1993 he presented a show together with Angélica María, Enrique Guzmán, Manolo Muñoz and Alberto Vásquez at the Auditorio Nacional with great success. He also had a radio show called ("From coast to coast") broadcast on . As of 2005 he has a TV show called ("Caesar salad") on Canal Once of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional.
Honors[]
- to the UNICEF on August 17, 2004
- 2001
- Inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias at the Plaza de las Estrellas in Mexico City for his work in television and in the recording industry.
Albums[]
- Sinceramente
- (1960)
TV shows[]
- "" (2006)
- (1998)
- Un nuevo día (1994–1997)
- Papá soltero (1987–1994) as César
- La carabina de Ambrosio (1978–1983)
- (1968)
Films[]
- (Papá soltero, 1995)
- (1971)
- (1971)
- (1969)
- (1969)
- (1967)
- (1967)
- (1967)
- (1966)
- (1964)
- (1964)
- (1964) TV Series
- Dile que la quiero (1963)
- (1962)
- (1962)
- (1961)
External links[]
- César Costa at IMDb
- Biography (in Spanish)
- Nombran a César Costa embajador de UNICEF (in Spanish) ("César Costa is named ambassador to the UNICEF, article on esmas.com
- List of
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- 1941 births
- Living people
- Male actors from Mexico City
- Singers from Mexico City
- Mexican male film actors
- Mexican radio personalities
- Mexican male singers
- Mexican people of German descent
- National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
- Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners
- Latin music record producers