Tito Guízar

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Tito Guízar
Guizar in 1935.
Born	Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino (1908-04-08)April 8, 1908 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Died	December 24, 1999(1999-12-24) (aged 91) San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Years active	1923–1999
Spouse(s)	Carmen Noriega (1932–1990) (her death)

Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtito ˈɣisaɾ]; April 8, 1908 – December 24, 1999) was a Mexican singer and actor. Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, he performed under the name of Tito Guízar. Together with superstars Dolores del Río, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, as well as José Mojica, Guízar was among the few Mexican people who made history in the early years of Hollywood.

Career[]

In a career that spanned over seven decades, Guízar trained early as an opera singer and traveled to New York City in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara.

In addition, Guízar performed both operatic and Mexican popular songs at Carnegie Hall, but he succeeded with his arrangements of popular Mexican and Spanish melodies such as Cielito Lindo, La Cucaracha (The Cockroach), Granada, and You Belong to My Heart (English version of Solamente una Vez). In 1936, his song "Allá en el Rancho Grande" ("There on the Big Ranch") launched the singing charro in Mexico after appearing in the film of the same name, succeeding as well in the United States.

Guízar made numerous television appearances, toured in most of Latin American countries, recorded a significant number of songs, and had his own radio show in Los Angeles, Tito Guízar y su Guitarra (Tito Guízar and his Guitar).

Films[]

He also appeared in dozens of films, including The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938), Tropic Holiday (1938), St. Louis Blues (1939), The Llano Kid (1939), Brazil (1944), and The Gay Ranchero (1948), playing with such stars as Evelyn Keyes, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Ann Miller, Martha Raye, Roy Rogers, Mae West and Keenan Wynn. In the 1990s, he continued playing series parts in Mexican television.

Death[]

Guízar died from natural causes in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 91.

Partial filmography[]

References[]

External links[]

• Tito Guízar at IMDb
• Tito Guizar singing with Thalia on YouTube
• Tito Guizar singing with the actress Alma Rosa Aguirre in the film El Pecado de Ser Mujer (The Sin of Being a Woman) on archive.org (in Spanish)
• Tito Guizar singing with orchestra on record albums archived on archive.org
• Portrait of Tito Guízar and his family, wife Carmen and daughter Nina, Los Angeles, 1935. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Tito Guizar recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.