Antonio Aguilar was a Mexican singer, songwriter, and actor. Throughout his long
and illustrious career, he also made a name for himself as an equestrian and
filmmaker. He was born José Pascual Antonio Aguilar Márquez Barraza on May 17,
1919, in Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mexico. As a young man, Antonio Aguilar traveled
to Hollywood to study singing. He started his musical career singing boleros,
but found that his voice lent itself better to the ranchera genre. In the early
1950s, he started working as a performer on Mexican radio station XEW; shortly
after that, he obtained a recor...