Pedro Infante
Pedro Infante Cruz rose from Sinaloa to become a defining voice and face of the golden age of Mexican cinema, recording over 50 albums and starring in dozens of films between his 1943 debut and his death in a 1957 plane crash. Nicknamed the King of the Bolero, his warm, unhurried tenor on songs like 'Cien Años' set a standard for romantic Mexican singing that shaped generations of ranchera and norteño vocalists.
the sound in question
1953
Cien AñosPedro Infante
we haven’t charted Pedro Infante yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.