Speaker 1: Joseph, it has been a minute, and that means it's
Speaker 1: time for us to check in on our past lives.
Speaker 2: Joseph Joseph, Oh sorry, I had to get my singing boat,
Speaker 2: my incense mis VELAs and my friend photo of Kura.
Speaker 1: Every day you read my mind? Should we virtually join hands?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Should I put my palm up against the screen.
Speaker 2: Like through the screen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously, Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm putting my hand on the screen on the zoom window.
Speaker 1: Okay, I am.
Speaker 2: I see lights, camera action? Holi what no Mexico city
Speaker 2: in the nineteen forties?
Speaker 1: Are we in the city or on a set?
Speaker 2: On a set?
Speaker 1: And wait? Are you wearing chattle suit.
Speaker 2: At almira como rio and bitch you and the black
Speaker 2: chaffon prairie dressed girl? This time? I'm La Bigonia and
Speaker 2: your las Somra. Wait? Were we Mexican movie stars?
Speaker 1: Well, then those must be our trailers. That big one
Speaker 1: over there, that's me and that little one's yours?
Speaker 2: Oh oh, bedient la Mala or is she not Gotti
Speaker 2: hurado Liliana. We were a.
Speaker 1: Brother and sister musical duo from Hali School with generations
Speaker 1: of Mariacci in our blood. Recently it rod to Mexico
Speaker 1: City to take part in the silver screen immortalization of
Speaker 1: our tradition during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Uh,
Speaker 1: we were the twentieth century iteration of a musical legacy
Speaker 1: of rural laborers turned in national heroes and icons, a
Speaker 1: beacon of closet revolutionary national Mexican pride.
Speaker 2: Hello, we were extras.
Speaker 1: Oh damn, let's just get on with the episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably we need to make some money, aha, listeners. Today's
Speaker 1: icon is a big, one, huge, massive iconic, a vocalist
Speaker 1: and an actor who took the baton of Mariaci music
Speaker 1: from the biggest star of the Mexican Golden Age of cinema,
Speaker 1: single handedly carrying the genre into the latter half of
Speaker 1: the twentieth century with a powerful voice and a snappy
Speaker 1: ghiadra suit.
Speaker 2: Not to mention a working class hero who personally knew
Speaker 2: the real life that his songs described. Today's icon was
Speaker 2: the kind of person men would actively model their lives
Speaker 2: off of.
Speaker 1: Almost like someone who plays a role that you want
Speaker 1: to play in your own life.
Speaker 2: Oh, a role model.
Speaker 1: There it is. We're talking, of course about the sane
Speaker 1: Fernandos undisputed figure of national pride and an international ambassador
Speaker 1: of Mariacci.
Speaker 2: And history is as juicy as a TEAA drink.
Speaker 1: Ooh, are we doing my ties instead of Margarita's today.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing a zombie.
Speaker 1: I want to get stupid for we Senta Now that
Speaker 1: is a T shirt. Salute Joseph today on becoming an
Speaker 1: Icon El Charro de guent Titan, we sent the Fefnandez
Speaker 1: chases his dreams. I'm your host, Lilianavoscuez.
Speaker 2: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an Icon.
Speaker 1: A weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on
Speaker 1: how today's most famous Latin v stars have shaped pop culture.
Speaker 2: And given the world some extra tubble.
Speaker 1: Sit back and get comfortable.
Speaker 2: Because we are going in the only way we know how,
Speaker 2: with buenas vias.
Speaker 1: Buenasriesas, some cheese, and a lot of opinions as we
Speaker 1: relive their greatest achievements on our journey to find out
Speaker 1: what makes them so iconic. Before we get into the
Speaker 1: life and times that we sent the fen on this,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about role models.
Speaker 2: Well, Ursula from The Little Mermaid.
Speaker 1: You're so random, No, not ursula. But let's get into it.
Speaker 1: When you were began like a little baby Joseph, who
Speaker 1: did you want to be like? Or who did you
Speaker 1: see as a role model?
Speaker 2: Oh god, who did I see as a role model? Like?
Speaker 1: Who did you dream of being like? Or similar to?
Speaker 1: It's weird, y'all, y'all are not ready. Let's just prepare
Speaker 1: the listeners. Y'all are not ready for the answer.
Speaker 2: It was a shoeshock hmm.
Speaker 1: Shusha ginn as Shusha.
Speaker 2: She was this like nineties like pop star. She had
Speaker 2: this little not pop star. She had a TV show
Speaker 2: and I just thought she was so pretty and she
Speaker 2: was so cool.
Speaker 1: Wait, tell me more about her please, Like she was like.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it was like this TV show and
Speaker 2: she was just like very fashionable and so pretty. I
Speaker 2: think she was Spanish anyways, Wait why why? Why? Well?
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask because I feel like that's
Speaker 1: so telling about like where you are in your journey
Speaker 1: and the influences that surround you when you're a little kid.
Speaker 2: Like Okay, wait, hold on, who did you want to
Speaker 2: be when you grew up?
Speaker 1: Angela from Who's the Boss?
Speaker 2: Wait? You did grow up to be here?
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, yeah, I thought that Angela Bauer. Who If
Speaker 1: you guys don't know the show Who's the Boss, It
Speaker 1: was like this amazing series that aired in the eighties
Speaker 1: and it featured a single mom who was raising a
Speaker 1: young boy. Her mother lived like either nearby or in
Speaker 1: the guest house I can't remember, and she had a
Speaker 1: male housekeeper slash manny named Tony Danza. And I was
Speaker 1: obsessed with her because she was one of the first
Speaker 1: relatable women that I saw in a position of power,
Speaker 1: both in her home and also at work, because she
Speaker 1: was like a massive advertising executive on the show, right,
Speaker 1: she was super successful, she had great clothes, and she
Speaker 1: fucking ran shit. And I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be Angela Bauer. I mean, by the way, are you
Speaker 1: surprised that that was who my role model was?
Speaker 2: No? Okay, wait, I have another funny question. So were
Speaker 2: you ever like, what would Angela do? Yes? Yes, stop it,
Speaker 2: that is so funny. I guess I was never like
Speaker 2: what would she should do? So okay, maybe sort of mind,
Speaker 2: but like that's so.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, we all have our role models, as random
Speaker 1: and strained as they might be, and when Vicenta Fernandez
Speaker 1: today's icon was a little boy, his role model was
Speaker 1: none other than the one the only Pedro in Fane.
Speaker 2: If you're listening with your abuela pasa pod and calm
Speaker 2: la vejadan, our past life, co star was quite the
Speaker 2: heart throb.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, co star, you said we were extras Aina anyway,
Speaker 1: betherin fantas charisma as both a singer and an actor
Speaker 1: captivated millions, and little Vicente Fernandez was among them.
Speaker 2: V sent this mother would take him to the movies
Speaker 2: to see Infante in dramas likes and musicals like so La.
Speaker 1: Solas, and there in the theater, Vicente would tell his
Speaker 1: mother that when he grows up, he's going to be
Speaker 1: just like Pedroine Funde and home.
Speaker 2: Dude had some strong manifesting powers, but of course it
Speaker 2: was all written in the stars. Because as an Aquarius
Speaker 2: sun Taurus moon born February seventeenth, nineteen forty, little Vicente
Speaker 2: has a big sense of determination and perseverance. This this
Speaker 2: boy is all about setting and smashing.
Speaker 1: Bowl h I feel like I might know an Aquarius
Speaker 1: sun Taurus moon at the gym.
Speaker 2: Do they drink that fancy protein powder? Because Aquarius Sun,
Speaker 2: Taurus Moon. Love them a status symbol, maybe a little
Speaker 2: too much, but they also value a meaningful connection, and
Speaker 2: one can balance out the other.
Speaker 1: A classic farm boy with a dream is what I'd
Speaker 1: like to say. And deslin Novicente was to build, buthering
Speaker 1: fund his shoes we sent his father wasn't having it
Speaker 1: with all his big dreams.
Speaker 2: At the age of eleven, Vicynthe decided to cut school.
Speaker 2: He'd been playing the guitar since the age of eight
Speaker 2: and decided he want to focus exclusively on music. And
Speaker 2: his dad said.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go to school and I'll put
Speaker 1: your apps to work.
Speaker 2: That's scary what you just did there? Do you do
Speaker 2: that to funny?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, no, that's true. I could never.
Speaker 1: I would cry before I spoke like that to my child.
Speaker 1: And by the way, saying that out loud made it
Speaker 1: way scarier for me than it was for you. Like
Speaker 1: I'm scared of angry parents. But how is this for scary?
Speaker 1: Milking cows at two am in a graveyard in the
Speaker 1: middle of a windstorm.
Speaker 2: What kind of Scooby do? And the Mystery cruise? Shit
Speaker 2: is that a graveyard?
Speaker 1: No? Mystery's ear just the life in the boonies. Visenta's
Speaker 1: father punished him for dropping out of school by making
Speaker 1: him a ranch hand. He'd wake him up at two
Speaker 1: am every night and send him out to round up
Speaker 1: the cows who roamed free through the grounds.
Speaker 2: Okay, so when I picture free range cows, I don't
Speaker 2: picture goth cows chilling in a graveyard reading poetry.
Speaker 1: And yet these scooby Doo goth cows were wandering around
Speaker 1: the family graveyard, and little Vicente, rightfully so was terrified.
Speaker 2: Basito like those cows probably sounded like zombie at night
Speaker 2: four in the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, but that's not all.
Speaker 1: They lived right by the valley of the Rio Grande Santiago,
Speaker 1: which meant canyon winds, which on its own is enough
Speaker 1: to ruin your brunch into panga. But these winds were
Speaker 1: blowing cowshit at me, sent his.
Speaker 2: Knees, and after all that, he had to milk the cows. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not it.
Speaker 1: He also had to go to town and sell the milk.
Speaker 2: Fuck that take me back to school.
Speaker 1: Right, And yet he sent this stuck with it for
Speaker 1: three years.
Speaker 2: But after literally wading through the shit, our boy got
Speaker 2: a win a literal first place to win in a
Speaker 2: singing contest in Guadarajara.
Speaker 1: From there he started to sing at restaurants and in weddings.
Speaker 2: You know, the usual track, until the cows came home
Speaker 2: to Roos.
Speaker 1: No, wait, I think you mixed up two different sayings there.
Speaker 2: Well, his dad's milk business went under, is like what
Speaker 2: I was trying to say. So, just as little Vicenta
Speaker 2: was starting to see some validation of his talent as
Speaker 2: a singer.
Speaker 1: The family found itself seeking work opportunities elsewhere, and so
Speaker 1: we sent them along with his parents and sisters, were
Speaker 1: off pit, the one we go there.
Speaker 2: So often on this show. Should we be looking at property?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there needs to be an entire
Speaker 1: podcast just about the one. H Like, what the fuck
Speaker 1: was going on there? Well, we'll do some zillowing off
Speaker 1: mic to see what prices are like right now? Interest
Speaker 1: rates are not great in the US, but maybe they're
Speaker 1: better in Mexico. And unlike some of our other icons,
Speaker 1: we sent the fer Fernandez did not end up performing
Speaker 1: and getting immersed in the Bordertown music scene.
Speaker 2: Ke and his family went there to do manual labor,
Speaker 2: and it might have made a miss the cows.
Speaker 1: We sent the washed cars, shine shoes, and at night
Speaker 1: he washed dishes at a restaurant called La Caasica. Eventually
Speaker 1: he would join his father and work as a bricklayer
Speaker 1: at construction sites we sent them.
Speaker 2: Would watch his father struggle to carry buckets of cement
Speaker 2: mix around the construction site, and instead of thinking karma's
Speaker 2: a bit bobby, he said to himself, someday I'm going
Speaker 2: to be someone important and my father won't have to
Speaker 2: carry cement. There's our Aquarius son Taurus Moon.
Speaker 1: After getting hernia as a teenager, visent them would move
Speaker 1: on from the heavy lifting and take work painting houses.
Speaker 1: He sang as he worked and delighted his coworkers so
Speaker 1: much that everyone wanted to share ships with him.
Speaker 2: Who wouldn't want a front row seat like that?
Speaker 1: After years of work, the family finally returned to Guentitan
Speaker 1: in the late nineteen fifties. There we sent this finally
Speaker 1: was able to embrace working as a singer.
Speaker 2: He worked at bar Circuit along with local mariachi's singing
Speaker 2: covers of Josel Ferro Jimenez here in his tips night
Speaker 2: after night. But soon something else caught his eye. Or
Speaker 2: should I say someone.
Speaker 1: On a sunny Sunday morning we sent this spouted a
Speaker 1: young woman coming out of church. Her name was Maria
Speaker 1: del Grefuchio Abarca Villa Seignor, but just just better known
Speaker 1: as Kukita, the woman who had become VI sent what.
Speaker 2: Vicente made the first move, So he gave Couquita a
Speaker 2: single flower in the middle of the town square for
Speaker 2: everybody to see. Honestly, it sounds like he took it
Speaker 2: from a bedro in pantemovie.
Speaker 1: Wait were we in that one?
Speaker 2: We should have been, I mean Avi.
Speaker 1: Later, Vicente would declare his love for Couquita in front
Speaker 1: of his parents and asked her to be his wife.
Speaker 1: She told him that she would make a decision by
Speaker 1: the following Sunday, and when the day arrived.
Speaker 2: Coquita was like, oh my God, yes, yes, I like you.
Speaker 2: And from there the two were inseparable.
Speaker 1: It was just like a Hollywood romance. That is until
Speaker 1: we Sent This. Career started to rev up. In nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty Vicenta Fernandez was the talk of Gualalajara.
Speaker 2: Tenthe as the vocals knew him, had made his TV
Speaker 2: debut in La Calandria Mosical, the city's most popular TV
Speaker 2: show at the time.
Speaker 1: Man, do you remember local TV celebrities?
Speaker 2: You know, we didn't really have them middle pass so,
Speaker 2: but I will say, like the people who did the
Speaker 2: news were local celebrities. I don't know why people thought
Speaker 2: they were famous, but they're like local celebrities, So yes,
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites was Gloria compos She was like
Speaker 1: the anchor of the evening news in Dallas. Were worth
Speaker 1: in the eighties us with her.
Speaker 2: Wait do stop? So the one that I'm thinking about.
Speaker 2: Her name was Estella Castillo, and she had this show
Speaker 2: called Estella Sisquellas and I remember it forever, and she
Speaker 2: was like famous because she like would highlight schools that
Speaker 2: were making a difference whatever a.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, so cute anyway. Chanta's TV debut was
Speaker 1: another long awaited validation of his talents. He won first
Speaker 1: place in a single contest featuring several other local vocalists.
Speaker 2: The prize was a modest thirty five vessels, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't the point he was after. He wanted to know
Speaker 2: for sure that he was a big fish in a
Speaker 2: small pond.
Speaker 1: There was only one place to go in that situation,
Speaker 1: and that was the biggest pond in Mexico for an
Speaker 1: entertainer to that the Mexico.
Speaker 2: After spending years chilling in the graveyard with the cows,
Speaker 2: and after watching his dad carry that concrete we sent
Speaker 2: they wanted to go after his dream. But that meant
Speaker 2: saying goodbye to Uquita.
Speaker 1: Told Couquita, I don't know how things are going to
Speaker 1: turn out for you in me. You should find someone else.
Speaker 2: Honesty, bitch, I have heard that one. I have said
Speaker 2: that one. Sorry, I just wanted to say that.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, don't be all victim. I
Speaker 1: know you, I know how you operate. When we sent
Speaker 1: there arrived in too that the Mexico, he found himself
Speaker 1: in a familiar place, singing in a restaurant backed by Mariacci,
Speaker 1: but the scale was unlike what he knew.
Speaker 2: This was one of those career launching spots where Mariacchi
Speaker 2: singers paid their dues.
Speaker 1: All around the restaurant were larger than life stained glass
Speaker 1: windows depicting Fiesta del barrio, Mariacci singing to tables, spectators
Speaker 1: cheering on cock fights, friends toasting with tequila botellespigados as
Speaker 1: far as the eye can see. Basically every cantina style
Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant you've ever been to wants to be this place.
Speaker 2: Tendi ruled over Saturday nights at E La man Said,
Speaker 2: where girls would ask him to sing in their ear.
Speaker 2: The money was better than Waldrakara, and the crowds were.
Speaker 1: Way bigger, and though Tenta had said goodbye to com
Speaker 1: keep them, he wrote to her daily over his time
Speaker 1: in the city, telling her all about the goings on
Speaker 1: intoe that the Mexico.
Speaker 2: Which let's talk about it. There is a bit of
Speaker 2: fuck boyism in telling your girl to find someone else,
Speaker 2: but then writing them every day like that is Legit mean,
Speaker 2: I'm like, move on, but I'm going to text you.
Speaker 1: Okay. That's the thing though, But like, can we go
Speaker 1: back to an era when men made this much effort.
Speaker 1: Like I hear my single friends complaining. They're like, he
Speaker 1: didn't text me, and I'm like, oh, well, maybe he's busy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, these bitches were writing letters, yeah, licking stamps,
Speaker 1: putting it in the mail using a pencil.
Speaker 2: Like the excuse now is the dude, it's because his
Speaker 2: grandma died fourteen years ago.
Speaker 1: It's like, what zero excuses. If they like you, they
Speaker 1: will that's it anyway. At any rate. Clearly, his goodbye
Speaker 1: to Goquita wasn't goodbye forever. But that year, in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty three, he would say goodbye forever to somebody else.
Speaker 2: We sent this mother Baola had been battling cancer. He
Speaker 2: returned home to say goodbye, and with her last breath,
Speaker 2: his mother told him how proud she was of him.
Speaker 1: And in response, we sent the double down on all
Speaker 1: his promises to become a musical idol and to always
Speaker 1: take care of his family.
Speaker 2: Tenta knew two things, and knew them well. That he
Speaker 2: was born to sing and that Coquita was a love
Speaker 2: of his life.
Speaker 1: So on Christmas Day, Tenta asked her if she was
Speaker 1: saying anyone.
Speaker 2: And a true lover. No, she did have a new
Speaker 2: man because Gokita ain't no weight around, bitch.
Speaker 1: And THENTA pulling another bed in fantam move told her,
Speaker 1: you have ten minutes to leave him because you and
Speaker 1: I are getting married in two days. I am not here.
Speaker 1: This is this is I'm not here for this. This
Speaker 1: is red flag, red.
Speaker 2: Flag, because nothing says romance like a count sound. Although
Speaker 2: I guess we do do a New Year's kiss.
Speaker 1: And I guess Koukita was all about the red flags
Speaker 1: because she went ahead and dropped her man and on
Speaker 1: December twenty seventh, she and Vicent they were wet. They
Speaker 1: would be together, you guys for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1: Fah like end game.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Well, but things didn't start off easy if
Speaker 2: you sent this. Hustle brought him to at asadape a
Speaker 2: cabaret where he worked over time, not only singing but ficando,
Speaker 2: which sounds like it's more than what it actually is.
Speaker 1: Fichando is basically when an employee gets the patrons to
Speaker 1: buy them a drink in exchange for a little conversation,
Speaker 1: thus enabling them to spend more money at the bar
Speaker 1: and earning the employee a kickback.
Speaker 2: And now you know what Maddy chiefs and strippers having common.
Speaker 1: Viichando and occasionally some sequence. Sure enough, Cente would earn
Speaker 1: more money from fichando than from singing, which meant very
Speaker 1: long hours.
Speaker 2: But fortunately we sent that didn't stay long at elsaape.
Speaker 2: Soon he joined some of Mexico's most popular mariachi orchestras.
Speaker 1: El Mariachi Amanser, El mariachijsel Ula. Tenta's big Fish Seeks
Speaker 1: Bigger Pond gambit was turning a result.
Speaker 2: Tenta was coming up and turning heads with his voice
Speaker 2: wherever he went. He even started hanging out around CBS
Speaker 2: studios in New Mexico in hopes of scoring on audition,
Speaker 2: but try as he might, he couldn't catch anyone's ear.
Speaker 1: CBS already had a ranchetta singer, Javier Solis, and if
Speaker 1: we've learned one thing about the recording industry on this show,
Speaker 1: it's that they've long preferred a one and done approach
Speaker 1: to Latin musicians.
Speaker 2: Tinty did get on the radio via Mexico's top radio
Speaker 2: station at the time, x X No.
Speaker 1: Not Charlie, that's Ekis eh Echis.
Speaker 2: His on air performances upped his cloud, but our boy
Speaker 2: wanted to get on WAX.
Speaker 1: As fate would have it, on April nineteenth, nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: things would change for Vicente in a most unexpected way.
Speaker 1: Javier Solis, Mexico's premier ranchetta singer, tragically died from complications
Speaker 1: following surgery.
Speaker 2: And the guy's body wasn't even cold before CBS, along
Speaker 2: with every major record label that turned Vicente away started
Speaker 2: looking for someone to phil Solice's empty throne.
Speaker 1: And Vicente would give them the voice that they'd been
Speaker 1: waiting for. We return now to our favorite evening variety show,
Speaker 1: cim bren Domingo with host Raoul Velasco.
Speaker 2: It's nineteen seven and Mexican Ryan Seacrest. Excuse me introduces
Speaker 2: Vicente Fernandez on stage to a massive television audience.
Speaker 1: Okay, you are warmer than last time, but still sacrilege anyway.
Speaker 1: By nineteen seventy, the Vicenta Fernandez train had picked up
Speaker 1: steam with three albums full of film soundtrack ready Ranchera tunes, But.
Speaker 2: The Vicenta Fernandez train would get steamy in a whole
Speaker 2: nother kind of way in nineteen seventy with the album
Speaker 2: Knie and Defense Appropia.
Speaker 1: In introducing Fernandez Simprendomingo, host Raoul Velascom christened him the
Speaker 1: quote sexy cowboy now, in reference to the cover of
Speaker 1: his latest album, on which the singer wore an open
Speaker 1: Mariaki shirt revealing a full Bear Torso.
Speaker 2: Now listeners here, I'm becoming an icon. You know. We
Speaker 2: like to ask the hard.
Speaker 1: Question, which is why journalistic integrity demands that we put
Speaker 1: forth the question.
Speaker 2: So ken Vi Sente Fernandez getty.
Speaker 1: Short answer, yes, okay, okay, yes, a long answer only
Speaker 1: in like nineteen seventy to nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2: Five per say less, say less.
Speaker 1: Since we don't have video on this podcast, send us
Speaker 1: it to him if you want us to add it,
Speaker 1: and maybe iHeart will give it to us. Let me
Speaker 1: describe the album cover. So it's Vicente in front of
Speaker 1: what I'm guessing is inn a gothy plant, and he's
Speaker 1: wearing like a baby sky blue shirt wide open with
Speaker 1: a silk scarf, and he's holding his gigantic just kiddings.
Speaker 1: I don't I know, no, no, no, no, it's not
Speaker 1: x rayed. He's holding a very large belt buckle, smiling
Speaker 1: with like his bare hairy chest open to the sunlight.
Speaker 1: It was good.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, he wouldn't be able to
Speaker 2: get it with this from.
Speaker 1: You mean this meaning your current state like this look.
Speaker 2: I think if it was buttoned up, I would have
Speaker 2: liked it more.
Speaker 1: I think the whole reason people wanted to give it
Speaker 1: to him and he could get it was because it
Speaker 1: was open.
Speaker 2: Hello, yeah, I guess, I guess I get it. I
Speaker 2: never have my shirt on.
Speaker 1: This was scandalous in Mexico in nineteen seventy, like fucking scandalous.
Speaker 2: I believe it. But I'll say this. You know, he's
Speaker 2: like a men's man. It's like, oh what you don't
Speaker 2: want to see, Like it's my chest relaxed. You see
Speaker 2: me at the beach, I.
Speaker 1: Know, but just the way he's standing and like the
Speaker 1: voice this was.
Speaker 2: Six dude, Stop it's getting hot over here. All I
Speaker 2: have on is the radio.
Speaker 1: I mean, what about for you? Are we smashing our
Speaker 1: passing yo?
Speaker 2: Till nineteen ninety bitch, I'm just kidding. Probably the same.
Speaker 2: I mean, I also don't necessarily like Daddy's Like I
Speaker 2: kind of like my age and he kind of he
Speaker 2: kind of came out daddy looking like a man's man.
Speaker 2: He's like that mat Yeah, like that man's man's man.
Speaker 1: He definitely has daddy energy. But you're right, even when
Speaker 1: he was like unbebeh he still had like daddy energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was like a signor like it felt like it. Well,
Speaker 2: I blamed a zombie cows too, honest.
Speaker 1: Visend Fernandez had taken the romantic machismo of the Mariacci
Speaker 1: to New Heights and become a genuine sex symbol in
Speaker 1: Mexico as well as a masculine role model, because they
Speaker 1: don't always go hand in hand.
Speaker 2: It's true and that right there is a four quadrant star,
Speaker 2: so naturally. Two years later, Vicente Fernandez made the jump
Speaker 2: to the silver screen.
Speaker 1: In dacosad Gobin, Fernandez plays a humble street taco vendor
Speaker 1: who wins a sweet steaks run by a soap company,
Speaker 1: and his prize a.
Speaker 2: New car, and the shiny new whip attracts new lady
Speaker 2: friends and jealousy.
Speaker 1: This first movie set the template for several of his
Speaker 1: future starring roles. A man of the people suddenly finds fortune,
Speaker 1: drawing attention from the ladies, along with complications.
Speaker 2: More money, more problems, honey. It was the same blueprint
Speaker 2: as his idol veterin Fante, the classic Mexican cowboy.
Speaker 1: This was an archetype whose roots reached back to the
Speaker 1: very beginning of Mexican cinema's golden age in the nineteen thirties,
Speaker 1: and while the seventies were a very different time in
Speaker 1: the movie biz in Mexico, the everyman archetype still had
Speaker 1: mass appeal.
Speaker 2: And more importantly, Tenta had sex appeal. When you paid
Speaker 2: for a ticket to see the sexy cowboy on screen,
Speaker 2: you were paying to hear a swoon worthy musical number
Speaker 2: and picture yourself at the center of a steamy love
Speaker 2: triangle between Mi Sente Fernandez and some other guy.
Speaker 1: Frednanguz was star in sixteen movies in the nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: and twenty more in the decades that followed, including the
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