Born in Caracas, Venezuela, on February 22, 1930, from a child expressed his musical skills did not go unnoticed at school where he studied, and two Salesians, Father and the Father Sidi Calderón is took charge of their musical education by educating their natural voice, a rough diamond rough-and even giving lessons in stage performance.
The child came from an unhappy home by the irresponsibility and neglect of his father, a typical Latin macho left scattered about 50 children in the region. Its sad and lonely childhood was full of hardships as well, by the mother only had to lift guapear and educate the family. The father, drunk and authoritarian, he was singing pop songs, which surprisingly for an advantage for the artist. "I learned to love these songs would say later, Juan Arvizu, Imperio Argentina and singing the same Agustín Lara, which enclosed a world so big for me."
His debut as a 'singer' was given in the Cathedral of Caracas, singing the Ave Maria and impressing those who heard him. Several sponsors helped his training that began at the School of Music in Caracas and continued into Mexico, New York, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSalzburg and Milan and included music theory, piano, harmony and composition.
But his consecration happen yet in popular music, so today is remembered with love and affection not only in the Amazon region to "save the green treasure of American Indian soul ..." (as defined in Singing Harp, a of his most beautiful songs), but in the rest of the continent.
Other skills of young Sánchez were drawing and painting, and his cartoons were published by the newspaper and magazine Sphere puppet. He later worked in the advertising agency Mc Cann-Erickson, and this income would help somewhat to the situation in his home. Thanks to this
Alfredo was able to pay the recording of their first album 78 RPM, on one side the bolero Despair and the other hand, the paso doble Black Diamond, dedicated to the bullfighter Luis Sanchez, a friend of the singer who also once wanted to become a killer and even fought in several occasions.
those days was that his friends advised him to change his name because he already knew in the middle a Alci and Alex Sanchez. Took the first syllable of his surname SA and added'S, last syllable of the name of his idol: Carlos Gardel.
would come after the first recordings, Despair and the Caribbean, the composer Maria Luisa Escobar, You cried yesterday and last night Erder James loved you, Rene Rojas with love I can not, we knew in Juan Legido version, The Gypsy matron.
begins to rub shoulders with leading figures of the time, his countryman Mario Suarez, Raul Shaw Moreno Bolivian and Chilean Antonio Prieto, who dominated the music scene with the boleros de Los Tres Reyes and the Voice of Tenderness, the Puerto Rican Virginia Lopez.
begins to stand at the continental level and travel to Canada from where she went to the United States, performing in places like the Latin Quarter and the Chateau Madrid, New York, accompanied by the orchestra of Aldemaro Romero. The most important thing of this tour is the production of LP My Song, a Hispanic theme selection soon became a bestseller.
His great physical good looks made him a darling of the 'female turkeys' and delirium of women in nations where it was known. The film called early and participated in productions such as A La Habana me go, with the Cubans Blanquita Amaro, Otto Sirgo and Argentine Tito Luisiardo and a year later in flower field. MGM called him to Hollywood where they spent a year receiving salary and not being assigned a role, he went to Mexico where their records they had known. In 1956 participates in the mouse, next to Raul "Raton" Macias, and Tu and lies, with Miguel Aceves Mejia and Evangelina Elizondo.
In 1958 he moved to Cuba where the master was the Chilean Lucho Gatica. César Miguel Rondón musicologist says of those days, "record albums, television shows and his photograph appears with praise in almost all the magazines and publications of the island. Alfredo Sadel called legitimate member of all the pomp and elation Farandulera who knew the continent at that time. "
His passage through the island was recorded in two recordings made at different times and among other fine tunes included Lágrimas Negras de Miguel Matamoros, Night Blue, Ernesto Lecuona and If I can wish, Ignacio Villa, Bola de Nieve.
appear to him in Cuba a few lumps in the throat that turned out to be benign. His cure is a miracle attributed to Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica, who called his benefactor. He returned in 1960 to Mexico where it operates in three stray bullets with Javier Solis, Elvira Quintana, María Victoria and Julio Aldama. Reunites with Aceves Mejia in luck, with the Mexican film grandmother Doña Sara García and again with Solís and Aldama, in every fair in love.
His film career ended with Martin Santos, the Plains, co-mexico-Venezuelan music by Juan Vicente Torrealba and Chelique Sarabia, again with Aceves Mejia famous for his falsetto and his shock of white hair. It plays Sadel Di, with a beautiful theme that displays his formidable voice also appear Adilia Lorena Velasquez and Castillo, the goldfinch in Venezuela, well remembered for the coup Tocuyano.
In 1961 he moved to Europe devoted to the music called educated: opera, operetta and zarzuela will win the applause of selected public and demanding. Critics praise his beautiful tenor voice over the years has gained in intensity. The people however never forgot and their versions of Humanity, Vereda Tropical, Uncertainty, The cumaco of San Juan, El juice, Domino, has my soul, Desvelo Love, Grief, Do not care to know, Granada, I'll always go, Those green eyes, tears (of Colombia Alvaro Dalmar) and its unrepeatable versions Anxiety and Madrigal (Felipe Rosario Goyco, Don Felo), a wide spectrum ranging from bolero to the folk to classic continued listening to-and even-heard in many radio stations in our America. He
great duets, including the soprano Alba Marina and the other with Beny Moré, the Barbarian of Rhythm, which occupies prime place among American collectors, particularly their version of free Alma.
excelled as a composer, to be motivated and inspired countless pieces I will not deceive you, Two words, another rose, iron man, swallows the time, I want to Maracaibo, reasoning, reason, and dozens more.
returned to Cuba in 1978 won tributes apotheosis who encouraged him to record again popular music, between her an album with music of Los Panchos and another that paid tribute to Morocho del Abasto, Carlos Gardel.
He settled in New York since 1985 and traveled a lot since then to Caracas, and Colombia, especially in Medellín, where he said feel welcome the very fond tribute to its people. When I was happier for the opportunity to stand at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, his health began to deteriorate. Was performing in Cali, Colombia, when he had to travel urgently to Caracas on December 31, 1988.