Agustín Lara Aguirre del Pino was born in Mexico City, DF, on October 30, 1900. His parents were Dr. Joaquín Lara and Maria Aguirre del Pino. His childhood was spent in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, where his two brothers were born later, the Lara family had to move back to the capital of the Republic. They established their new home in Coyoacan, with the help of Refugio Aguirre del Pino, sister of the composer's mother, who was director of the hospice where Augustine confesses that he had the first contact with musical instrument was a harmonium used in the center. Dr. Lara, from initiation taste for musical art discovered in the small Augustine, is strongly opposed to the inclinations of her offspring, who suffered by this concept and the extremely rigid discipline of his father.
Since little was available to run on the fashionable piano melodies and improvise musical passages. At the age of 13, had the opportunity, coupled with economic necessity, to work as a pianist, making the "Ladies Club" than is conceivable, it was a night owl site dissipation. That had its first revenues, facing an early age, the rigors of life with strong dramatic brushstrokes. The
Dr. Lara who was not in Mexico City, was surprised to return, to find the young pianist in an activity that filled him with indignation and led to the determination being locked in the Military College, to be submitted to a severe discipline. Agustín Lara went there one year, which failed, getting through this because Dr. Lara sent it to Durango in heavy work. A pleading of Ms. Lara, was forgiven, re-entering the Military Academy.
In 1927, freed of military discipline, he walked down the path of music, working in a cabaret in the direction of Santa Maria la Redonda, where, as a result of an impulse of jealousy, a woman shot him in the face.
In 1929, he began working on his songs, making friends with singers of impact as Maruca Perez, Juan Arvizu and Trio Garnica Ascencio, who began performing his songs.
In the time when broadcasting becomes popular impact features, on 18 September 1930, was thrown into the air a new station with ambitious plans and included the novel composer Agustín Lara, playing with his controversial style and voice songs that were soon heard throughout Mexico, the intimate time Agustín Lara, was characterized by the release, in each program, one or several songs of his inspiration. Trying to enumerate
Lara's success would be difficult, because it is one of the most prolific composers and add several hundred hits. His song Granada has been around the world in the voices of the most famous artists.
In your love life, we can only say that confession's own musician, his first marriage occurred in 1939 with Carmen Zozaya. In the same line as the sentimental, are also the names of Maria Felix, Clarita Martínez, Yolanda Gazco, Vianey Lárraga and Rocio Duran, with the latter was married in Spain in 1965. Had no offspring and adopted the son of Vivian who baptized Augustine, bringing Lara Lárraga surnames.
made several trips to Europe and most recently in 1965, when he toured the Iberian Peninsula, which was the subject of numerous tributes. In 1967, due to his poor health, was retiring from the art to be isolated from everyone in his house on the corner of Edgar Allan Poe and Homer of Colonia Polanco.
English died at the Hospital of Mexico City on November 6, 1970 and was watched in the Theater of the Society of Authors and Composers of Music, where he was taken on day 7, the Palacio de Bellas Artes, hence went to the Rotunda of Illustrious Men in the Dolores Cemetery.
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