Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché (7 December 1935 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America.[1] He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in the United States in 2014. He was the president of the Mexican Society of Authors and Composers (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Manzanero and the second or maternal family name is Canché.
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché
28 December 2020
Mexico City, Mexico
- Composer
- pianist
- singer
- Piano
- voice
1950–2020
Early life[edit]
Manzanero was born in Ticul, Yucatán on 7 December 1935.[2] His father was singer and composer Santiago Manzanero and his mother Juanita Canché Baqueiro played the jarana jarocha.[3] At the age of eight he was introduced to the world of music at the Escuela de Bellas Artes (School of Fine Arts), later furthering his musical studies in Mexico City.[3]
Death[edit]
On 17 December 2020, Manzanero was hospitalized in Mexico City after being diagnosed with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[9] Manzanero died eleven days later from the virus, aged 85 on 28 December 2020, twenty one days after his birthday.[2] His body was cremated and his ashes were transferred to Mérida, in Yucatán where he was born and where there is a house museum in his honor.
Recognition[edit]
Manzanero was presented with the Excellence Award at the 1993 Lo Nuestro Awards.[10] He received the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010[11] as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.[12] Manzanero was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2000,[13] the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2003,[14] and the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013.[15] Manzanero was presented with the ASCAP Latin Heritage Award in 2010.[16] He also earned the Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.[17]