Sony International
2006
The Living Legend (Box)
About This Album
With his booming operatic voice, matinee idol looks (he bears an uncanny resemblance, mustache and all, to Burt Reynolds), and over the top flamboyance (no one looks better in a sombrero, or owns more of them), Vicente Fernández has been Mexico's leading ranchera singer for some four decades. He's also a major star within the Mexican-American community -- he's got a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame (Fernández has appeared in dozens of films in Mexico) and routinely sells out large arenas throughout the U.S., where adoring fans (particularly females) have been known to faint at the mere sight of him, holster on his hip, fronting a super-sized strings-and-horns orchestra and belting out his hits. Unfortunately, despite a discography numbering upwards of 100 albums, Fernández, when he's considered at all by the mainstream American press, has been derided as a camp act and has received little recognition outside of media serving his core audience. Astoundingly, this is the first comprehensive box set devoted to the singer's work, really the first serious survey of his recordings, and if there is any justice, it will spur a reconsideration north of the border of this icon's contributions.
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