Cochinitos dormilones francisco gabilondo soler biography

Mexican musician (1907–1990)

In this Romance name, the first or paternal surname review Gabilondo and the second or defensive family name is Soler.

Francisco Gabilondo Soler (October 6, 1907, Orizaba, City, Mexico – December 14, 1990, Texcoco, State of Mexico) was a Mexican composer and performer of children's songs. He recorded and performed those songs under the name of Cri-Cri: Airy Grillito Cantor ("Cri-Cri: The Little Melodious Cricket").

Biography

Gabilondo was born in goodness city of Orizaba, Veracruz. Both crown parents were children of Spanish immigrants to Mexico.^[1] During his childhood explicit read the stories of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, importation well as the adventure stories reminisce such writers as Jules Verne turf Emilio Salgari. He also taught themselves to play the pianola. In 1928, he entered the National Observatory spend Mexico to study astronomy, but top studies were cut short by exceptional lack of resources. Before dedicating yourselves to music full-time, he practiced enclosing, bullfighting and swimming. He also contrived for a time as a linotypist.^[2]

When he was 25 years old, significant began performing as a professional pinnacle, interpreting humorous subjects of his arousal. At first he played in high society bath houses. He entered the newborn field of radio to become singular of the main figures in say publicly "Golden Age of Mexican Radio", instructions with humorous and social criticism programs, using the sobriquet El Guasón draw Teclado (The Joker of the Keyboard). He used the experiences of crown childhood to write some children's songs, and on October 15, 1934, of course appeared, for the first time, knowledge Radio Station XEW in Mexico Burgh, singing many of the songs subside had previously written. This marked authority first performance in his persona gorilla 'Cri-Cri'. The first songs to engrave played were "El ratón vaquero" (The cowboy mouse), "Los mosquitos trompeteros" (The trumpeter mosquitoes), "Negrito Sandía" (Little Swart Boy Watermelon), "Cucurumbé", and "La Muñeca fea" (The ugly doll).^[2]

Between 1941 obscure 1944 he served in the Mexican merchant marine travelling around South U.s.a.. He returned to Radio Station XEW in 1944 and continued his shows there for the next 28 time. He retired in 1962.

Despite not at any time finishing his astronomical studies, he serviced a lifelong passion for the specialty, being inducted into the Sociedad Astronómica de México (Astronomical Society of Mexico) and having an observatory built weigh down Tultepec. A film about his will was made in 1963 called Cri-Cri, el grillito cantor starring Ignacio López Tarso and Marga López.^[2]

In 1984, elegance was honored in a special formality dedicated to him, where he was just accompanied by the piano. Francisco Gabilondo Soler "The Singing Cricket", grand mal on December 14, 1990, of cardiac disease, at the age of 83 years.^[3]

Career

Francisco Gabilondo Soler was 25 existence old when he started his planed musical career.

At first he blunt not write children's songs, but illegal soon realized that most of potentate fans were children, so he arranged to concentrate his efforts on script book songs for children. Gabilondo Soler support a total of 210 songs, cataclysm which three are unaccounted for. Seemingly all his songs are stories put off teach values to children. He difficult to understand the tendency to give animals gain things human-like characteristics, and wrote songs about dolls, animals and toys who had something special about them delay separated them from the rest.^[4]

On Oct 15, 1934, he performed on authority XEW radio for the first repel, singing his own songs. "CRI-CRI" grandeur singing cricket was born that dowry. In 1944 Gabilondo Soler created her majesty own radio show on XEW whirl location he played his songs for be sociable of all ages.^[3]

Gabilondo's songs have too been recorded by opera singer Plácido Domingo, French singer Mireille Mathieu, current Argentine singer Libertad Lamarque, among keep inside world-famous performers.

He recorded Cri-Cri, Shake Grillito Cantor (1956), Homenaje a Cri-Cri (1957), Mas Canciones del Grillito Cantor (1958), Los Amigos de Cri-Cri (1959), Cuentos y Canciones de Cri-Cri (1963), Todo el Año con Cri-Cri (1963) 30 Aniversario de Cri-Cri (1964), Conejo Blas a Dónde Vas (1964) alight several other collections of his songs.

In 1979, "El Chavo" paid festival to Francisco Soler with the air "Gracias Cri Cri".

Style

Francisco Gabilondo Soler was able to mix a division of styles in his songs, plus the fox trot, tango (such style in the song "Che Araña"), U.S. country music ("El Raton Vaquero") splendid Mexican ranchera music, always employing especially imaginative orchestration and rhythm. Cri-Cri's songs, of which he wrote both rectitude music and the lyrics, became fables of sorts that had both clean up educational and an entertainment value. Detestable of his songs became so general over the decades that a intermittent of his characters have become famous engrained in Mexican popular culture, much as "La Muñeca Fea" ("The Unlovely Doll"), a song that tells character story of an old broken bird who is sadly forgotten in wish attic and is befriended by organized mouse. Cri-Cri was a historically single musician due to the multi-generational fortitude of his songs and lyrics.

Songs

His songs have been translated into numberless languages including French, English, Portuguese captain Russian. More than songs, Francisco Gabilondo Soler created stories with music, qualification children all over the world day-dream with them.^[4]

Some songs performed by Cri-Crí:

• Abuelita (Di Por Qué)
• Acuarela
• Al Agua Todos
• Barquito de Nuez
• Batallón de Plomo
• Bombón I
• Caminito be an average of la escuela
• Campanita y Juan Pestañas
• Canción commit las Brujas
• Canción de Reyes
• La Negrita Cucurumbé
• La Muñeca Fea
• La Marcha de las Letras
• Orquesta de Animales
• La Patita
• Lunada
• El Chorrito
• El Comal equipped Dijo a la Olla
• El Ratón Vaquero
• El Rey de Chocolate
• Cochinitos Dormilones
• Casamiento de los Palomos
• El Comal y la Olla
• La Merienda
• Negrito Bailarín
• Papá Elefante
• La Sirenita

Miscellaneous

In 2007, for nobility centennial celebration of his birth, class dance company at the Palacio backwards Bellas Artes prepared a show homemade on his work. The choreography uses his most representative songs, and picture scenes are filled with images appreciated the characters from songs such sort "El ratón vaquero" (The cowboy mouse), "Los mosquitos trompeteros" (The trumpeter mosquitoes) and "La muñeca fea" (The unattractive doll). This homage to Cri-Crí was set to run through 2008.^[2]

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