Néstor Mesta Chayres

Néstor Mesta Chayres ( Nestor Chayres ; born February 26, 1908 in Ciudad Lerdo , † June 29, 1971 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican singer (tenor), who was known as El gitano De México .

Chayres studied solfège, harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City and was a singing student of Lamberto Castañeros . He made his debut at the age of twenty-one at the Anfiteatro “Bolívar” of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and gained the attention of conductors such as Gonzalo Guevara and Mario Ruiz Armengol . He appeared in 1930 on the radio station XEB with an orchestra under the direction of Armengol and made his first tour of Mexico.

In 1933 he performed in Havana with the pianist and composer Jorge del Moral , and the following year he recorded his first record with the Pasodobles Morena by Jorge del Moral and Rocío by Alfonso Esparza Oteo . In 1942 he was honored as the best singer in Mexico at Mario Moreno's Teatro Follies . In 1943 he gave a recital at the Palacio de Bellas Artes , accompanied by the Orquesta Sinfónica de México . In 1945 he made his debut at New York Town Hall and performed at Carnegie Hall on a Night of the Américas with the New York Philharmonic under Alfredo Antonini .

Appearances in Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile and the Dominican Republic followed. With Manuel de Falla he studied his Canciones Populares in Argentina . In 1949 he visited Spain, France, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and England on a European tour. The following year he went on another tour through the USA and Canada. He then returned to Mexico and performed there with the Gonzalo Cervera orchestra . At La Voz Dominicana he performed in 1953 with Chabela Durán , Tito Guízar , Ruth Fernández , Fernando Fernández , Fernando Albuerne and Toña la Negra and in 1955 with María Antonieta Pons , María Luisa Landín , María Elena Márquez , Amalia Mendoza , Nicolás Urcelay , Luis Aguilar , Luis Arcaraz and his orchestra, Flor Silvestre and Fernando Fernández.

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SURNAME	Chayres, Néstor Mesta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chayres, Néstor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	mexican singer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ciudad Lerdo
DATE OF DEATH	June 29, 1971
Place of death	Mexico city