Nicolás Urcelay

Nicolás Urcelay Alonzo (born December 20, 1919 in Mérida , † July 1, 1959 in Tampico ) was a Mexican singer.

Life

Urcelay had piano lessons from the age of five and sang as a soloist in the church choir of his home parish, but had no systematic vocal training. In 1939 he came to Mexico City and worked there as a bank clerk. He was also a singing student of Isabel Sandoval de Grisi . He made his debut as a singer in 1942 with Radio Mil and worked from 1943 first as a choir singer, then promoted by Adolfo López Llera as tenor soloist in the program Operetas y Zarzuelas of the XEW station.

In 1945 he became the singer of the program La Hora Nacional , the following year he made his first recordings at RCA Victor, including Perjura and Las Violetas by Miguel Lerdo de Tejada . In 1947 he performed at the Palacio de Bellas Artes , sang in Washington before President Harry S. Truman and gave a concert with the orchestra of Xavier Cugat at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in front of thirty thousand listeners .

Concert tours followed in 1948 through Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Panama and Costa Rica. In 1951 he worked on Roberto Gavaldón's film Deseada with Dolores del Río and Jorge Mistral and sang songs by Guty Cárdenas . Between 1953 and 1958 he recorded more than seventy songs, including Martha , Peregrina , Granada , Mujer , Cuerdas de mi guitarra , Alma mía , Te quiero dijiste , Cuando me vaya , El caminante del Mayab and Yukalpetén , and the writer José Díaz Bolio called him Caruso del Mayab . In the series del recuerdo , Sony Music released a digitized new edition of its seven albums, which were created from 1953 onwards. Urcelay died in 1959 at the age of thirty-nine from complications from a stroke.

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personal data
SURNAME	Urcelay, Nicolás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Urcelay Alonzo, Nicolás (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	mexican singer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mérida (Mexico)
DATE OF DEATH	July 1, 1959
Place of death	Tampico