The National Cineteca celebrated the hundred years of its birth with a cycle of its films, like “The three García” (1946), “The black sheep” (1949), “Two types of care” (1952), “ATM A all machine! ” (1951) to be exhibited from November 21 to 30. The exhibition “Forever, Pedro Infante” represents a sensitive tribute to a prominent artist of our filmic and musical heritage, who recorded his indelible mark on the social imaginary and the hearts of Mexicans, “said Lidia Camacho, director of the National Institute of Fine arts. The centenary of the “idol of Guamuchil”, the city in which he spent his childhood, was joined by cultural authorities with an exhibition of photographs of the actor in the Metro Bellas Artes gallery in Mexico City. Throughout the day, hundreds of followers took flowers and sang their songs before the tomb of Pedro Infante in a pantheon of Mexico City where he was buried after his death on Apin a plane crash that he manned.
José Manuel, grandson of the singer and son of Pedro Infante Jr, arrived at the Basilica accompanied by dozens of fans of the “immortal” Mexican singer for the Mass celebrated with the mariachi “Alma de México” in charge of the religious chants. Mexico commemorated today the centenary of the birth of the actor and singer Pedro Infante, the idol that 60 years after his death remains in force in the Mexican imagination with 61 films and 430 songs.Ī mass in the old Basilica of Guadalupe attended by his grandson José Manuel Infante, and a river of followers who came to his tomb to sing his songs marked the centenary of the singer born on Novemin Mazatlán, state Northwest of Sinaloa.