Tito Guizar

The first Spanish-speaking singing cowboy on the big screen in Hollywood, Tito Guizar was Mexico's answer to Gene Autry, and rated highly enough to make movies alongside Roy Rogers. In Mexico, however, he was an even bigger star, attracting legions of young women in a manner akin to Frank Sinatra, and later becoming virtually a media institution as a film and television star and songwriter as well as singer. Born Federico Arturo Guizar Tolentino to a conservative Catholic family in Guadalajara, he studied singing over the objections of his father. In 1929, at the age of 20, wi...