Fernando Delgadillo is a Latin American musician and composer. He is considered a major representative of the Folk music genre in Mexico.

Biography

In 1986, he begins to perform in "El sapo Cancionero," a place in Mexico City that attracts little known folk singers. In 1988, he becomes a regular performer.

In 1989, along with other musicians and writers, he creates SEIMUS, which stands for "Sociedad de Escritores y Músicos Urbanos Subterraneos" (Society of Underground Urban Musicians and Writers).

In 1990, SEIMUS records a home made tape, and in the same year he tapes another two named "Fernando Delgadillo" and "La Cancion Informal" (Informal Song). in 1991 he records two more tapes. By 1992, he records his first CD, "Con cierto aire a ti"(With a certain air of you).

He keeps recording a number of records and in 1997 he travels to the Beijing International Television Festival, as the only Spanish-speaking singer, and some of his songs are translated into Chinese.

Delgadillo was also invited to the "Youth Festival" in Cuba

Cuba

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, and in 1998, he presented his first CD in front of a major audience in the Metropolitan Theater in Mexico City. Later on, he played alongside Cuban musician Silvio Rodriguez

Silvio Rodríguez

Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement.He is considered Cuba's best known folk singer and known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as Ojalá, Playa Girón, Unicornio and...

during his Mexican tour in the National Auditorium.

Later on, he records in Spain a compilation of his work.

Currently, he plays in major Mexican theaters in a monthly basis.

Topics

He mostly writes about everyday happenings, he's been often called the creator of an "informal" kind of songwriting. He is a master of metaphors and deals with topics such as nature, the longing of someone special, birthday gifts, popcorn fights, hot phonecalls, etc. He specializes in describing the extraordinary out of something very ordinary.

Selected discography

• Con cierto aire a ti (Fernando Delgadillo) [1993]
• Crónicas de Bruno del Breñal (Fernando Delgadillo) [1994]
• Desviaciones de la canción informal (Fernando Delgadillo) [1994]
• De vuelos y de sol (Fernando Delgadillo) [1995]
• Primer estrella de la tarde (Fernando Delgadillo) [1997]
• Entre pairos y derivas (Fernando Delgadillo) [1998]
• Hoy ten miedo de mí (Fernando Delgadillo) [1998]
• De vuelos y de sol (remaster) (Fernando Delgadillo) [1999]
• Febrero 13 (Volumen 1) (Fernando Delgadillo) [1999]
• Febrero 13 (Volumen 2) (Fernando Delgadillo) [2000]
• Febrero 13 (Volumen 3) [Web Only] (Fernando Delgadillo) [2000]
• Campo de sueños (Fernando Delgadillo) [2001]
• Variaciones de la canción informal (Fernando Delgadillo) [2004]
• Matutina (Fernando Delgadillo) [2004]
• Parque Naucalli (Fernando Delgadillo) [2006]
• Desde la Isla del olvido (Fernando Delgadillo) [2009]

External links

• Fernando Delgadillo's News, music and lyrics (in Spanish)