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Felipe Valdés Leal

Felipe Valdés Leal is credited on 435 albums across 1,631 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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435

Albums

1,631

Pressings

Decades active

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Biography

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Mexican composer, b. Saltillo, Coahuila, 6 August 1899 - d. Cuernavaca, Morelos,17 August 1988.
In 1923 he moved to Los Angeles, California, to work in a record store. He would hum and whistle, and used this to compose his first song, "Échale un Quinto al Piano." Shortly afterwards he wrote the corrido "Lucio Vázquez", also known as "Los Pavos Reales." In 1925, he became artistic director at the Brunswick Record Corp., in Los Angeles, from where he strongly promoted the diffusion of ranchera music, when discovering and supporting artists like Javier Solís, Irma Serrano, Los Panchos (brought to Mexico directly from New York), Las Hermanas Huerta, Los Alegres de Terán, and Las Hermanas Padilla.
Notable compositions: “Besos de Papel”, “Entre Copa y Copa”, “El Ausente”, “Hace un Año”, “Mis Ojos Me Denuncian", “Mi Ranchito”, “Mi Destino Fue Quererte”, “Rosita Alvirez”, “Tú, Sólo Tú”, “Veinte Años”.

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