In Mexico City, he sang the songs of composers including Alberto Cervantes, José Alfredo Jiménez, Cuco Sánchez, Tomás Méndez, Rubén Fuentes, (some of the most renowned composers from the golden age of Mexican Cinema) Salvador Flores Rivera (Chava Flores) (better known for his humorous songs), René Touzet and others. The following week they allowed him to audition again, this time being hired to sing three times a week on the air. Ernesto Belloc who was the station's artistic director at the time, advised him that he had better continue his career as a carpenter as Infante had been nervous during the audition.
In 1938, at the age of 21, he auditioned for a position at the radio station XEB with Julián Morán accompanying him on piano. According to her memoir Pedro Infante en la intimidad conmigo (1961) ( Pedro Infante in intimacy with me), she convinced him of the need to move to Mexico City to find better career opportunities in radio. His wife, María Luisa León, who died of cardiac arrest on 27 October 1978, was somewhat well-off, economically. In 1937 he became part of the Orquesta Estrella de Culiacán (Culiacán Star Orchestra), as a singer as well as violinist and drummer, for a year and a half. In addition, he won a charro suit in an amateur contest at the Colonial Theater, singing Vereda Tropical. He managed to learn strings, wind, and percussion instruments in a short time, having received music lessons from Carlos R.
As a teen, Infante showed talent and affection for music, and even made his own guitar in a carpenter shop, played in the Luis Ibarra Orchestra led by his father, and formed his own band called La Rabia (The Anger) in 1933. In 1920 they moved to El Rosario, Sinaloa. Although the Infante Cruz family stayed for some time at Mazatlán, in early 1919 they moved to Guamúchil. He was the third of fifteen children, of whom nine survived. Pedro Infante was the son of Delfino Infante García (24 December 1880 – 17 March 1955), who played the double bass in a band, and Maria del Refugio Cruz Aranda.
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For his performance in the movie Tizoc, he was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actor posthumously at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. His film career began in 1939 with him appearing in more than 60 films – 30 of them with his brother Ángel Infante, and starting in 1943 he recorded over 350 songs. His remains were later identified by a gold bracelet that was found. He died on 15 April 1957 in Mérida, Yucatán, in a plane crash during a flight en route to Mexico City, after an engine failed on takeoff. Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and raised in nearby Guamúchil. Pedro Infante Cruz ( Spanish: 18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a popular Mexican actor and ranchera singer, whose career spanned over two decades, and whose fame and popularity also spread to other Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala and Peru, having appeared in multiple movies during the golden age of Mexican cinema.
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