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Horacio Fontova died: he was 73 years old

From the Argentine Actors Association confirmed to Teleshow the death of the singer, musician, actor and composer



At 73 the musician and actor Horacio Fontova died. As you could knowTeleshow His death occurred this Monday morning at the Finochietto Sanatorium in the city of Buenos Aires, where he was fighting cancer.

"We regret to report the death of our dear colleague Horacio 'El Negro' Fontova, after fighting for years, as the warrior he always was, with an illness," they published from the Instagram account of the National Institute of Music. "For INAMU it is tremendously painful to dismiss our brother and companion from so many struggles and joys. We will never finish thanking you for your commitment to music and to just and noble causes ”.

El Negro - as he was known in the artistic medium - made a generation laugh on television with Jorge Guinzburg, and his illustrations in the magazine El Expreso Imaginario are remembered for their flight. As an actor he won two Martín Fierro with the character of Sonia Braguetti in the program Peor es nada, one as "Revelation" and the other as "Best Comic Actor". In 1998 he created and starred in the Delicatessen humor show with the cast of Diego Capusotto, Fabio Alberti and other Argentine humorists, which was broadcast on América TV.

In music, his moment of greatest exposure was with Fontova and his Nephews, in the 80s, thanks to the song "I feel good" . However, his career had started before, with bands like Patada de Mosca and Dúo Nagual, and before success he had put together Fontova and La Foca and Fontova Trío. He went through periods in which he investigated Argentine folklore, although his greatest success was achieved with Caribbean rhythms, to which he added his humor.

In an interview with Teleshow, Fontova was skeptical about current television. Unfortunately, things have changed for the worse. Notice that there are no more programs like the one we did with the beloved Guinzburg, like Olmedo, or La Nut, or the Uruguayan Telecataplum. It seems to me that it is a question of investments: today everything is reduced to the tarasca and the transa. He painted the thing like that, and a lot has changed, ”he said.



He also performed in the plays of Porteños, the Orquesta de Señoritas, Malos Habitos, among others, and by 2004 he completed the unification of his taste for theater, lyrical music, singing and humor, starring in the zarzuela La corte de Pharaoh with his interpretation of the character of Casto José, a performance that received all the applause.

In film he starred in The Return of Peter Cascada and was part of the casts of La Peste, Goodbye dear moon and Whose is the garter belt? . Along with Pedro Saborido and Coco Sily, he radioed the Codigo de Barras program on Radio La Red. In 2002 he presented Fontovarios , a musical and humorous show at the Teatro Ateneo with two invited musicians, Liliana Herrero and Daniel Melingo.

With the album Fontova-2004-NEGRO he obtained the Carlos Gardel Award 2005 in the category Best Album Artist Testimonial Song, and presented it at the Alvear Theater along with José Ríos on bass, Martín González on drums, and guest artists: Lito Vitale, León Gieco, Skay Beilinson, Liliana Herrero, Peteco Carabajal, Liliana Vitale, Martín Bianchedi, Gerardo Gardelín, Richard Nant, Hugo Newman, Daniel Melingo, Daniel Maza, Esteban Morgado and Juan Belvis. In 2005 his first book of short stories Tempera Mental was published by Editorial Sudamericana.

In 2006, with his new band, together with Peteco Carabajal he presented Peteco-Fontova at La Trastienda. In 2010 he returned to his musical origins and as a soloist, he honored great authors of universal music with new compositions. In that same year, he acted in the film Aballay, the man without fear directed by Fernando Spiner. And in 2013 it was part of the first Argentine 3D animated film, Metegol , directed by Juan José Campanella.

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The unpublished photo of Luis Miguel's youth: “El Burro” Van Rankin revealed it

The presenter of “Hoy” shared an image on Instagram of his years of friendship with Luis Miguel



To congratulate Luis Miguel on his 50th birthday , presenter Jorge “El Burro” Van Rankin shared an unpublished photo of both on his Instagram account .

This Sunday , April 19, "El Sol" reached half a century of life and, as expected, the issue became a trend on social networks in Mexico.

Van Rankin, a member of Televisa's Hoy program , could not miss the date and congratulated his friend.
"El Burro" uploaded a photo to Instagram in which Luis Miguel appeared smiling with the presenter.

"Congratulations Mikey! 50 years, spend little mother! ” Van Rankin wrote to accompany the publication that was celebrated by his followers.

It is not the first time that "El Burro" shares an unpublished photo of his years of friendship with "El Sol".

Last March another image was uploaded in which they posed with other men in a pool.



"The true protagonists of Luis Miguel" , wrote Van Rankin about the image and in relation to the famous series of the singer, where his daily life was portrayed together with his group of friends.

The celebration of Luis Miguel

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the magazine Hello !, Luis Miguel did not plan to hold any special celebration.

"He celebrates his lonely birthday confined to his yacht, in Miami, away from Mollie, his family and friends, " said the magazine in its latest issue.

The friendship of Luis Miguel and "El Burro"

On several occasions Van Rankin has spoken about how close he was to the singer at some time, but also about the abrupt way in which their friendship ended.

In an interview for the "A Corazón Abierto" section of the "Hoy" program, he recalled how he met Luis Miguel in the 1980s.

It was during a trip to Ixtapa that he was invited by Federico de la Madrid (son of the then Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid).

"He played me with Luis Miguel in the room and I liked him very much ... I began to frequent him to go on tours with him ... He played me with Luis Miguel in the room and I liked him very well ... What he lacked is a person to accompany him, to be like his accomplice ”.




But their friendship ended the day he decided to play a prank on Luis Miguel's manager, because hours later the singer communicated, furious, with him to cry out for him: "Your jokes ... don't mess with me."

Van Rankin replied: "Hey, I'm your friend huh. I am neither your employee nor your fan, I am your friend. And I'm never going to make you look bad, ever, and you know I love you very much. And it's not worth it that they've put shit in your head and you're yelling at me. ' We hang up, we stop talking for 22 years. ”

His reunion occurred when the series of Luis Miguel and Miguel Alemán Magnani, a friend of both and one of the producers, was already invited to participate in a cameo.

“I hug like this for two minutes… a real hug, sincere, and I said to him: 'why are you like this? What did I do to you? We were dying of laughter, ”Van Rankin recalled of the moment they met again.

"I was excited, I am honest, yes I was excited because he is a friend that I admire, as he sings, he is a friend who was my soul brother, he knows a lot about me and I know about him," he added in the same interview.

In a more recent interview, “El Burro” revealed how he got Luis Miguel women after his concerts.

“He would give me my badge all access in Argentina and I would come out as Rey Pelé and I would tell him, organize some girls for later here at the hotel and he would say 'let's see, asshole *, I can't flirt and sing. You bring an all access badge, '”Van Rankin recalled amused on Members On Air.

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