Fernández passed away after his respiratory condition worsened, his family confirmed. But last Friday one of his sons and a doctor told the Mexican newspaper Reforma that the singer had been admitted to hospital again in critical condition with pneumonia. After several days of observation in a Guadalajara hospital, Fernández was discharged and able to return home. That month, his family confirmed through the singer’s official Instagram account that he was in a serious condition following a fall at his ranch “that caused a spinal cord trauma at the cervical spine level.” The medical team that operated on Fernández kept his fans up to date regarding his health – he was placed on ventilatory support and required a tube to be fed – over the following weeks via social media. For his millions of fans in Latin America, the mournful moment to cry for the king had arrived.įernández had been under medical care since August. On Sunday, at the age of 81, the seminal voice of Mexican mariachi music – one of the greatest in the history of the genre, alongside Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís – passed away.
“But the day that I die, I know you’ll have to cry cry and cry.” Vicente Fernández, one of the most influential of Mexico’s ranchero singers, has sung this line from the song El Rey (or, The King), hundreds of times.
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