Javier Solis: describing fear and solitude with elegant detachment

“Bolero-ranchero singer Javier Solis doesn’t get the spotlight and credit, by comparison, that ranchera greats Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete do in TV specials or history books. Yet, he is an indisputable part of Mexico’s famed tres gallos.

Solis lived in the same era as the other two but at the beginning he remained in the shadows. His rise to fame began in the late ’50s, almost a decade after Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema had peaked.”

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