Salvador Flores Rivera (January 14, 1920 – August 5, 1987), also known as Chava Flores, was a Mexican composer and singer of popular and folkloric music.[1] His songs often described the lives of Mexico City's ordinary people.
Chava Flores had many jobs since his childhood; he worked as a tailor, warehouse manager, collector, door-to-door salesman, a hardware store administrator, owner of a shirt and sausage store and a printer, among other things.[2] All of those occupations involved moving throughout the city, which was very useful when he became a composer because, he traveled to neighborhoods, streets and colonies, and witnessed various situations that would later translate into his songs. Thanks to that he was awarded the title of Cronista Cantor de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City's singing chronicler)[citation needed]
In 1946, he had to close his shirt store. With his colleagues in the hardware store, Flores began his work in a printing press; In the beginning, things worked in a regular way but, the press began to improve in 1949 when it published the magazine El Álbun de Oro de la Canción (The Golden Album of Songs).
First songsedit
Flores debuted with the song "Dos Horas de Balazos". To this song he added "La tertulia", both were recorded by RCA Victor in 1952. He acted in the tents and cabarets of the city, and gained fame in the rest of the country, in Latin America and in the United States. By 1976, he had already recorded seven full-length albums, and owned the label Ageleste.[citation needed]
Moving to Morelia and deathedit
In 1983, he moved to the city of Morelia, Michoacán, where he had a television program. The following year, he was rushed to Mexico City, and died a few days later.[citation needed]
La máscara de la muerte, 1961, dir. Zacarías Gómez Urquiza
4 hembras y un macho menos, 1979, dir. Del Tal Gomezbeck
¿A qué le tiras cuando sueñas... mexicano?, 1979, dir. Arturo Martínez
Composeredit
Mujer, así es la vida, 1980, dir. Armando Lazo (Original score by him and Amparo Ochoa)
4 hembras y un macho menos, 1979, dir. Del Tal Gomezbeck (sSábado, Distrito Federal" y "El retrato de Manuela")
Notesedit
^Zolov, Eric (2015-08-26). Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Zócalo [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Zócalo. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781610690447.
^ ab"Chava Flores fue el cronista urbano de México de la primera mitad del siglo XX". gob.mx. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
^"Chava Flores's 97th Birthday". Google. 14 January 2017.
External linksedit
Chava Flores, un sociólogo a la altura de los grandes maestros de la música, artículo del Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Biografía de Chava Flores
Biografía de Chava Flores en la Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México (SACM)
Sitio web oficial de Chava Flores y de su disquera Ageleste