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About Silvestre Vargas
- Silvestre Vargas (31 December, 1901 – October 7, 1985, Guadalajara) was a Mexican mariachi musician.
- In 1928, he became the leader of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, an ensemble from Jalisco begun by his father in 1898.
- In the 1930s the group moved to Mexico City, and Vargas, along with Rubén Fuentes, became pivotal composers in the evolution of the genre.
- Silvestre and the Mariachi Vargas made dozens of recordings and starred in many films through the 1960s.
- He died in 1985, and his gravesite became a popular site for pilgrimages on the date of his death.
- In 1997, a museum dedicated to Silvestre was established in Jalisco.
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