Teddy Fregoso

Teddy Fregoso (born 25 December 1925) is an advertiser, writer, composer, and radio and television celebrity, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Brother of matador Carmelo Torres; father of Nathaniel Fregoso, leader of the Rock band The Blood Arm; and uncle of the cinema producer Cat Fletcher.

Bullfighter, actor and composer

At the beginning of 1940s tries the way of bullfighting getting to count itself in the roster of the novilleros, and later studies with the master Seki Sano next to legends of the performance in Mexico such as Mrs. Silvia Derbez, but its passion by music causes him to be transferred to the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City, where he is an outstanding student in composition and harmony of Rafael Hernández Marín. Since then he has registered more than 500 songs of its authorship as he says: quote|Like composer, I am charter member of the Society of Authors and Composers of Music (SACM). My first song "¿Por qué eres así? " (Why are you in that way?) was published and recorded in 1945. Charlie Zaa revived it in the 2001 and was one of "touched more" in the Hispanic radio of the United States. "Sabrás que te quiero", most well-known of my songs, counts with more than three hundred recordings than they include from Javier Solis to Placido Domingo. (note: "Sabras que te quiero", was the number one song of 1949 in Latin America, having itself made a film on the basis of that subject in the year 1958, is considered in addition one to the classic boleros of all the times)

His beginnings in the radio

By 1945, Teddy Fregoso was a recognized composer, rubbing elbows with the figures of the golden age in Mexico; Agustín Lara, Maria Felix, Cantinflas, Pedro Vargas, Jorge Negrete among others. Before the insistence of two great friends and outstanding personalities of that one time, Ricardo Lopez Méndez and Manuel Bernal, became his radio experience. In April 1945 he approved the exam by the Secretary of Communications in Mexico City and that night, at XEBS began to work in the microphones as Broadcaster continued until October 13 1946.