Francisco Gabilondo Soler

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José Francisco Gabilondo Soler (Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico, October 6, 1907-Texcoco, State of Mexico, December 14, 1990), commonly known by his stage name Cri -Cri, the Grillito Cantor, was a Mexican singer-songwriter of children's music, famous for presenting for many years a radio program on XEW, still located on City Hall street in the historic center of Mexico City, focused on children, for which he created the character Cri Cri, the singing cricket. His songs are famous in Mexico and Latin America and have been translated into different languages. He is considered one of the best singer-songwriters of children's music in Mexico and Latin America. He was the founder of the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico.

Biography

Childhood

House where Francisco Gabilondo Soler was born, in Orizaba, Veracruz. He placed a statue of his character Cri-Cri, in front of the square of his home in his memory.

He was the eldest son of Emilia Soler Fernández, daughter of Catalan and Malaga native, and of Tiburcio Gabilondo Goya, of Basque origin, who was the son of José Antonio Soler, a Spanish colonel who traveled to the city of Orizaba in 1862 His full name was José Francisco Gabilondo Soler, he was born on October 6, 1907 in Orizaba, Veracruz, where he grew up until 1929, this being a typical mountain city, between hills, rain, forests and springs; the latter would be fundamental in his songs.

In 1914, the first leader of the Mexican Revolution Venustiano Carranza was in Veracruz to reorganize his army in the fight against Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, at a time that was somewhat difficult for the family. When he was 10 years old, his little brothers died, his parents divorced and he lived in boarding schools until he made the decision to stay with his father. He was fond of learning, and learned everything he could, especially geography, mathematics, astronomy, stories, and music. These last two he learned better, so he combined them in different sizes and shapes. He ended up working as a composer. School bored him, so he only attended the sixth grade of basic education. He liked to read the works of Hans Christian Andersen, de Hauff, Jules Verne and Emilio Salgari.[citation needed ]

After finishing primary school, he continued with a self-taught education, covering mathematics, geography, history and universal literature as topics. He practiced various sports including boxing, swimming and bullfighting, in which he received the nickname The Student. He took a linotypist course in New Orleans in 1926, and another in celestial navigation by correspondence from Maryland, United States, but his great passions were astronomy and music, which is why he was able to master the piano.[citation required]

Youth

He began his career as a composer in the late twenties, when he was still living in Orizaba, Veracruz, his native place. He composed rhythms such as tango, fox trot and danzón: his first works disappeared for several decades, but the Fundación Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Cri Cri, A. C., has rescued all the works created between 1926 and 1930. The themes rescued are: "International love", "It seems strange", "Madrid", "Tips", "Love date" and "The Gunmen".[citation needed]

He arrived in Mexico City in 1928 in search of fulfilling his dream of studying. He entered the National Conservatory as a volunteer, but left it shortly after, due to lack of resources. [citation needed ]

He married very young, in May 1927, almost finishing his adolescence and at the insistence of Rosario Patiño Domínguez, his wife, whom he met in Orizaba, he settled in Mexico City. His first children were Jorge Gabilondo Patiño and Diana Gabilondo Patiño, who were the first children to know the music of Grillito Cantor; Francisco Gabilondo saw in his eyes and smiles if the pieces composed by him were to his liking. His youngest daughter, Diana, was very close to him. Although his greatest passion was always astronomy (he donated a telescope to the National Observatory), music was the path that led him to stardom.

The radio

Cri-Cri, El Grillito Cantor

In 1932, he ventured into radio station XYZ with a humorous and socially critical program, for which he earned the nickname The Keyboard Joker. Later, Othón Vélez gave him an opportunity to present songs for children; at the request of Rosario Patiño, who represented Francisco Gabilondo, to be an official in the XEW. So, on October 15, 1934, he started a 15-minute program -without sponsors or publicity- and so on XEW La Catedral del Radio stories about animals and other characters were told. This program was prior to La hora azul, starring Agustín Lara and Pedro Vargas. At the suggestion of Mr. Vélez himself, he adopted the name Cri-Crí: El Grillito Cantor . The songs he performed during that first broadcast were El Chorrito , Batallón de Plomo , Bombón I and El Ropero . The program was on the air for 27 years, and its last broadcast was on July 30, 1961.

Astronomy

He joined the Mexican Astronomical Society (SAM) as an active member on October 31, 1951; He built an observatory in the town of Tultepec (north of Mexico City) for amateur astronomers to practice. Subsequently, he ceded those facilities to the SAM About this passion he expressed:

"I liked to read the books of Salgari, of Verne..., wanted to be like [a] pirate of Salgari; those pirates I saw them very good, very generous and even kind... and so I wanted to be, a pirate... but a pirate had to know the seas..., and the geography, to travel the world... He had to study the stars, so how to orient himself in the sea without knowing the constellations? It was necessary to study cosmography and also arithmetic and geometry, because things are done on the basis of sufficient preparation. He wanted everything, astronomer, geographer, engineer... [...] We were seven [friends of a school] to whom, believing to be already wise, we got the idea of meeting the Tacubaya Observatory, not as simple visitors, but to let us use the instruments to discover other planets, comets, and many nebulae... Don Joaquín Gallo had the patience to tolerate our desire and taught us things about the Observatory, but he also gave us some examination with which we taught copper and we no longer came out of there so sure of our worth. However, we returned, and although kindly we were allowed to enter the premises, we could only put our nose, not our talent. In the observatory we were known as the Seven Sages of de ... »

In the mid-1970s, to avoid the urban environment, he decided to retire to the town of San Miguel Tocuila, near Texcoco, where he had a house built with a certain resemblance to the one he had in his childhood. Despite the effects of age and visual limitations, he continued to devote himself to astronomy with a telescope and binoculars, mathematical calculations, and, except in his last days, reading.

Death

House where Francisco Gabilondo Soler died in Texcoco, in the state of Mexico.

Francisco Gabilondo Soler died of cardiovascular disease in the municipality of Texcoco, in the state of Mexico, on December 14, 1990, at the age of 83. His remains were deposited in the Pantheon of Orizaba along with those of his grandfather.

Cinema

In 1963, the film Cri Cri, the singing cricket was released, starring Ignacio López Tarso and Marga López, about the life of Francisco Gabilondo from a young age, when he lived with his grandmother, until his last years, in which he no longer did his program. The film performs various songs written by him, and also includes a sequence animated by Walt Disney for the song Los Cochinitos Sleepyheads.[citation required]

Discography

Some of his released albums were:

  • Cri-Cri, El Grillito Cantor (1956)
  1. Cri-Cri topic (Entrada)
  2. Rain
  3. School walk
  4. The phone
  5. Dance of the dolls
  6. Clothing
  7. Gato de barrio
  8. The doggy
  9. Guacamaya
  10. Russian
  11. My donkey.
  12. Vals del Rey
  13. Song of witches
  14. Item of Cri Cri (Salida)
  • Tribute to Cri-Cri (1957)
  1. Cri (Entry)
  2. March of letters
  3. Cowboy
  4. The duck
  5. Cucurumbé
  6. Sleepy pigs
  7. The Comal and the pot
  8. March of marbles
  9. Medrous Tango
  10. Bombon I
  11. Vals del trompo
  12. The ghost
  13. Sunny fuck.
  14. Theme of Cri (Salida)
  • More Songs of the Cantor Grillito (1958)
  1. Cri-Crime (Entry)
  2. The chorrito
  3. The closet
  4. Shoe party
  5. The ugly doll
  6. The burrito
  7. The Dance Negrito
  8. Say why
  9. Che... spider
  10. The snack
  11. Jorobita
  12. The maquinita
  13. The horsemen
  14. Item of Cri Cri (Salida)
  • The Friends of Cri-Cri (1959)
  1. Cri-Crime (Entry)
  2. The black watermelon
  3. Carrusel
  4. The deer
  5. Lunada
  6. Jota de la jota
  7. Chong-Ki-Fu
  8. The cyclist goat
  9. Marriage of the doves
  10. Marina
  11. How's he doing?
  12. Gallegada
  13. Dad elephant
  14. Theme of Cri Cri
  • Tales and Songs of Cri-Cri (1963)
  • All Year with Cri-Cri (1963)
  1. The coconut
  2. Dog school
  3. To the water all
  4. Trompet mosquitoes
  5. Rainfall
  6. The chair
  7. Ojitos de cascabel
  8. The calendar
  9. Good night
  10. Mexican Pastorela
  11. Crystal Lake
  12. The Magi
  13. Item of Cri Cri (Salida)
  • 30 Anniversary of Cri-Cri (1964)
  1. Cri-Crime (Entry)
  2. Lead battalion
  3. The blur
  4. The watch
  5. The carpenter cat
  6. Cute music
  7. Bakery rabbits
  8. Poor Cu-U
  9. The animal orchestra
  10. Gardening chicks
  11. The tourist rabbit
  12. Granny
  13. Raton firefighters
  14. Item of Cri Cri (Salida)
  • Rabbit Blas where you go (1964)
  1. Cri-Crime (Entry)
  2. The hunt
  3. The travel cotorra
  4. Two Mayaates
  5. Clarincito
  6. The Coke
  7. Parade of the Cupids
  8. Little strollers
  9. The beebee muster
  10. The hairdresser
  11. Frying types
  12. The sick bunny
  13. The dwarf bullfighters
  14. Item of Cri Cri (Salida)
  • The Essential of Cri-Cri (2007)

Sony-BMG reissued the Cri-Crí catalogue, and included the first DVD of the Teatro de la Foresta, with which children can experience Cri-Crí's music like karaoke.

CD 1

  1. Cri-Crime (entry)
  2. The duck
  3. The ugly doll
  4. School walk
  5. The closet
  6. Sleepy pigs
  7. Negrito watería
  8. The ghost
  9. Song of witches
  10. The burrito
  11. Medrous Tango
  12. Shoe party
  13. Animal orchestra
  14. Trompet mosquitoes
  15. The pot and the comal
  16. Water girl.
  17. March of marbles
  18. Dad elephant
  19. How you doing!
  20. Gato de barrio
  21. Campanita and Juan Pestaña

CD 2

  1. Cowboy
  2. Cucurumbé
  3. The chorrito
  4. The clotheskeeper
  5. Say why
  6. The dwarf bullfighters
  7. The horsemen
  8. Jorobita
  9. The guacamaya
  10. Vals del trompo
  11. The coconut
  12. Poor thing.
  13. The beebee muster
  14. Little strollers
  15. Rain
  16. March of letters
  17. The doggy
  18. The cyclist goat
  19. The snack
  20. Che spider
  21. Cri-Crime (exit)

CD 3 (interactive DVD with 12 tracks illustrated in 3D)

  1. Cri-Crime (entry) (DVD)
  2. District Cat (DVD)
  3. Ratoncitos walkers (DVD)
  4. Chacho boy (DVD)
  5. Fire mice (DVD)
  6. The carpenter cat (DVD)
  7. The ugly doll (DVD)
  8. The Doggie (DVD)
  9. Spider-Man (DVD)
  10. Types of cold (DVD)
  11. School walk (DVD)
  12. Doggie School (DVD)
  13. Cowboy Mouse (DVD)
  14. Bemol Sun Jumper (DVD)

Songs

Some of the best known and remembered songs by Cri-Crí are:

  • Granny (1936)
  • Acuarela (1942)
  • All water (1935)
  • Barquito de nuez (1936)
  • Lead battalion (1934)
  • Dance of the dolls
  • Bombon I (1934)
  • Caminito de la escuela (1934)
  • Campanita-Juan Pestañas (1936)
  • Witch Song (1935)
  • Carrusel (1942)
  • Casamiento de los palomos (1935)
  • Blue Castle (1953)
  • Chacho boy (1942)
  • Ché Araña (1942)
  • Chinese (1942)
  • Chong Ki Fu (1934)
  • Chonita (1945)
  • Clarincito (1936)
  • Cleta Dominga (1945)
  • Cochecito de Música (1935)
  • Sleepy pigs (1935)
  • Cocuyito beacho (1935)
  • How's he doing? (1945)
  • Bakery rabbits (1935)
  • Choir of the Chicharras (1936)
  • Cucurumbé (1936)
  • Cupids Parade (1936)
  • Say Why? (1938)
  • Two Mayas (1934)
  • The beebee muster
  • The Doll Dance
  • The bench
  • The blur
  • The witch
  • The burrito
  • The calendar
  • The cyclist goat
  • The chorrito
  • The comal and the pot
  • The sick rabbit
  • The tourist rabbit
  • Rabbit Blas
  • The ghost
  • The neighborhood cat
  • The jicote aguamielero
  • The black watermelon
  • The duck's coming.
  • The hairdresser
  • The doggy
  • The watch
  • The clotheskeeper
  • The cowboy mouse
  • The closet
  • The chair
  • Juan Pestañas
  • The march of the marbles
  • The march of the letters
  • The march of the crickets
  • The snack
  • The ugly doll
  • The bold cucurumbé
  • The duck
  • The sirenite
  • The horsemen
  • The sleeping pigs
  • The dwarf bullfighters
  • The fire mice
  • Dreams
  • Metetete Teté
  • My friend Hans
  • Minuet of birds
  • Trompet mosquitoes
  • Dancer Negrito
  • Ojitos de cascabel
  • Animal orchestra
  • Dad elephant
  • Pinpon
  • Poor cucumber.
  • Gardening chickens
  • Little strollers
  • Russian
  • Plumbing
  • Medrous Tango
  • Rainfall
  • Frying types

He composed 263 pieces, although the SACM has only registered 228 of the pieces. The Francisco Gabilondo Soler Foundation, Cri Cri, A.C., preserves 33 pieces composed between 1926 and 1930 and two more in the 1960s The brothers Andrea Gabilondo, Francisco Gabilondo, Tiburcio Gabilondo and Flor Gabilondo, through the company Gabsol, S.A de C.V., manage the copyright of the work in the catalog of the imaginary character Cri-Cri. The name Francisco Gabilondo Soler is a registered trademark owned by the Francisco Gabilondo Soler Foundation, Cri Cri, A.C., a non-profit association represented by Carmen Vizcayno de Gabilondo and Oscar Gabilondo, responsible for conserving, by sole right of Jorge Gabilondo Patiño, the historical archive and the thought of Francisco Gabilondo Soler, legacy of the Gabilondo family.

Posts

  • Gabilondo Soler, Francisco; Cri (1994). Tales for singing and songs to read. Mexico City: SEP. ISBN 1789.624 G64.
  • Gabilondo Soler, Francisco; Prol. De la Colina, José et al. (2004). Complete Songs of Francisco Gabilondo Soler. Mexico: Clío SEP. ISBN 1782.42083 G32.
  • Gabilondo Soler, Gerardo García Pérez (2015, first edition). Francisco Gabilondo Soler, his work and passions, a heritage for Mexico. Mexico: Fundación Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Cri-Cri; A.C. ISBN 978-607-96973-0-3.
  • Gabilondo Soler, Gerardo García Pérez (2016, second edition). Francisco Gabilondo Soler, his work and passions, a heritage for Mexico. Mexico: Fundación Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Cri-Cri; A.C. ISBN 978-607-8389-09-4.
  • Gabilondo Soler, Elvira García (1982, first edition). De Lunas Garapiñadas. Mexico. Radio Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Gabilondo Soler, Elvira García (2017, third edition). Garapiñadas Moons; Opening Memory. Mexico. Fundación Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Cri-Cri; A.C. ISBN 978-607-96973-1-0.

Legacy

Monument to Cri-Cri, in Merida, Yucatan.

In 1973, Gaby, Fofó, Miliki and Fofito, the Tele Clowns (Aragón brothers), published on their album Había una vez un circo a version of Gabilondo Soler's hit Nutshell boat. Later it would also be sung by Miliki and his daughter Rita Irasema.

In 1979, in the Mexican series El Chavo, a song was created in homage to Francisco Gabilondo Soler, titled "Gracias Cri Crí", written by Roberto Gómez Bolaños and which it has been recorded and re-recorded years later.

In 1980, the clowns Gaby, Miliki, Fofito and Milikito published on their album Singing, always singing a version of another hit by Gabilondo Soler La Marcha de las Letras.

In the 1980s, an LP was released where the singers Emmanuel, Plácido Domingo and Mireille Mathieu performed a selection of songs originally recorded by Soler.

In 1980, in Spain, the artist Juan Pardo produced the album Cosas de niños in which Eva Cortés, Mocedades, Miguel Bosé, Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel performed songs by Cri-Crí and the Rincón Brothers.[citation required]

In 1982, the group Timbiriche included in their release album the song "Madley de Cri Cri", which included as a medley the songs "El chorrito", "The Sleepy Little Pigs", "La Patita", "El Ropero" and "Say why".

In 1992, the Mexican rock band El Tri recorded a tribute song to Cri Cri titled Cuando Canta El Grillo. This song appears on the album Indocumentado, by El Tri. Written by vocalist Alejandro Lora and [ex]drummer Pedro Martínez, it includes a line that says "When I hear cri cri sing, my heart is happy... it is filled with inspiration, when I hear cri cri sing, I I feel like a kid again".[citation needed]

Between 1994 and 2008, Professor Vicente Valdés Bejarano translated 16 Cri Cri songs into Esperanto. He is the only Mexican to date who has translated an important collection of Francisco Gabilondo Soler's songs and other traditional Mexican melodies into this language.[citation required]

In the Latin dubbing of one of the episodes of the series Drake and Josh, actors Josh Peck and Jerry Trainor sing the song "El Chorrito".[ citation required]

In 2007, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Francisco Gabilondo Soler and with the consent of GABSOL, S.A. de C.V., the actor and storyteller Mario Iván Martínez released a compact disc entitled Descubriendo a Cri-Cri. Said record work resulted in the creation of a theatrical proposal of the same name. Since then, the actor has consistently spread the work of Grillito Cantor. In October 2017, Mario Iván Martínez premiered Let all dreams be left open, the second record and theatrical tribute to Cri-Cri, which commemorates the 110th anniversary of the birth of the famous musician born in Orizaba.[citation required]

In 2023 the Spanish musician José Riaza includes a version of La muñeca fea in his album Tribulaciones del éxito relativo.

National tribute

In 2007, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francisco Gabilondo was celebrated, for which various tributes were paid to him at the national level, especially in Mexico City and in his hometown, Orizaba, Veracruz.[ citation required]

During the 1968 student movement, students sang the song Abuelita, insulting President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz: “Say why, tell me Gustavo, tell me why you are a coward, tell me why you don't have a mother Gustavo tell me why.

On February 5, 1989, the Alcanfores Park was inaugurated in the city of Querétaro, Querétaro, by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. This park shelters the collection of monuments dedicated to the songs of Francisco Gabilondo Soler Cri-Cri, among which Cric-Cri the cricket, El Ratón Vaquero and the Three Little Pigs stand out among others, highlighting the construction of a life-size church for the diorama of the marriage of the pigeons.[citation required]

From October 9 to 20, 2007, at the Juan Rulfo Cultural Center, in the Benito Juárez delegation of Mexico City, an exhibition entitled “100 Years 100 Photos” was set up with 116 unpublished photographs of the many facets of Francisco Gabilondo Soler, as a father, sailor, astronomer, boxer and those he took as a photographer, as well as a children's painting workshop and musical concerts.

On October 11, 2007, the Mexican Postal Service issued commemorative stamp sheets with his image, that of “Cri Crí” and some of his characters from the songs.

On October 15, 2007, a bust, created by the sculptor Humberto Peraza, was unveiled in honor of Francisco Gabilondo Soler, the singing cricket Cri Crí, in the Plaza de los Compositores, where it appears written:

"He was born on October 6, 1907 and died on December 14, 1990." “Compositor, astronomer, sportsman, seaman, travel man and books in a free, intelligent and honest spirit”

In this tribute, as part of the centenary of his birth, Álex Lora performed “Cuando canta el grillo”, a song he had composed in his honor.

In the Naucalli park, in the municipality of Naucalpan, state of Mexico, in October 2007, a tribute monument to Francisco Gabilondo was inaugurated, in which he is shown playing a violin and on his shoulder the little Cri Cri Crí cricket, also playing his leaf-violin. In addition, there are sculptures of the ant and the fish with a bowler hat bathed by the jets of water from the fountain.

In 2015, in Orizaba, Veracruz, statues of his characters were installed on Circunvalación avenue, later renamed Cri-Crí avenue, as well as on Alameda Central.[citation required ]

In 2017, the Francisco Gabilondo Soler museum was inaugurated in Orizaba, Veracruz, within the Poliforum Mier y Pesado, where representations of the letters of his most representative works are exhibited, objects that belonged to the master Francisco Gabilondo Soler and the timeline from his birth to his death is shown.[citation needed]

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