Throbbing with romance, the music of popular Mexican composer Agustin Lara is as vital and insistent as a beating heart. When encountering work of such deep emotion, the public is naturally curious ...

José Rubén De León pays tribute to AgustÍn Lara with a spare, haunting new collection When José Rubén De León began constructing a show dedicated to the life and music of Agustín Lara, he decided to ...

Every seat in Mexico City’s ornate Bellas Artes palace was filled, and outside hundreds waited vainly to get in. On the stage, the country’s top entertainers trooped to the microphone to sing and play ...

Sallow-cheeked Agustin Lara is the most artful fashioner of the libido-loaded lyrics of Mexico’s popular songs. He is also Mexico’s most prolific popular composer. Since his first success with Mujer ...