Alejandro Fernández is a popular Mexican singer who specializes in traditional, earthy forms of Mexican folk and country music, such as mariachi and ranchera. He is the son of Vicente Fernández, also a popular Mexican singer. Mariachi is a type of musical group, originally from Mexico, consisting of at least two violins, two trumpets, one Spanish guitar, one vihuela (a high-pitched, five-string guitar) and one guitarrón (a small-scaled acoustic bass), but sometimes featuring more than twenty musicians. ... The ranchera is a Mexican music style closely associated with the Mexican mariachi groups which evolved in Jalisco in the post-revolutionary period. ... Vincente Fernandez is a mexican ranchero singer. ...

Though he trained as an architect, Fernández turned to singing in 1991. A year later, he released his first album. Since then, he has recorded 13 albums and sold a reported 20 million records, working with producers such as Emilio Estefan and Kike Santander. Fernández also has portrayed the lead role in Zapata, a 2003 movie about the Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata by filmmaker Alfonso Arau. Emilio Estefan (born March 4, 1953) is a Cuban musician and producer. ... Photo of Emiliano Zapata (right) and his brother Eufemio Zapata Emiliano Zapata Salazar (August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz that broke out in 1910. ... Alfonso Arau (born January 11, Mexican director of such films as Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, 1992) and A Walk in the Clouds, which starred Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn. ...

Although he has many publicized female companions, it is rumored that he and Ricky Martin have been romantically involved; bisexual singer Miguel Bosé has also neither confirmed nor denied a 2004 tabloid report that he and Fernández have been involved as well. Although Fernández has been quoted as saying that he is not homosexual, a Chicago based Univision reporter stated that Fernandez visited a popular gay club, The Man-Hole, during his 1996 visit to perform at the UIC Pavillion in Chicago. Ricky Martin is a popular music singer, born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico on December 24, 1971. ... Miguel Luchino González Bosé (born April 3, 1956), is a Latino actor and musician. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles) and the largest inland city in the country, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

In 2005, Fernandez and his father, Vicente and his brother Vicente Jr., made history by becoming the first Latin American singers to appear as cartoons in a video, for Vicente Sr.'s song, Al Mayor de los Fernandez (To the Oldest Fernandez), dedicated to Vicente Sr.'s father. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... A cartoon is a form of art with diverse origins and even more diverse modern meanings. ...