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Chava Flores
Salvador Flores Rivera (14 January 1920 – 5 August 1987), known as Chava Flores, was a Mexican composer and singer of popular and folkloric music. His songs often described the lives of Mexico City's
Salvador Flores Rivera (14 January 1920 – 5 August 1987), known as Chava Flores, was a Mexican composer and singer of popular and folkloric music. His songs often described the lives of Mexico City’s ordinary people. Biography Flores was born in the old La Merced neighborhood, in Mexico City’s historical center, on calle de La Soledad. It is presumed he grew up in Tacuba, in Colonia Roma and in Santa Maria la Ribera, although he is also located in Azcapotzalco and Unidad Cuitláhuac, where he lived until 1933, when he moved to Morelia, Michoacán. His father died in 1933, so he had to start working to contribute to the support of his family. El Álbum de Oro de la Canción Chava Flores had many jobs since his childhood; he worked as a tailor, warehouse manager, collector, door-to-door salesman, a hardware store administrator, owner of a shirt and sausage store and a printer, among other things. Tribute On 14 January 2017, Google celebrated his 97th birthday with a Google Doodle. Some of his songs Flores’s songs featured a popular language, with double entendres and wordplays. Some of his compositions are: Interpreters of his songs Filmography Actor * La esquina de mi barrio, 1957, dir.