"Today is a very sad day for us, the mariachi, because the father has just left," says Alfredo Zarate, a Colombian Mariachi in Bogota as famous Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez - also known as Chente - died at the age of 81 after being hospitalised for almost five months after a fall at his ranch.

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