Though he is perhaps best remembered for his roles in One Mad Kiss, Las Fronteras del Amor, and other musical films of the 1930s, this Mexican-born singer and actor devoted the bulk of his entertainment career to the opera, performing at Mexico's Teatro Ideal and at both the Chicago Civic Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in the United States. After training at Mexico's National Conservatory of Music, he made his operatic debut at Mexico City's Teatro Arbeu in a 1916 production of The Barber of Seville.
