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Mexican musician (1947–2023)

Rodolfo Olivares (April 19, 1947 – March 17, 2023),^[1] known as Fito Olivares, was a Mexican cumbia musician.^[2]

Olivares was the son of María Cristina Olivares and Mucio Olivares.

He spent his childhood on a ranch of Rechinadores, Tamaulipas. In the school of this ranch he learned to play the Saxophone that his father bought him.

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His father Mucio Olivares was a good saxophonist and they started practicing with the saxophone together when he was 12. He graduated from the commercial academy in 1961 and began to work keeping accounts of some businesses. He began to play professionally in 1963, at the age of 16, in Ciudad Camargo, Tamaulipas.^{[citation needed]}

Career

With a local group in 1962 he was invited by Abel Martínez, Bernardo Gómez and Noé Santos to be part of the Dueto Estrella in Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas.^[3] In 1963, he composed his first song "Ya No Eres Mia" that would