--- description: Google is celebrating Mexican singer and actor Pedro Infante with a Google Doodle dedicated to his legendary work title: Why Google Is Celebrating Pedro Infante With a Doodle image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c9e12f9ecb37f5c/6988e6694ee262a70530fd6a/google-doodle-pedro-infante.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Google Doodle](/tag/google-doodle/) ## Google Doodle Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # What You Should Know About Pedro Infante as Google Celebrates Him With a Doodle by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 14, 2023 9:10 PM CUTPublished: Nov 18, 2017 4:49 PM CUT  Google by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 14, 2023 9:10 PM CUTPublished: Nov 18, 2017 4:49 PM CUT Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of Mexican singer and actor [Pedro Infante](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1610682,00.html "undefined") with a [Doodle](http://time.com/5026942/chinua-achebe-google-doodle/ "undefined") dedicated to his legendary work. The subject of Saturday’s Google Doodle, Infante, born in 1917 in Mazatlán, learned music from his father and sang in his band La Rabia. His “soulful croon” expanded the popularity of [mariachi music](http://time.com/3940618/lady-gaga-chicago-mariachi-festival/ "undefined"), by “mixing feeling with technique,” according to Google. Infante’s talents often inspired comparisons to singers like Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, and the actor Humphrey Bogart. Later, Infante starred in about 60 movies, beginning with _La Feria de las Flores_ and recorded more than 350 songs to become one of Mexico’s most beloved celebrities. The [Google Doodle](http://time.com/5024910/cornelia-sorabji-indias-first-female-lawyer/ "undefined") in Infante’s honor covers his work both on stage and screen and off — one sketch shows him in the boxing ring to mark his love for the sport. “Today we celebrate what would have been the artist’s 100th birthday with scenes illustrating the vibrant parallels between his life and work — all beginning with a classic infante pose,” Google said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5030647/google-doodle-pedro-infante/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5030647/google-doodle-pedro-infante/"},"headline":"What You Should Know About Pedro Infante as Google Celebrates Him With a Doodle","datePublished":"2017-11-18T16:49:54.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T21:10:20.000Z","description":"Google made a Doodle in honor of the Mexican singer and actor","url":"https://time.com/5030647/google-doodle-pedro-infante/","keywords":["Google Doodle","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c9e12f9ecb37f5c/6988e6694ee262a70530fd6a/google-doodle-pedro-infante.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c9e12f9ecb37f5c/6988e6694ee262a70530fd6a/google-doodle-pedro-infante.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"google-doodle-pedro-infante","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/google-doodle/","name":"Google Doodle"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5030647/google-doodle-pedro-infante/","name":"What You Should Know About Pedro Infante as Google Celebrates Him With a Doodle"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5030647/google-doodle-pedro-infante/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5030647/google-doodle-pedro-infante/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```