The Mexican pianist and composer Consuelo Velázquez was only 16 when she wrote Bésame Mucho. It would go on to become one of the most recorded Spanish-language songs of all time. Show more The Mexican ...

Consuelo Velázquez is one of Mexico’s best-known songwriters. Her defining song, “Bésame Mucho,” is essential to Latin music’s songbook, and it’s the quintessential romantic song of the 20 th century.

The Mexican pianist and composer Consuelo Velázquez was only 16 years old when she wrote Bésame Mucho, and she was yet to have her first kiss. Composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez remembers ...