Armando Manzanero-Canché (born in Mérida, Yucatán on 7 December 1935) is a Mexican musician, singer, and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America.He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in United States in 2014.He is the current president of the Mexican Society of Authors and Composers (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México).