Alejandro Fernández Abarca, better known only as Alejandro Fernández or as "El Potrillo", is a singer of boleros, ballads, Latin pop, mariachi, romantic and ranchera music originally from Mexico. He was born on April 24, 1971 in Mexico City, the Mexican capital; although his record says he was born in the city of Guadalajara, the Mexican state of Jalisco. He is the son of María del Refugia, better known by the nickname Diña Cuca, and the renowned ranch music singer Vicente Fernández. Alejandro is the youngest of the couple's four children, being the names of his brothers: Vicente Jr., Gerardo and Alejandra. Beyond his musical vocation, Alejandro Fernández, after studying primary and secondary school, went to study Architecture at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac.

His musical beginning has its origin in 1976, when his father took him to an audience of more than 10,000 spectators to sing Alejandra; however, Alejandro himself has confessed that it was rather a traumatic event because of the scenic panic he felt. Already at 18, he worked with his father on the album Mexico, voice and feeling, where he performed the song Love of the Two, which received great success and let him know that he had a professional future in singing. For 1992 he released with the record label Sony Music, his first album, which bore the same name of the artist, Alejandro Fernández. This resulted in musical successes such as I need to forget it, Wrongly, Brumas, and helped Alejandro to reach the second place of the Billboard Regional Mexican Albums, and tour both Mexican and American stages. In addition, this first work earned him the Male Revelation Award of the Tv and Novel Awards, which was awarded by Rocío Dúrcal.