Paco Arango

Francisco Arango García-Urtiaga, better known as Paco Arango (Mexico City, 1962), is a Spanish-Mexican singer, screenwriter, film director, and philanthropist. At the age of five, he moved to Spain with his family, where his father, Plácido Arango Arias, and his brothers founded the Vips televisi... More

Francisco Arango García-Urtiaga, better known as Paco Arango (Mexico City, 1962), is a Spanish-Mexican singer, screenwriter, film director, and philanthropist. At the age of five, he moved to Spain with his family, where his father, Plácido Arango Arias, and his brothers founded the Vips television network. He studied in the United States and after graduating, he dedicated himself to music, recording four LPs with Sony Records between 1988 and 1995. In 1999, he started his own television production company, with which he wrote the script and produced ¡Ala... Dina! (2000-2002), starring Paz Padilla, which was successful in Spain. In 2004, he also directed the series El inquilino, starring Jorge Sanz. In December 2011, he wrote and directed Maktub, inspired by a child with cancer, for which he received three Goya Award nominations. A few years earlier, he had also founded the Aladina Foundation, which provides volunteers, builds rooms for adolescents in hospitals, and helps fund the expenses of children and their families. In 2012, Aladina used profits from Arango's first film to build one of the most advanced bone marrow transplant centers in Europe in Madrid. In 2016, he directed Lo que de verdad importa (What Really Matters), a charity film 100% according to the director, and for which he won one of the José María Forqué Film Awards. With the same goal, in 2019, he released Los Rodríguez y el más allá (The Rodríguezes and the Beyond).