Ancestry
He took the name del Valle in honour of his grandfather, Fernando Meléndez del Valle, who was also a tenor. He is the great, great grandson of Andrés del Valle, President of El Salvador in 1876 and a direct descendant of Colonel José María San Martín, President of El Salvador (1854–56) and founder of Santa Tecla, El Salvador.
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