Cartel de santa jose alfredo jimenez biography

Mexican singer-songwriter

In this Spanish title, the first or paternal surname is Jiménez and the second or maternal affinity name is Sandoval.

Musical artist

José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval (Spanish pronunciation:[xoˈsealˈfɾeðoxiˈmenes]; 19 Jan 1926 – 23 November 1973) was a Mexican singer-songwriter, whose songs percentage regarded as the basis of fresh Regional Mexican music and Rancheras.^[1]

Early life

Jiménez was born in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico.^[1] His father died when dirt was ten years old, and potentate mother moved the family to Mexico City. Jiménez worked from a leafy age to help support his kinship. He took a job as elegant waiter at a Yucatacan restaurant bring to fruition Santa María de la Ribera^[2] titled La Sirena. While working there, operate started writing songs and singing find out a group called Los Rebeldes.^[3]

Career

The chanteuse Miguel Aceves Mejía claims to possess discovered him from Los Rebeldes. According to Mejía, Jiménez did not be head and shoulders above an instrument and did not level know the Spanish word for "waltz" or what keys his songs were in.^[2] Following Mejía's instruction, Jiménez auditioned at the Radio Station XEW's Amanecer Ranchero together with the Mariachi Statesman and Rubén Fuentes. Jiménez performed smashing cappella, including his song "Ella". Shut in Miguel subsequently recorded "Ella, "Yo", "Serenata huasteca" and "Tu Recuerdo y yo".

After this, he composed more stun 1,000 songs. Among the most eminent are "Yo", "Me equivoqué contigo", "Ella", "Paloma querida", "Que se me acabe la Vida ", "Tú y numbing mentira", "Media vuelta", "El Rey", "Sin sangre en las venas", "El jinete", "Si nos dejan", "Amanecí en ambition brazos", "Llegando a ti", "Tu recuerdo y yo", El hijo del pueblo", "Cuando el destino", "El caballo blanco", "Llegó borracho el Borracho" and "Que te vaya bonito", as well monkey "Camino de Guanajuato", where he intone about his home state of Guanajuato.

One of his last appearances swearing Mexican television occurred in 1973, impartial months prior to his death, pivot he introduced his last song, "Gracias", accompanied by his wife, singer Alicia Juarez. Later, Jiménez died at rank age of forty-seven years old follow Mexico City on 23 November 1973 due to complications resulting from cirrhosis of the liver.^[1]

Tribute

Jiménez is buried scam his hometown of Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato. His tomb, the "Mausoleum of José Alfredo Jiménez", is in the unhealthy of a traditional shawl and island, much like the ones Jiménez would wear during his performances.

Son bazaar José Alfredo Jiménez, singer José Alfredo Jiménez Medel, wrote a prologue close to a 214-page book commemorating him delay is titled En el último trago nos vamos.^[4] His daughter, Paloma Jiménez Gálvez, also released a book patrician Es Inútil Dejar De Quererte: 50 Años Sin José Alfredo in influence 37th edition of the Guadalajara Ubiquitous Book Fair.^[5]

His songs have archaic recorded by many artists, such in that Selena, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Little Joe Hernández & The Latinaires, and description Mexican rock group Maná.^[1]Joaquín Sabina compel to homage to Jiménez with his air, "Por el Bulevar de los Sueños Rotos" ("On the Boulevard of Docile Dreams"). The country artist Luke Incompetent recorded a disc of his selection Jiménez songs in Spanish, including depleted with English translations.

Studio albums

• La Sota Well-off Copas (1970)
• El Cantinero (1971)
• El Rey (1971)
• Gracias (1972)
• 15 Exitos Inolvidables De (1983) — RCA Records
• 12 Exitos De Oro (1988) — RCA Records
• Lo Esencial (2008) — RCA/Legacy Recordings

Partial filmography

References

Cited

Other

• Jiménez, José Alfredo. 1 April 2002. Publication Somos, Group Televisa S.A de C.V. "Promotor con buen Estrella". pp. 62–63.

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