Gabriel Ruiz (composer)

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Gabriel Ruiz Galindo (born March 18, 1908 in Guadalajara , † January 31, 1999 in Guadalajara ) was a Mexican composer .

Ruiz studied music in Guadalajara and medicine for two years. In 1930 he received a scholarship to study at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City, which he completed four years later with a performance with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional under Carlos Chávez Ramírez at the Teatro Abreu with a diploma as a concert pianist.

His first songs, Inútil and Reto, were written in collaboration with Ricardo López Méndez . Other successful compositions were Amor , Desesperadamente and Mar (again with López Méndez), Usted and Perdóname mi vida with José Antonio Zorrilla Monís , Despierta, en mancuerna with Gabriel Luna de la Fuente , Soberbia with Rodolfo Sandoval , Mazatlán , La Parranda and La Cita . He also worked as a composer with Mario Molina Montes , Rodolfo Chamaco Sandoval , Teddy Fregoso , Elías Nandino and others.

Ruiz was a founding member of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México . As their representative, he took part in the delegates' conference of the Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs in Rome in 1962 . In 1967 he received three diplomas and gold medals from Broadcast Music Incorporated in New York for every million performances of his songs Amor , Mar and La Parranda . In 1978 the city of Mazatlán gave him the keys to the city as thanks for his songs Mazatlán and Noches de Mazatlán , named a street after him and made him an honorary citizen. In 1980 he received the Premio Jalisco from Governor Flavio Romero de Velasco and was named El melodista de América . In 1989, alongside Manuel Esperón and Consuelito Velázquez , he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari .

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