Gabriel Ruiz (composer)

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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SURNAME	Ruiz, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ruiz Galindo, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican composer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Guadalajara (Mexico)
DATE OF DEATH	January 31, 1999
Place of death	Guadalajara (Mexico)