José Alfredo Jiménez

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José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval (born January 19, 1926 in Dolores Hidalgo , † November 23, 1973 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican ranchera singer and composer.

Life

Jiménez, the son of a pharmacist, moved ten years after his father's death to live with an aunt in Mexico City, where he completed his primary school education. His mother had to give up the pharmacy and went to Salamanca with his siblings. He himself had to leave school and worked as a shoe cleaner, shoe seller and waiter in a restaurant called La Sirena . The restaurant owner's son, Jorge Ponce , played guitar in the Trio Los Rebeldes (with Enrique and Valentín Ferrusca ), and Jiménez soon became the group's singer, writing songs for them.

In 1948, the self-taught musical debut with the Rebeldes on the radio station XEW. The harpist Andrés Huesca , one of the regulars at La Sirena , was so impressed by Jiménez's songs that he recorded the title Yo with his group Andrés Huesca y Sus Costeños in 1950 . In the following years until his death, Jiménez, mostly accompanied by the Mariachi Vargas , recorded almost 300 of his own songs, mostly Rancheras, Huapangos and Corridos, for Columbia Records and RCA Victor . In the 1960s he also appeared in numerous Mexican films, the titles of which were sometimes quotations from his song texts. His songs were later recorded by singers such as Pedro Infante , Jorge Negrete , Luis Miguel , Lola Beltrán , Joan Manuel Serrat and Lucha Villa . One of his best known and most successful songs is Paloma Querida, dedicated to his wife Paloma Gálvez .

Trivia

As a young man, Jiménez played football in the ranks of the three-time Mexican champions Club Marte and Real Oviedo , whose offspring included the five-time World Cup participant Antonio Carbajal .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Un año más sin “El Rey”, José Alfredo Jiménez (Spanish; article from November 22, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Jiménez, José Alfredo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jiménez Sandoval, José Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dolores Hidalgo
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 1973
Place of death Mexico city