José Antonio Zorrilla

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José Antonio Zorrilla Martínez (born August 22, 1915 in Mérida , Yucatán , † November 26, 1985 ) was a Mexican composer, writer, screenwriter and film director.

Life

Zorrilla studied at the Academia Marden until 1934 . In 1935 he became an employee of the radio station XEW in Mexico City, for which he worked as a program author from 1940. At the age of 15 he composed his first song with Armando Cáceres and Ricardo Pinelo Río . Since 1935 he has also worked as a lyricist of songs by Alfredo Núñez de Borbón ( Tu vanidad , Condena ), Paco Treviño ( Albur , Di la verdad ), Juan Santiago Garrido (Hay que mentir) , Mario Ruiz Armengol (Estoy enamorado), Alfonso Esparza Oteo (Como tú quieras) , José Saber Marroquín ( Canción del mar , Eterno comenzar , No es a Dios este adiós , Te vas de mí ), Javier Ruiz Rueda ( Cosas del amor , No vuelvas , Parece Mentira , Dulce aventura , Déjate ver ) and Miguel Prado Paz ( No es posible , Lloran mis esperanzas , En este aniversario , Lo nuestro ) and set to music by musicians such as Pedro Infante , Amalia Mendoza , Marco Antonio Muñiz , Mario Alberto Rodríguez , Olga Guillot , Juan Arvizu , Pepe Jara , José Antonio Méndez , Luis Alcaraz , Alberto Vázquez , Pedro Vargas , Amparo Montes , Emilio Gálvez , Víctor Yturbe , Daniel Santos , Ana María González , Javier Solís , Miguel Prado Paz, Nicolás Urcelay , Olga Darson , Gina Romand , Carmela Rey , María Victo ria sung by Hermanas Landín ( María Luisa and Avelina Landín ), Chucho Martínez Gil , Hugo Avendaño , Gloria Luz , Eduardo Solís , Chelo Flores , Salvador García , Luis G. Roldán , Emilio Gálvez and José Luis Caballero .

In 1943, at the invitation of Alfonso Sordo Noriega, he joined the XEX radio station as a writer and producer . In 1946 he was one of the founding members of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Música and became its spokesman and vice director. With the advent of television, he became artistic director, writer and producer on Canal 4 for Telesistema Mexicano . Under President Adolfo López Mateos he was a commentator on the Noticias Políticas de Provincia . During the 1968 Summer Olympics , he was the broadcast coordinator for the Organizing Committee. He produced the program Historia de la Canción Romántica de México for Canal 11 of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional .

Zorrilla also worked on several films as a screenwriter, director and composer. In 1975 the Ayuntamiento de Mérida awarded him the Medalla Guty Cárdenas . In 1978 he received the Medalla Agustín Lara of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Música . A portrait of Zorrilla has been in the gallery of the Museo de la Canción Yucateca since 1982 . His bronze bust was placed in the Plaza de los Compositores Mexicanos in Mexico City in 2002 .

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