Mario de Jesús Báez

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Mario César de Jesús Báez (born August 18, 1924 in San Pedro de Macorís , † September 11, 2008 ) was a Dominican composer and music publisher.

De Jesús began writing essays and articles on art and music at an early age. He received his first musical training from Pablo Bello , the director of the band in his hometown. In 1946 he went to New York as editor of the Revista Musical . There he worked as a correspondent for various Latin American magazines and began studying music. In 1950 he became music editor at Peer International . He had his first success as a composer with No toques ese disco , interpreted by Bienvenido Granda and the Sonora Matancera . It followed in 1954, sung by Virginia López , Ya la pagarás .

In 1959 he moved to Mexico. There were boleros like Ya tú verás (with Virginia López) and Ayúdame Dios mío (with María Elena Sandoval ). In total, de Jesús composed around three hundred songs, including Que se mueran de envidia (with Manolo Muñoz and Javier Solís ), Qué manera de llorar (with Felipe Pirela ), El infierno (with Javier Solís and Julio Jaramillo ), La trampa (with Olimpo Cárdenas and Julio Jaramillo), El Cha Cha Cha Flamenco (with Pérez Prado and Las Hermanas Navarro ) and Cuidadito, cuidadito (with María Victoria ). Other interpreters of his songs include Toña la Negra , Juan Mendoza , Olga Guillot , Antonio Prieto , Amalia Mendoza La Tariácuri , Julio Iglesias , Alberto Vázquez Gurrola , María Luisa Landín , Flor Silvestre , Pérez Prado, Lucho Gatica , Vikki Carr , Lucía Méndez and Plácido Domingo .

In 1968 de Jesús founded the Editorial Musical Latinoamericana (EMLASA), and in 1975 the Editora Leo Musical , where a significant repertoire of Mexican music was published. He has received numerous awards for his work, for example in 1950 with the Trofeo Ángel Viloria , a New York Prize for Dominican composers, in 1959 with the Trofeo Farándula of the magazine of the same name, in 1960 with the Trofeo Radiolandia for the song Ayúdame Dios mío , and in 1961 with the Trofeo Revista Teatral for the song Y ... , 1979 in his home country with the Premio El Dorado and 1981 in Venezuela with the El Guaicaipuro de Oro . For Ni con la vida te pago (interpreted by Vicente Fernández ), he received the ASCAP award for the most outstanding Mexican composition of the year in 1995 .

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SURNAME de Jesús Baéz, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Jesús Báez, Mario César
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican composer and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH San Pedro de Macorís
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2008