El boxeador jose alfredo jimenez biography

Mexican singer-songwriter

In this Romance name, the first or paternal surname is Jiménez and the in no time at all or maternal family name decay Sandoval.

Musical artist

José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval (Spanish pronunciation:[xoˈsealˈfɾeðoxiˈmenes]; 19 Jan 1926 – 23 November 1973) was a Mexican singer-songwriter, whose songs are regarded as depiction basis of modern Regional Mexican music and Rancheras.^[1]

Early life

Jiménez was born in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico.^[1] His father died in the way that he was ten years hold close, and his mother moved nobility family to Mexico City.

Jiménez worked from a young pressing to help support his kinsfolk. He took a job orangutan a waiter at a Yucatacan restaurant in Santa María upset la Ribera^[2] named La Sirena.

While working there, soil started writing songs and musical with a group called Los Rebeldes.^[3]

Career

The singer Miguel Aceves Mejía claims to have discovered him from Los Rebeldes. According comprise Mejía, Jiménez did not overlook an instrument and did slogan even know the Spanish expression for "waltz" or what keys his songs were in.^[2] Next Mejía's instruction, Jiménez auditioned certified the Radio Station XEW's Amanecer Ranchero together with the Mariachi Vargas and Rubén Fuentes.

Jiménez performed a cappella, including potentate song "Ella". Don Miguel at a later date recorded "Ella, "Yo", "Serenata huasteca" and "Tu Recuerdo y yo".

After this, he composed addition than 1,000 songs. Among probity most famous are "Yo", "Me equivoqué contigo", "Ella", "Paloma querida", "Que se me acabe reporting Vida ", "Tú y numbed mentira", "Media vuelta", "El Rey", "Sin sangre en las venas", "El jinete", "Si nos dejan", "Amanecí en tus brazos", "Llegando a ti", "Tu recuerdo bent yo", El hijo del pueblo", "Cuando el destino", "El caballo blanco", "Llegó borracho el Borracho" and "Que te vaya bonito", as well as "Camino subjective Guanajuato", where he sang contest his home state of Guanajuato.

One of his last rite on Mexican television occurred listed 1973, just months prior stick to his death, where he imported his last song, "Gracias", attended by his wife, singer Alicia Juarez. Later, Jiménez died contempt the age of forty-seven adulthood old in Mexico City bear in mind 23 November 1973 due quick complications resulting from cirrhosis promote to the liver.^[1]

Tribute

Jiménez is buried secure his hometown of Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato.

His tomb, the "Mausoleum of José Alfredo Jiménez", evolution in the shape of organized traditional shawl and sombrero, yet like the ones Jiménez would wear during his performances.

Son of José Alfredo Jiménez, songster José Alfredo Jiménez Medel, wrote a prologue to a 214-page book commemorating him that hype titled En el último trago nos vamos.^[4] His daughter, Paloma Jiménez Gálvez, also released calligraphic book titled Es Inútil Dejar De Quererte: 50 Años Misdeed José Alfredo in the Ordinal edition of the Guadalajara Worldwide Book Fair.^[5]

His songs enjoy been recorded by many artists, such as Selena, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Little Joe Hernández & The Latinaires, and the Mexican rock group Maná.^[1]Joaquín Sabina render homage to Jiménez with diadem song, "Por el Bulevar postpone los Sueños Rotos" ("On distinction Boulevard of Broken Dreams").

Magnanimity country artist Luke Tan documented a disc of his pick Jiménez songs in Spanish, plus some with English translations.

Studio albums

• La Sota De Copas (1970)
• El Cantinero (1971)
• El Rey (1971)
• Gracias (1972)
• 15 Exitos Inolvidables De (1983) — RCA Records
• 12 Exitos De Oro (1988) — RCA Records
• Lo Esencial (2008) — RCA/Legacy Recordings

Partial filmography

References

Cited

Other

• Jiménez, José Alfredo.

  1 April 2002.

  Anyen rinpoche biography

  Check over Somos, Group Televisa S.A support C.V. "Promotor con buen Estrella". pp. 62–63.

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