
Discover more music, concerts. He died on Novemin Mexico City, Mexico.Listen free to Julieta Venegas Tributo a Jose Alfredo Jimenez XXX. He was married to Alicia Jurez, Mary Medel and Paloma Glvez. He is known for his work on Machete (2010), Lone Star (1996) and Asesinos, S.A. Jos Alfredo Jimnez was born on Januin Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico as Jos Alfredo Jimnez Sandoval. Jos Alfredo Jimnez, Soundtrack: Machete.
En los inicios del siglo XXI, Jose Alfredo (inlitil el apellido, usarlo denotarfa falta de confianza) es en la vida popular, 0 en la vida de Mexico para ser mas exactos, una institucion de instituciones. Reprinted by permission.Para hacer honor a la vida de Jos Alfredo Jimnez se deben revivir tantos sus xitos musicales como sus momentos ms oscuros, consider su hijo, el tambin compositor Jos Alfredo Jimnez Jr.JOSE ALFREDO JIMENEZ: 'LES DIRE QUE LLEGUE DE UN MUNDO RARO' A Chavela vargas. Jos Alfredo tena tres hermanos: Concepcin, Vctor e Ignacio.Originally published in the MENC February and May 2008 Mariachi Newsletters. 6,016 listeners.José Alfredo Jiménez and the Canción RancheraHijo de Agustn Jimnez Albo y de Carmen Sandoval, naci en la ciudad de Dolores Hidalgo, en el estado mexicano de Guanajuato, donde pas sus primeros aos de vida, hasta poco despus de la muerte de su padre en 1936, quien era dueo de una farmacia denominada 'San Vicente'.

In his early teens, he peddled ladies' footwear throughout the Santa María la Ribera section of Mexico City, and in his free afternoons sang with a trio known as Los Rebeldes. Heriberto Molina, violinist and vocal soloist of the world famous Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, was a close friend of José Alfredo for many years and regarded him as something of a hero, not only in his role as a well known singer-composer, but as a man who had to struggle every inch of the way down the long, hard road to acceptance and ultimate recognition.During the early years of his career, José Alfredo worked as a shoeshine boy, truck loader, busboy, and waiter. This soon proved futile and José Alfredo's mother, Carmelita Sandoval, moved with her four children to Mexico City in 1939.Having completed his elementary education, José Alfredo began to take on any and all jobs he could find, hoping to help support the family. Jiménez had to struggle every inch of the way down the long, hard road to recognition.His father, Agustín, who owned and operated a small drugstore, died in 1936, leaving the family nearly destitute and forcing them to sell the store and search for other means of sustenance. At one time, José Alfredo's parents entertained hopes that he would eventually study to become a doctor, but his disinterest in his schoolwork and his passion for composing verses about the heroic deeds of his hometown quickly put an end to such thinking. Early YearsJosé Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval was born on January 19, 1926, in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, the site of the 1810 insurrection of Father Miguel Hidalgo and the local Indian peons against the Spanish rulers.
He himself recalled the experience, saying "me tocaron la campana y el público chifló. Thus, for ten years, José Alfredo was forced to resign himself to his new life in the capital city accompanied by his old acquaintances, poverty, and anonymity.In 1946 José Alfredo Jiménez participated in Radio XEW's "Hora del Aficionado" (Amateur Hour), singing songs written by other composers. It was also a time when the increasing importance of the recording industry and the popularity of radio made it extremely difficult for a newcomer to make a name for himself in the steadily more competitive musical arena. Garrido describes the decade 1931-1941 as “La Edad de Oro da le Canción Popular” (The Golden Age of the Popular Canción) in Mexico, an era in which an enormous number of beautiful canciones were written. The young composer, however, was not entirely satisfied with local recognition or with the idea of having to limit his musical life to after hours work in the cantinas of his barrio.
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The most important aspect of this unique quality was his ability to bring to each performance the same level of emotional involvement that he experienced at the moment in which he composed the song.According to all of my informants there was indeed "something different" about José Alfredo Jiménez. The validity of the statement becomes increasingly obvious when one considers that some of the most successful performers of the era were Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Miguel Aceves Mejía, and Pedro Vargas, all of whom, in addition to being popular singers, were top movie box office attractions.Ríos adds that, although José Alfredo Jiménez, in his opinion, was blessed with neither good looks nor a beautiful voice, he did possess another, more elusive quality that led him to be considered an "angel" by some of his contemporaries. Both Heriberto Molina and Pepe Martínez and other members of the Mariachi Vargas agreed that a beautiful voice was not one of José Alfredo's gifts-an opinion shared by several other lesser-known musicians I have interviewed on this topic.Jorge Luís Ríos of the popular music magazine La Canción Mexicana (The Mexican Song) points out that the mass public audience is most easily impressed by a singer who not only has a beautiful voice, but is physically attractive as well. Rosmel comments that, although José Alfredo sang nearly all his life, his voice was never that of a singer. Clearly, José Alfredo Jiménez was not what the Mexican of his day envisioned as a popular singer. Now I can laugh about it, but I believe that, that night, I even left in tears").He possessed an elusive quality that led him to be considered an "angel" by some of his contemporaries.


At that time José Alfredo figured primarily as a composer, while movie stars with almost operatic singing voices won the awards for Male Vocalist, though simultaneously making his music famous. José Alfredo Jiménez received the award for Best Composer for the years 1950–51, 1951–52, 1954–55, and his huapango "El Jinete" won the Best Song award for 1953–54. A Mariachi TrilogyThe Mexican variant of our own "Gold Record" award was established in 1950, but it actually more closely resembles our Grammy Awards.
Sale Miguel Aceves Mejía como interprete y Rubén Fuentes como arreglista.(There have always been trilogies or threesomes in the artistic community. Viene después José Alfredo Jiménez como compositor. Le voy a enumerar algunas: Sale Jorge Negrete como cantante, entonces sale Ernesto Cortázar y Manuel Esperón como compositores y como arreglista sale Manuel Esperón. Heriberto Molina, longtime vocalist for Mariachi Vargas, explained thatSiempre han habido trilogías dentro del ambiente artístico. Following their example, singers such as Amalia Mendoza, Lucha Villa, El Trío Los Panchos, and Lola Beltrán-as well as internationally known non-Mexican artists such as Paul Anka, Camilo Sesto, Julio Iglesias, Raphael, Vikki Carr, and Eydie Gorme-have recorded José Alfredo Jiménez’s music.
