Pepe Guízar

In local Mexican music, Pepe Guízar has often been fondly known as El Pintor Musical de México — the Musical Painter of Mexico — and that’s a proper name for the past due composer because a lot of his songs vividly paint musical pictures of his country. Guízar (who was simply also an acting professional, vocalist, and pianist but was a songwriter most of all) is most beneficial kept in mind for “Guadalajara,” a Mexican regular that paid tribute to his city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. But Guízar not merely published about the Mexican condition of Jalisco — he published about Mexico generally, and his tunes really did provide Mexico alive as efficiently as the country’s greatest painters. In Guadalajara (the next largest town in Mexico), a patio plaza continues to be called after Guízar; la Plaza de los Mariachis (which bilingual Latinos make reference to as Mariachi Square in British) carries a plaque honoring Guízar and a brass bust of mariachi superstar Silvestre Vargas (who founded the renowned Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán — among Guízar’s main affects — in the past due 1890s). Guízar was created José Guízar Morfín in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on January 12, 1912. His musical profession started removing around 1937, when he had written the well-known “Guadalajara.” Over time, “Guadalajara” continues to be recorded countless moments — generally by traditional Mexican mariachi and ranchera performers, although it may also provide itself to a norteño or banda placing. And the tune was also performed by Elvis Presley in Paramount’s 1963 film Fun in Acapulco (which starred the past due rock and roll & roller being a performing lifeguard at a Mexican seaside holiday resort). Guízar had written a great many other great tracks celebrating Mexican lifestyle, including “Chapala” (another ode to a Jalisco area), “Como México No Hay Dos” (which means “THERE IS NO Place Like Mexico”), and “Un Mariachi.” Not absolutely all of Guízar’s tracks had a particularly Mexican theme; for instance, “Sin Ti” (“Without You”) is certainly a love tune that could just like easily be explaining an enchanting longing in Bolivia, Spain, or Puerto Rico. But while Mexican designs didn’t take into account completely of Guízar’s lyrics, they accounted for most of them. On the way, Guízar made an appearance in various movies. English-speaking audiences noticed him perform in the 1940 musical Down Argentine Method (starring Betty Grable, Don Ameche, and Carmen Miranda), and enthusiasts of Spanish-language films associate Guízar with 1947’s Una Gitana en Jalisco (A Gypsy in Jalisco), 1950’s Un Ciclón del Caribe (The Cyclone from the Caribbean), and 1951’s La Reina del Mambo (The Mambo Queen). Guízar was 68 when he passed on in Mexico Town on Sept 27, 1980; the Mexican icon could have switched 93 on January 12, 2005.