José Guízar Morfín better known as "Pepe Guizar" born in Guadalajara, Jalisco

Guadalajara, Jalisco

Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...

, Mexico (February 12, 1912 - 27 September 1980), was a Mexican composer, poet and musician. He composed the song "Guadalajara

Guadalajara (song)

Guadalajara is a well-known mariachi song composed by Pepe Guizar in 1937. It is probably the most famous mariachi song of all time. "Guadalajara Guadalajara" is considered both within Mexico and abroad as a synonym of the symbols of Mexico: Mariachi, tequila and the charro, to such degree that...

" which is probably the most popular mariachi song in the world ever composed.

Biography

Pepe Guizar was the son of Luis Guizar Valencia and Maria Morfin. His early studies were done in the Don Atilano Zavala School and Instituto de Ciencias de Jalisco. In 1928 he moved to Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 and entered the National Preparatory School. Later was the first three years of law degree from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. He also studied music and recitation at the National Conservatory being started in music and piano by maestro J. Jesus Estrada: For his part, Professor Erasmo Castellanos Quinto infected him a taste for poetry.

In the XEW radio rightly Pepe Guizar was baptized as "The Music of Mexico painter" because his compositions draw the musical geography of Mexico. It was a folkloric composer strove to dress-Mexican music, led beyond the bars and neighborhoods to enter the halls making it compete with the tango

Tango (ballroom)

Ballroom Tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance....

 and bolero

Bolero

Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...

, when they were fashionable. Enamored of the Mexican province and sang deep national roots to Mexico, its people, a mariachi band and the people of Jalisco. Besides "Guadalajara Guadalajara" wrote: Corrido del Norte, Mexico Tehuantepec

Tehuantepec

Tehuantepec is a city and municipality in the southeast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is part of the Tehuantepec District in the west of the Istmo Region. The area was important in pre Hispanic period as part of a trade route that connected Central America with what is now the center of...

 and as no two. All, hits that marked an epoch in the life of Mexican music. Pepe Guizar gave validity to an entire musical movement interested in restoring values and life of its people beyond the capital.

The Jalisco state government granted him the Castle of the Colomos to live on it, but his poor health did not allow him to inhabit for long. He traveled frequently to Mexico City to feel surrounded by people and died in one of these trips on 27 September 1980. Today the castle no longer of "distant Colomitos" bears his name. His remains rest in the Pantheon Gardens, a city in Mexico.

Some of his popular compositions

• Guadalajara
• Tehuantepec
• Chapala
• Sin Tí