![]() And those tunes you tried to stop Grandma from dancing to at your cousin’s wedding reception? Jose Alfredo Jimenez, it seems, wrote everything. Luis Miguel’s signature songs? Jimenez wrote ‘em. ![]() Maybe you heard “Tu Solo Tu” in the movie “Selena”? Jimenez wrote that. People who knew him, however, say it was liver failure from excessive drinking.īut 25 years after his death, his songs remain the lifeblood of the mariachi songbook, and he has been cross-culturally likened to Beethoven, Hank Williams and Bob Dylan. When he died in 1974 at the age of 47, the official cause was listed as a bleeding ulcer. Many of Jimenez’s songs were popularized through film he appeared in many Mexican movies, and his compositions appeared in even more. He spent his short life scribbling hundreds of brilliant ranchera and mariachi standards onto soggy bar napkins. Jimenez is the most famous and beloved singer-songwriter Mexico has ever known-a man equal parts genius and romantic whose tear ‘n’ tequila-stained lyrics were drenched in a tragic reality. If you ask UCLA ethnomusicology professor Steve Loza, “Que pasa?,” the initial answer is simple: The late Jose Alfredo Jimenez is being pimped.
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