José Alfredo Jiménez (born January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining (357 in leap years). Events 1431 - Trial of Joan of Arc began in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government. 1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat. 1768 - Philip... January 9, 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-April January 1 - Irelands first regular radio service, 2RN (later , in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters from Harlem looking for extra money during the Depression. It was a precursor... 1926 in Dolores Hidalgo is a small city in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Dolores Hidalgo is located at 21.17°N 100.93°W, at an elevation of about 6200 feet above sea level. In 2000 it was estimated to have a population of about 50,000 people. History The city... Dolores Hidalgo, Other Mexican States Capital Guanajuato Other major cities León, Salamanca, list of municipalities Area 30,491 km² Ranked 22nd Population (2000 census) 4,656,760 Ranked 6th Governor (2000-06) Juan Carlos Romero Hicks (PAN/PVEM) Federal Deputies (15) PAN = 12 PRI/PVEM = 2 PRD = 1 Federal Senators PAN... Guanajuato_(state), died November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. Events 1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. In 1497 he invaded England claiming to be the... November 23, 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. Events January January 1 - United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys. March 7 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered. March 8 - IRA bombs explode in the Whitehall and the Old Bailey. March... 1973 in Mexico City (Spanish: Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés first arrived in the area, then the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, in 1519, but did not succeed in conquering the city until August 13, 1521, after long fierce fighting that destroyed most of the old Aztec city. The city served as the... Mexico City, The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered to the north by the United States of America, to the southeast by... Mexico) was a The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered to the north by the United States of America, to the southeast by... Mexican In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i.e. uses the voice as an instrument to make music. A lead singer is one who sings the primary vocals of a song, as opposed to a backup singer who sings backup vocals to a song... singer- A songwriter is someone who writes either the lyrics or the music for songs. The same person may write both. Writing the music is also called composition. Sometimes the word , although the tradition of doing this dates back hundreds of years. It is often speculated that pre-historic man must... songwriter in the The ranchera is a Mexican music style closely associated with the Mexican mariachi groups which evolved in Jalisco in the post-revolutionary period. Drawing on rural traditional folklore, the ranchera was conceived as a symbol of a new national consciousness in reaction to the aristocratic tastes of the era. Probably... ranchera style. He had no musical training—according to the singer Miguel Aceves Mejía, Jiménez didn't play an instrument and didn't even know the Spanish terms for " The waltz is a dance in 3/4 time, done primarily in closed position, the commonest basic figure of which is a full turn in two measures using three steps per measure. It first became fashionable in Vienna in about the 1780s, then spread to many other countries within the... waltz" and " In Music theory, the key is the in a certain key. A brass instrument built in, say, B flat, will play a fundamental note of B flat, and will be able to play notes in the harmonic series starting on B flat without using valves, fingerholes, slides or otherwise altering... key". Nonetheless he composed more than 100 songs. Among the most famous are "Si Nos Dejan", "Ella", "El Rey", "El Jinete", "Cuando el Destino" and "Que Te Vaya Bonito". In addition to his own hit recordings, many of his songs have been recorded successfully by singers around the Spanish-speaking world. Most notably by Pedro Infante was a famous and popular Mexican actor and singer in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born as Pedro Infante Cruz in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, on December 17, 1917 and died in a plane crash in Mérida, Yucatán on April 15, 1957. He appeared in about... Pedro Infante, Javier Solís, Jorge Negrete, Lola Beltrán, Lucha Villa and Vicente Fernández.

He was the first singer who made a record with the influential tambora sinaloense band Banda el Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga.