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  "description": "Mexican musician, composer, actor and playwright.  He lived in Mexico from 1939 to 1964; in Brazil from January to May 1964; in Spain from May to December of the same year; in Mexico from 1965 to 1968; in California, USA, from 1968 to 1970; in Sweden in 1970; in Spain in 1971; in Mexico from 1971 to 1989; in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, from 1982 to 1994 and, from then on, in Mexico City.\n\nHe studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and at the Escuela Libre de Música. He also studied with maestro Moacir Santos in Brazil.\n\nHe began his artistic career in 1959, in Mexico, in the group \"Los Vocalistas\".\n\nHis first composition was the \"Jingle\" Burbujita de la Sal de Uvas Picot.\n\nThe work with which he has obtained greater satisfaction is the music of the film \"Angeles y Querubines\". He has composed some songs in co-authorship with Raúl Astor, Paco Ignacio Taibo and Germán Dehesa.\n\nHe was awarded the Diosa de Plata for best film music for the movie \"Ángeles y Querubines\".\n\nDiosa de Plata for best film music, for the film \"Víbora Caliente\".\n\nAriel for best film music, for the film \"Las Noches de Paloma\".\n\nWithin his professional activity, he has scored forty-seven feature films. He has written original music for six theatrical plays; four themes for television programs, and more than one hundred \"jingles\" or commercials.",
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