Joan Sebastian
| Joan Sebastian | |
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Joan Sebastian at Pepsi Center on August 22, 2009
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | José Manuel Figueroa Figueroa |
| Born |
April 8, 1951 Juliantla, Guerrero Mexico |
| Died | July 13, 2015 (aged 64) Teacalco, Guerrero, Mexico |
| Genres | Banda, ranchera, Latin ballad, mariachi |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, composer, actor, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1975–2015 |
| Labels | Musart, Fonovisa, Universal Music Latin Entertainment |
| Website | joansebastian |
José Manuel Figueroa Figueroa (April 8, 1951 – July 13, 2015), better known as Joan Sebastian (pronounced: [xoˈan seβasˈtjan]), was a Mexican singer-songwriter. He wrote more than 1,000 songs including compositions for Vicente Fernández, Lucero, Pepe Aguilar, and Rocío Dúrcal. His music is a mixture of Latin pop, ranchera and grupera music. Sabastian was awarded seven Latin Grammy Awards and five Grammy Awards, making him the most awarded Mexican performer in Grammy history.
Sebastian also worked sporadically as an actor. In 1996, he made his acting debut in the Mexican soap opera Tú y Yo (You and I), sharing credits with Maribel Guardia, his former wife and mother to his son, Julian. In 2015, Sebastian died at the age of 64 of bone cancer. At the time of his death, Sebastian had two number-one albums on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and seven top ten songs on the Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States.
Joan Sebastian was born in the rural town of Juliantla in Guerrero, and began composing at the age of seven. His mother had enrolled him to a school near Guanajuato when he was eight years old, and later returned to his hometown three years later.
At age fourteen, his father sent him away to a monastery in Morelos where he was under the care of Father David Salgado. Due to the clergyman's influence on Sebastian, he considered becoming a priest. He enrolled in the Seminario Conciliar de San José in Cuernavaca, Morelos, but realized that he wanted to pursue a music career, and decided to leave the seminary to dedicate himself to music.
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