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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-01-02 (86 years old)

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Nacho Méndez

Biography:

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.

He 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.

He began his artistic career in 1959, in Mexico, in the group "Los Vocalistas".

His first composition was the "Jingle" Burbujita de la Sal de Uvas Picot.

The 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.

He was awarded the Diosa de Plata for best film music for the movie "Ángeles y Querubines".

Diosa de Plata for best film music, for the film "Víbora Caliente".

Ariel for best film music, for the film "Las Noches de Paloma".

Within 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.

Known For

Acting

2015

Noche, Boleros y Son as Self - Host

2004

1963

Dile que la quiero as uncredited

1962

Heaven and Earth as uncredited

Sound

1992

Soy libre as Music

1989

Los machos estan fatigados as Original Music Composer

1987

1984

Charrito as Original Music Composer
Ya nunca más as Music

1982

Lagunilla 2 as Music

1980

Frontera as Music

1979

En la trampa as Music
The Illegal as Music

1977

Fantoche as Music
El mexicano as Music

1973

The Mansion of Madness as Original Music Composer

1972

1970

El Topo as Orchestrator
El Topo as Music Arranger

1969

Paula as Music

1967

H.O. as Music

Writing

2004

Monica y el profesor as Screenplay