Ferrusquilla
was born José Ángel Espinoza Aragón Espinosa in Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. When
his widowed father moved to El Guayabo, along the Rio Fuerte. José chose to go
to live in Los Mochis, where one of his teachers proposed he move to Mazatlan,
in order to continue his studies. In Mazatlan he made many friends, and it
was just a group of them who in 1937 he boarded a train bound for Mexico City
because he wanted to be a doctor.
In
1938 he went to work in the XEQ. At first he ran errands, then worked as an
announcer and then as an actor and did some film dubbing. Ferrusquilla acted in
about 80 films. He worked with Mexican national cinema legends such as Carmen
Montejo, Sara García, María Félix, Jorge Negrete and many more. However, she
also shared the screen with the likes of Richard Burton, Anthony Quinn, Boris
Karloff, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Brigitte
Bardot and Jeanne Moreau.
As
Ferrusquilla he appeared in two Euro-westerns: “Four Bullets for Joe” (1963)
and “Guns for San Sebastian” (1967).
As
a composer, his masterpiece was Echame a mí la culpa, which shot to fame and was so popular
in Spain that a film of the same name was filmed, starring Lola Flores and
Miguel Aceves Mejía. However, there have been many songs since that came from
his inspiration.
In
1976 he received, along with Lola Beltrán and Tito Guizar, the Peace Medal of
the United Nations in New York City. From The Autonomous University of Sinaloa
he was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa in 2008.
Today
we celebrate ‘Ferrusquilla’ 95th birthday
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