Joan Sebastian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joan Sebastian

Mexican singer

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1951

Place of Birth: Juliantla, Guerrero, Mexico

Date of Death: 13-Jul-2015

Profession: actor, poet, record producer, singer-songwriter, television actor

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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José Manuel Figueroa Figueroa (April 8, 1951 – July 13, 2015), better known as Joan Sebastian (pronounced [?o'an seßas'tjan]), 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.
Sebastian 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.