José Guízar Morfín better known as "Pepe Guizar" born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (February 12, 1912 - 27 September 1980), was a Mexican composer, poet and musician. He composed the song "Guadalajara" which is probably the most popular mariachi song in the world ever composed.
Pepe Guizar was the son of Luis Guizar Valencia and Maria Morfin. His early studies were done in the Don Atilano Zavala School and Instituto de Ciencias de Jalisco. In 1928 he moved to Mexico City and entered the National Preparatory School. Later was the first three years of law degree from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. He also studied music and recitation at the National Conservatory being started in music and piano by maestro J. Jesus Estrada: For his part, Professor Erasmo Castellanos Quinto infected him a taste for poetry.
In the XEW radio rightly Pepe Guizar was baptized as "The Music of Mexico painter" because his compositions draw the musical geography of Mexico. It was a folkloric composer strove to dress-Mexican music, led beyond the bars and neighborhoods to enter the halls making it compete with the tango and bolero, when they were fashionable. Enamored of the Mexican province and sang deep national roots to Mexico, its people, a mariachi band and the people of Jalisco. Besides "Guadalajara Guadalajara" wrote: Corrido del Norte, Mexico Tehuantepec and as no two. All, hits that marked an epoch in the life of Mexican music. Pepe Guizar gave validity to an entire musical movement interested in restoring values and life of its people beyond the capital.
The Jalisco state government granted him the Castle of the Colomos to live on it, but his poor health did not allow him to inhabit for long. He traveled frequently to Mexico City to feel surrounded by people and died in one of these trips on 27 September 1980. Today the castle no longer of "distant Colomitos" bears his name. His remains rest in the Pantheon Gardens, a city in Mexico.