Background
Jose was born in 1951, in Juliantla, Guerrero, Mexico.
Manuel Figueroa
Jose was born in 1951, in Juliantla, Guerrero, Mexico.
When he was eight years of age-old it entered as an internal student to an educational establishment in Guanajuato, where he took their first steps in the music's world.
From small he had the dream of being a singer, when it was a Chiquito in their native Juliana, a small town of the municipality of Taxco, Guerrero. In that time, among their desires of being a singer, it was also the one of becoming a priest. He registered in the seminar when he was an adolescent, but soon he would realize that him his was to sing.
And he made this way it. Its first time before the public was in a competition in Cuautla where ‘interpreted Your road and mine ', of Vicente Fernández. Of there their life would begin to take the direction that had wanted always, saying good-bye to the seminar and Juliantla, although he would always return to its earth. In fact, already when he/she headed in their artistic career, it composed him a song to their terruño, which was very famous.
Before turning 20 years, Joan Sebastian began the search of his dream, but to achieve it he had to fight. At the beginning he found difficult a lot to stay as singer, for what worked in a hotel of Oaxtepec; there the beginning of the dream began, as taken out of a movie, because the singer Angélica María who once visited the place at the end of the 60, he listened to it to sing and it was such the pleasure that gave him the number of a producer. Joan Sebastian decided to prove luck and it traveled to the DF to see to the producer, but it finished with others and it began this way to record. They programmed him on the radio and he began to enter people's pleasure.
He got married in 1992 with Maribel Guardia, but they got divorced in 1996. After many years, he got married again, this time with Alina Espín in 2010 until 2015 when he died.
He had several children, among them, are José Manuel Figueroa,Julián Figueroa, Juan Sebastian Figueroa and Marcelia Figueroa.