José María Napoleón

Award-winning singer, songwriter, and sometime-actor José María Napoleón is revered in his home country of Mexico -- and throughout Latin America -- as the "Poet of Song." As one of the key protagonists of the hugely influential balada movement of the 1970s, his musical signature as a writer and recording artist lies in delicately layered orchestral arrangements that weaves elements of traditional styles from mariachi to rancheras to boleros with sophisticated orchestral and rock charts amid consciously beautiful melodies. That trademark sound, though it has evolved over the d...