# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-esperon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:28:11.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-esperon"
name: "Manuel Esperón"
slug: "manuel-esperon"
description: "Manuel Esperón González was a Mexican songwriter and composer. Along with the famous Mexican author Ernesto Cortazar, Esperón cowrote many songs for Mexican films, including \"¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes!\" for the 1941 film of the same name, \"Cocula\" for El Peñón de las Ánimas (1943), and \"Amor con amor se paga\" for Hay un niño en su futuro (1952). Other Esperón compositions have become Latin standards such as \"Yo soy mexicano\", \"Noche plateada\" and \"No volveré\", which was used in the first episode of the 2001 soap opera El juego de la vida. Among other performers, Pedro Infante, Los Panchos, and Jorge Negrete have made his songs well-known. His fame in the US derives from when his song The Three Caballeros was used in the Disney film The Three Caballeros (1945)."
tagline: "Mexican composer (1911–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Busto_de_Manuel_Esper%C3%B3n_G._(2024).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1911-08-03"
deathDate: "2011-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.027792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006064/"
    handle:    "nm0006064"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ea8a2530-fc7b-4754-833c-b2b94cf96621"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مانويل اسپيرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esper%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Esperón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esper%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Esperón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esper%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Esperón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esper%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Esperón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esper%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Esperón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3286808"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1027100"
    title: "Manuel Esperón"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump