José Ángel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla"

José Ángel Espinoza Aragón was born on 2 October 1919 in Choix, Sinaloa. He completed his early schooling in the region and moved to Mexico City in 1937 intending to study medicine, though he also took courses at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.

In 1938 he joined radio station XEQ. When several cast members were unexpectedly unavailable for the program "Fifirafas," he performed eight different voices himself, earning him the nickname "the Man of a Thousand Voices" and the stage name Ferrusquilla, under which he became a popular figure on Mexican radio.

As a composer affiliated with the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México, he wrote more than eighty songs — among them "Échame a mí la culpa" and "El tiempo que te quede libre" — performed by artists such as Lola Beltrán, Vicente Fernández, Los Panchos and María Dolores Pradera. He also built an extensive acting career in Mexican, American, Spanish, French and English cinema, appearing alongside figures including Pedro Infante, Anthony Quinn and John Wayne.

He was a member of El Colegio de Sinaloa and, in 2008, the sixth member of that institution to receive an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, in recognition of an artistic career spanning more than sixty years. He had earlier received the Premio Sinaloa de las Artes in 2000. He died on 6 November 2015 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.