A TRAGEDY turns Óscar Cortés into a composer at the age of 15 and he has composed about a thousand songs

A tragedy turned Óscar Cortés into a composer when he was 15 years old. Well, he spent several months in bed and discovered that he had a knack for composing songs. She has approximately a thousand.

'El corrido de la Gilbertona' is one of the songs recently composed by Oscar Cortescomposer originally from Colima, who has taken Mazatlán as his place of residence for now.

In an interview with DEBATE, Óscar Cortés shares that one day it occurred to him to take the truck and come to see Mazatlán:

“It's the land of the band, I love it, also singing on the beaches, the people,” says the composer excitedly, who has had the opportunity to meet many musicians and singers from this port.

About his compositions, Óscar Cortés mentions that Roberto Junior and his Bandeño recorded 'La Gordibuena' for him:

“He sings a lot of fun cumbia, he dares to say things that others don't, some of my songs are risqué, I love to write everything, more cumbias, and Roberto is daring to sing them.”

'Aguita de limon' is another song composed by Oscar Cortes and Roberto Junior y su Bandeño will launch it soon.

“I especially like working with new artists. There are several projects, there is also a song coming up with Sinaloa tenor Óscar Gómez.”

For Óscar Cortés, inspiration came suddenly, as he suffered an accident that led him to be in bed for several months: “I was 15 years old, I was skating, it went badly for me, as I had nothing to do, so in my little notebook I started writing things and that's how my first songs were born.”

Óscar, who is also a photographer and YouTuber, He also mentions that his compositions are mainly characterized by being fun and romantic: “especially that they help society, that they do not destroy, I also love making children's songs.”

Banda Pelillos, Adán Romero, Joaquín Lira, Los Herederos, Martín Castillo and Ruby Esthephania There are other artists who have already recorded several of their compositions for Óscar Cortés.

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I studied Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa. My experience as a journalist dates back to 1988, when I began to collaborate with Grupo Acir, with Fernando Sarabia and Julieta Hernández in a Shows program. Then I joined Noroeste as a collaborator in the Entertainment section with Rolando Arenas and stayed for almost five years. Later I joined the newspaper El Sol del Pacífico and collaborated with Susana Cazadero in the Entertainment section for 3 years. I joined Debate de Mazatlán in 2001 to work as a Social, Culture, Entertainment reporter; Then I received the opportunity, in 2012, to be Editor of the newspaper La Sirena, a position I held for three and a half years. In my career I have interviewed great figures of entertainment, among them Joan Sebastian, Olga Breeskin, Yuri, Thalía, Lupita D'Alessio, Mijares, Vicente Fernández. I have witnessed the artistic birth of other figures such as Gloria Trevi, Alejandra Guzmán and Ana Bárbara, whom I also interviewed in their musical beginnings. I have closely followed the career of groups such as Banda El Recodo, La Arrolladora Banda El Limón, La Original Banda El Limón; I have also supported since its beginnings and interviewed Banda MS, Julión Álvarez, Espinoza Paz, among others. Since the end of 2015 I have been working as a web reporter in the Debate Shows section. I specialize in writing about Televisa, TV Azteca, particularly their reality shows, also about the careers of celebrities such as Lucero, Aracely Arámbula, Jenni Rivera, Lupita D'Alessio and Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”.

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