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The Original Pachuco : Tin Tan
Tin Tan Portrait painted by Fonzy Air Shot and Photo by Sal Rojas
The Original Pachuco : Tin Tan
The Mexican actor Tin Tan was born Germán Genaro Cipriano Valdés Castillo
on September 19, 2015 in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was a famous
and successful Mexican actor,comedian, and singer that starred in over 100
films. He often dressed in traditional zoot-suit pachuco style and employed
pachuco slang known as "Calo" in many of his movies. Calo is a mixture of Mexicanized-English and Americanized-Spanish and is a street product of the pachuco barrio culture. He made the Mexican-American Calo slang
famous in Mexico.
Tin
Tan became ill with stomach cancer and passed away on
June 29, 1973 (aged 57) in Mexico City, Mexico. He left a body of work that consisted of over a hundred movies, eleven records, two short movies and three
dubbings for the Walt Disney Company (Jungle Book, The Aristocats, and The
Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad).
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