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Hugo Rosales Cruz (Mexico City, December 9, 1956) is an active Mexican composer and teacher specialized in contemporary concert music, in its variants: instrumental, vocal, chamber music, orchestra and symphonic band, stage music and video, inter transdisciplinary music, electronic media and new technologies.

Biography
He was born in the populous neighborhood of “Moctezuma”, located northeast of Mexico City, as he himself describes it in the program from Radio UNAM: “Testimonio de Oídas”. "“...I am the youngest, in a family of seven children, four of whom live. My father was Cándido Rosales Zavaleta, multi-trades, tool inventor for automotive mechanics and traveling agent throughout the country selling his inventions, a fanciful old-boy, a popular poet and musician, a man with a strong hand and a big heart. My mother was Carmen Cruz Bonilla, a housewife and merchant in a little shop that she had at the entrance of the house, she lulled me with Faith, praying "Our Father" and singing songs of the Mexican revolution, and she taught me the unconditional love of a mother, to his children, to the family, to the homeland, to the blessing that is life, she instilled in me respect for the dignity of human beings to build a better world based on mutual help, solidarity, generosity, in the usefulness of virtue."

First love
"“...When my parents played and sang in duet in social gatherings, they would send me to sleep and I would hide under the sofa listening to them until dawn. Guitar at home was the best way to enjoy free time, learning by ear what they interpreted, they were my first teachers, that's where my vocation for music was born and the guitar was my first love. ""

Initiation to music
He discovered in his adolescence-youth that he could travel all over Mexico, with the motto: "journeys illustrate" and he took to the roads and highways together with other friends. "“... with a blanket, a harmonica and my guitar in my hands, it was enough, composing and singing to everything that my heart and reason were discovering. I realized in those trips that I could make a living from music, music was like a safe conduct for the stomach and the soul, it opened many doors wherever I went, and it allowed me at times to enter the essence of the people. My desire to be a scientist, philosopher, sociologist, social fighter, for economic, family and personal reasons, limited me, showed me that I could not achieve that much, and my hunger to be gradually led me to commit myself, more and more, to music . The child wanted to be everything, he wanted to be a cloud, he wanted to be a bird, he wanted to be a fish, and as he grew up he became music."

Everything can become music
He learned that a comprehensive academic training and a critical conception of the world would provide him with a broader education and critical conception of the world, where the knowledge of what was acquired, sooner or later could become music, ... "...because everything that exists sooner or later can become music ”"

First studies
Self-taught music training allowed him to enter professional concert music schools. Parallel to high school, he entered the "School of Artistic Initiation (EIA) No. 1 of the INBA"; and simultaneously with his studies at the “Colegio de Bachilleres” and at the “Facultad de Economía-UNAM” he studied at the “Escuela Nacional de Música (ENM) de la UNAM”, at the “Escuela Superior de Música (ESM) del INBA ”, doing complementary studies at the“ National Conservatory of Music (CNM) ”, at the“ Carlos Chávez Music Research and Documentation Center of INBA (CENIDIM) ”and at the“ Escuela Vida y Movimiento - Ollin Yoliztli ”. Later he studied as a fellow at the "Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) de Cuba" in the specialty of Symphonic Composition; and later he obtained a Master's degree in the "ENM" today "Faculty of Music (FaM) - UNAM", specializing in Composition and New Technologies, (among other studies).

Early years
According to him in the aforementioned interview, before he learned to write music on a staff, during the sixties he composed some instrumental pieces and songs for family and social gatherings with a variety of themes, to friends, to his pet, to his parents, of social protest. And by learning to write with a note, he composed and won in 1973 and 1974, the 1st Prize twice, and the 3rd Prize, in the instrumental category and in the vocal category, in the "I and II Internal Student Composition Contest" of the “ENM-UNAM”, respectively, and the publishing house “Ricordi Americana”. This stimulated him financially and emotionally to sustain his musical career more eagerly, formally studying guitar and concert music composition.