Germán Valdés

Germán Valdés

also known as Tin Tan
Birthday: 19 Sep 1915
Day of death: 29 Jun 1973
Birth place: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Bio:

Better known as Tin Tan, was an actor,singer and comedian who was born in Mexico City but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. He often displayed the pachuco dress and employed pachuco slang in many of his movies, some with his brothers Manuel "El Loco" Valdésand Ramón Valdés. He made the language of the Mexican American pachucos famous in Mexico. A "caló" based in Spanglish, it was a mixture of Spanish and English in speech based on that of Mexican immigrants.

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