Jos Manuel Figueroa Figueroa, better known as Joan Sebastian, was a Mexican singer-songwriter. He composed more than 1,000 songs including compositions for Bronco, Grupo Latino, Vicente Fernndez, Lucero, Pepe Aguilar, and Roco Drcal. His music is a mixture of Latin pop, ranchera and grupera music. Sebastian was awarded seven Latin Grammy Awards and five Grammy Awards, making him the most awarded Mexican performer in Grammy history.Known for composing As es la Vida, Sebastian also worked sporadically as an actor. In 1996, he made his acting debut in the Mexican soap opera T y Yo, sharing credits with Maribel Guardia, his former wife and mother to his son, Julian. In 2015, Sebastian died at the age of 64 of bone cancer. At the time of his death, Sebastian had two number-one albums on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and seven top ten songs on the Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States.