Better known as Tin Tan was an actorsinger 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