José María Torre

José María Torre (born José María Torre Hutt on November 4, 1977 in Mexico City) is a Mexican actor and fashion designer who started his career at the age of five doing television commercials. He is the brother of actresses Fátima and Andrea Torre. He is known by the nickname "Chema".

Biography

Born in Mexico City into a large family, that encompasses four brothers and six sisters, two of them actresses: Andrea and Fátima. Torre started his acting career at the age of five years doing commercials, at the age of 12 he obtained a small role in the telenovela Yo compro esa mujer on Televisa, playing the role of Alejandro (Eduardo Yáñez) as a child. Later that year he also participated in Amor de nadie, a story starred by Lucía Méndez. Three years later he played the role of Lucero's brother in Los parientes pobres. In 1994 he obtained a role in the telenovela Agujetas de color de rosa, starring Angélica María. He sang two songs for the soundtrack of the telenovela: Siempre estarás en mí (in duet with Irán Castillo and Cruce de sonrisas. Since then he has made more than ten telenovelas with Televisa.

José María

José María (abbreviated José Mª) is a Spanish language male given name, usually considered a single given name rather than two names, and is a combination of the Spanish names of Joseph and Mary, the parents of Jesus Christ. The separate names "José" for males and "María" for females also exist in the Spanish language. They can also combine in the inverse order forming the female name "María José" (M.ª José); that is, the gender of the compound names "José María" and "María José" is determined by their first component. The name "José María" is colloquially shortened to "José Mari", "Josema" or replaced by the hypocoristic forms "Chema" or "Chemari".

"José María", with its Portuguese language equivalent José Maria (notice the absence of the acute accent over the i in the Portuguese version) is a common name, and many famous people have this name or a similar one:

Spanish names

José Maria de Santo Agostinho

Miguel Boaventura Lucena (1889 – October 22, 1912), known as José Maria or José Maria de Santo Agostinho, was a Brazilian mystic from the state of Santa Catarina, probably the western part of the state. He was born near Curitiba, but little is known about his early life.

In 1911, he began preaching against the Brazilian state. When his rebel forces went up against the Brazilian state military and police at Banhado Grande on October 22, 1912, José Maria was killed, but the battle resulted in a victory for his followers, who declared a "holy war" (now called the Contestado War) and believed that he would be resurrected.