For the similarly named American musician see John Sebastian. Joan Sebastian is a popular three-time Grammy Award and five-time Latin Grammy Award winning-Mexican singer and songwriter. He has composed hundreds of pop songs and been a regular staple on the top-40 charts in Mexico since his career began in 1977. His music is a mixture of Latin pop, ranchera and grupera music. He has also appeared on television in Brasil and many European countries in the Mexican soap opera Tú y Yo (You and I)sharing credits with Maribel Guardia(who is also an acclaimed actress and singer) . Sebastian is known in Mexico as El Poeta del Pueblo (the People's Poet). Before he had a successful music career, he went onto a tv show resembling American Idol. He applied three times and was rejected. The fourth time, he used a false name and was accepted. The audience loved his talent, but the show's host told him he would never