The harpist Andrés Huesca, one of the regulars at La Sirena, was so impressed by Jiménez's songs that he recorded the title Yo with his group Andrés Huesca y Sus Costeños in 1950. In 1948, the self-taught musical debut with the Rebeldes on the radio station XEW. The restaurant owner's son, Jorge Ponce, played guitar in the Trio Los Rebeldes (with Enrique and Valentín Ferrusca ), and Jiménez soon became the group's singer, writing songs for them. He himself had to leave school and worked as a shoe cleaner, shoe seller and waiter in a restaurant called La Sirena. His mother had to give up the pharmacy and went to Salamanca with his siblings. Jiménez, the son of a pharmacist, moved ten years after his father's death to live with an aunt in Mexico City, where he completed his primary school education.
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