José MarÃÂa Napoleón Ruiz Narváez (born 18 August 1948) is a Mexican singer and composer.
He arrived from Aguascalientes to Mexico City in 1966. In 1977, he won the 6th Mexican national selection for the OTI Festival, and thus represented Mexico in the OTI Festival 1977 with the song "". Although he ended in the last place with no points, his career went on successfully, turning into a star in Mexico.
Vicente Fernández, Pepe Aguilar, Pedro Fernández, Yuri, Franck Pourcel, Plácido Domingo and José José, and Rosario De Alba have sung his compositions.
Napoleón participated fourteen times in the Mexican national selection for the OTI Festival both as a singer and a songwriter; winning the 6th edition with his song "", and thus representing Mexico in the OTI Festival 1977, where he placed seventeenth.