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The 28th Annual Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival was a celebration of the Mexican spirit, and party to honor a unique culture ...
"I feel like almost a vindication of a music that's been ignored." The Sones de Mexico Ensemble is having it's 30th anniversary gala on Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. at the National Museum of Mexican Art ...
These and many other Mexican genres have made up “two-thirds of the music that has sold in the U.S.,” according to Loza, who was also on the Grammy Awards screening committee for 20 years.
A group started in 1994 by two immigrant musicians has become a staple of Mexican culture and music in the city. Sones de Mexico, a five-person Mexican folk ensemble formed and based in Chicago ...
The other two went platinum. Riding that wave, she pitched an album of Mexican folk songs sung in Spanish at a time when Asylum execs were probably hoping for another Buddy Holly cover.
I had studied singing for many years, but I dedicated myself to the new Mexican [genre], which was what we all sang at that time. It was the time of new [kinds of] singing, of composing songs.
Regional Mexican music, an umbrella term for several genres, has been topping charts and reaching new audiences worldwide and grew 60% in the US in 2023.
The breadth contained by regional Mexican folk in some ways encourages genre-bending collaboration — a link-up like Grupo Frontera and Bad Bunny ’s “ un x100to ” expresses a sense of ...
Vicente Fernández, the iconic Mexican singer, actor and film producer whose mighty baritone voice helped elevate mariachi music to an art form, died early Sunday morning at a hospital in ...