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José Refugio "Cuco" Sánchez Saldaña [1] (3 May 1921 [2] – 5 October 2000) [1] was a Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. Sánchez was one of Mexico's most popular singers and recorded most of his singles and studio albums for Columbia Records. He is also one of Mexico's most famous and prolific songwriters.
Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero Jr. (December 24, 1916 – March 17, 2005) [2] was an American guitarist, singer and farm labor activist best known for his strong influence on later Latin musical artists. [ 3 ]
He began his musical career at a very early age. During his teen years he was the lead guitarist in a number of bands playing in pubs and popular Mexican nightclubs. He was greatly influenced by B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Larry Carlton, Santana and others. He quickly learned to play the bass, drums, and some piano as well.
Legendary Mexican singer and composer Armando Manzanero has died at the age of 85. Manzanero’s death was announced Monday morning by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a news ...
José Ariel Camacho Barraza (July 8, 1992 – February 25, 2015) [1] was a Mexican musician and singer-songwriter. He predominantly performed regional Mexican music, mainly corridos. [2] He was the lead singer and lead guitarist of his group, Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho.
Lydia Mendoza (May 31, 1916 – December 20, 2007) was a Mexican-American guitarist and singer of Tejano and traditional Mexican-American music. Historian Michael Joseph Corcoran has stated that she was "The Mother of Tejano Music", an art form that is the uniquely Texas cultural amalgamation of traditional Mexican, Spanish, German, and Czech musical roots.
José Sergio Vega Cuamea (September 12, 1969 – June 26, 2010), better known by his stage name "El Shaka", [2] was a regional Mexican singer. He was born in Ejido Hornos, Sonora, located near Ciudad Obregón in Mexico. [3] On June 26, 2010, he was killed by gunfire in the Mexican state of Sinaloa after a car chase.
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2021.