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Mexican Spaghetti Western is a studio album by Robert Rodriguez's band, Chingon. Originally released in 2004 exclusively on the band's website, it became available in stores on April 10, 2007. The original non-digi-pak release of the album did not include the song "Cielito Lindo".
Chingon was formed by film director Robert Rodriguez to record songs for his 2003 film Once Upon a Time in Mexico.They contributed to Mexico and Mariachis, a compilation album from Rodriguez' Mariachi Trilogy, and released their debut album, Mexican Spaghetti Western, in 2007.
Robert Anthony Rodriguez (/ r ɒ ˈ d r iː ɡ ɛ z / ro-DREE-ghez; born June 20, 1968) [1] [2] is an American filmmaker, composer, and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas.
The US$7,225 production was originally intended for the Mexican home-video market, but executives at Columbia Pictures liked the film and bought the American distribution rights. Columbia eventually spent $200,000 to transfer the print to film, to remix the sound, and on other post-production work, then spent millions more on marketing and ...
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Vonne is the sister of filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and moved to New York City in 1990–2001 to pursue her artistic ambitions. She worked in Europe and the U.S., featured in the 2005 film Sin City as Dallas (aka Zorro Girl), Spykids, Desperado, Machete Kills, Four Rooms, and appeared in national/international commercials and other film work.
Troublemaker Studios is an American independent production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellán. [1]The company is based in Austin, Texas, and is at the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport.
The trilogy began with the 1993 ultra low-budget production of El Mariachi.The film was made on a budget of only US$7,000 using 16-millimeter film, was shot entirely in Mexico with a mostly amateur cast, and was originally intended to go directly to the Mexican home-video market (a process detailed in Rodriguez's book Rebel Without a Crew).
Rodriguez then created his first feature-length film El Mariachi which was picked up by Columbia Pictures. After directing the television film Roadracers, Rodriguez continued work in Hollywood. El Mariachi was the first of Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy that included Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.