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The following year-end charts were elaborated by Mejía Barquera, based on weekly charts that were published on the magazines Radiolandia for the years 1944 to 1946 and Selecciones musicales for 1948 and 1949 (the latter were taken from Roberto Ayala's 1962 book "Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión" which compiled the ...
The song was first popularized by Lucha Reyes, a Mexican singer who was born in Guadalajara and is often regarded as the "mother of ranchera music". [2]In the 1940s, Mexican singer Irma Vila recorded the song and sang it in the musical film Canta y no llores...
During WWII, Mexican-American women known as Pachucas began to challenge societal norms in relation to gender, labor, communication and representation. Guerrero's music simultaneously evolved into the Zoot Suit (Pachuca/o) music of the 1940s and 1950s.
María de Luz Flores Aceves (23 May 1906 – 25 June 1944), known by her stage name Lucha Reyes, was a Mexican singer and actress.Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, she was popular in the 1930s and 1940s and was called the "Queen of Ranchera".
Yet, despite the resistance and conservative leanings of his Latin-American audiences, Russell could observe that by the early to mid-1960s, Mexican musicians and the public were opening up and becoming receptive to combining musical styles as he himself had already done in the 1940s and 1950s.
There are many styles of northern mexican folk music, among the most popular being Ranchera, Corrido, Huapango, Chotís, Polka, Redova and Banda. Norteño folk music is some of the most popular music in and out of Mexico, with Corridos and Rancheras being specifically popular in Chile, Colombia, United States, Central America and Spain. [7]
By 1940, he was in Hollywood leading the brass section of M-G-M's studio orchestra. [4] He contributed to the films Flying Down to Rio and Hondo, among others, and from 1950 to 1975, Méndez was a full-time soloist. At his peak, he performed about 125 concerts per year and he was also very active as a recording artist.
Vicente Fernández Gómez (17 February 1940 – 12 December 2021) was a Mexican mariachi singer, actor and film producer. Nicknamed "Chente" (short for Vicente), "El Charro de Huentitán" (The Charro from Huentitán), [1] "El Ídolo de México" (The Idol of Mexico), [2] and "El Rey de la Música Ranchera" (The King of Ranchera Music), [3] Fernández started his career as a busker, and went on ...