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Ranchera music, generally associated with rural Mexico but popular in urban areas as well, got a considerable boost from the massive popularity of Pedro Infante (an actor and ranchera singer who was present on the Mexican music charts from the beginning of the decade until his death in 1957) and the emergence of songwriter José Alfredo ...
Ranchera (pronounced [ranˈtʃeɾa]) or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional folk music, the ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness ...
Example of a Mariachi group Jalisco's jalisciense son is the most traditional and representative style of folk music of the mariachi tradition. El Son de la Negra is one of the pieces more representative. In the 1990s, bands such as Banda Machos, and Banda Maguey popularized techno-banda. These bands were the music for the popular dance quebradita.
Tejano music soon became the most prominent in the genre and one of the fastest-growing music genres in the United States. The "Golden Age of Tejano" is considered to have ended March 31, 1995, when Selena was shot and killed. [14] Selena's music led to the genre's revival and made it marketable in the U.S. for the first time.
This is a list of music artists and bands from Mexico, categorized according to musical genre. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Ramírez-Pimienta, Juan Carlos. "El tema de la traición en tres corridos de narcotráfico y narcotraficantes: 'Carga Blanca','Contrabando y traición' y 'Chuy y Mauricio.' Hispanic Journal. XXXII.2 (Fall 2015): 161-177. Ramírez-Pimienta, Juan Carlos."El Pablote: una nueva mirada al primer corrido dedicado a un traficante de drogas ...
"El Son de la Negra" (lit. The Song of the Black Woman) is a Mexican folk song , originally from Tepic, Nayarit , [ 1 ] before its separation from the state of Jalisco , and best known from an adaptation by Jalisciense musical composer Blas Galindo in 1940 for his suite Sones de mariachi .
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 ".