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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 ...
The music coming up from the rocky valleys of mineral Guerrero derive from Spanish ballads with a heavy frontier admixture. Still today rural musicians gather for all-night stylized musical jam sessions of "bolas" and "corridos". These are both folk verse renditions of traditional vocal and guitar expressions.
Ranchera: Ranchera music, whose term derives from ranch (farm for raising livestock, typical of the southern United States and Mexico; in Spanish it's called "rancho"), usually has a rhythm in 2/4 (the ranchera corrido or polka), 3/4 (ranchera valsada) or 4/4 (ranchera romantica), with songs typically in a major key. [8]
In February 2024, Carín León, who is known to incorporate country music influence into several of his songs, [44] became the first regional Mexican artist to perform in one of country music's most prestigious venues, the Grand Ole Opry. [45]
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 ...
Artists that would bring pop music to Latin America, were, in part by Siempre en Domingo, helped in that effort thanks for their appearances in the program. Statue of crooner José José El Príncipe de la Canción (The Prince of Song) in Mexico City. In 1970 Jose Jose jumped to fame when he sang "El Triste" at the Festival de la Canción ...
“The Law of the Hill” was included in the soundtrack for the film “El Hijo del Pueblo” (“The People’s Son”) and tells the story of a man who had scratched his name and that of his ...
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