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Sonora Santanera is an orchestra playing tropical music from Mexico with over 60 years of history. Modeled after an earlier Cuban band called Sonora Matancera , the Sonora Santanera was founded in 1955 by Carlos Colorado in the state of Tabasco , and went on to find enormous success during the 1960s.
The following year-end charts were elaborated by Mejía Barquera, based on weekly charts that were published on the magazine Selecciones musicales as compiled on Roberto Ayala's 1962 book "Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión"; those charts were, according to Ayala, based on record sales, jukebox plays, radio and television airplay, and sheet music sales [a]. [6]
Sonia López. Sonia López (born January 11, 1946) is a Mexican singer in the tropical music, bolero and cumbia idioms and actress, popular in the 1960s for several hits. Known as "La Chamaca de Oro", she is best known for hits such as Corazón de Acero, El Ladrón, El Nido, Canela Pura, De México a La Habana, Mi caprichito, and her early work with Sonora Santanera.
La Sonora Matancera is a Cuban band that played Latin American urban popular dance music. Founded in 1924 and led for more than five decades by guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer Rogelio Martínez, musicologists consider it an icon of this type of music.
La Sonora Dinamita is a Colombian [1] and Mexican [2] [3] [4] musical group that plays cumbia, a Tropical music genre from Colombia but popular throughout Latin America. As one of the first cumbia groups to reach international success, it is credited with helping to popularize the genre throughout Latin America and the world.
In this album Chayanne featured three new songs, "Y Tú Te Vas", Torero, and "Quisiera Ser" (as well as remixes of the songs "Salomé" and "Baila Baila", and a re-recorded version of "Fiesta En América"). The album peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Albums, becoming his first album to reach #1 in that category, and #199 on the Billboard 200.
Blanco was born in Caracas, Venezuela.He purchased his first musical instrument known as a cuatro at the age of 15 and learned to play it listening to the radio. Blanco created a new Venezuelan music style ‒ a fusion of Cuban music and joropo ‒ called "the orquídea" in honor of the Venezuelan national flower.
Lorenzo de Monteclaro (born September 5, 1939) is a singer of regional Mexican music. He was born with the name of Lorenzo Hernández in Cuencamé de Ceniceros, Durango, and sang for the first time on radio in the late 1950s on a Sunday talent contest called "Aficionados de los Ejidos" on XEDN (Torreón, Coahuila).