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Appreciation: 10 essential songs of ranchera legend Vicente Fernández. December 12, 2021 at 6:39 PM. Vicente Fernandez flanked by Alex Fernandez, left, and Alejandro Fernández onstage during the ...
The most popular ranchera composers include Lucha Reyes, Cuco Sánchez, Antonio Aguilar, Juan Gabriel and José Alfredo Jiménez, who composed many of the best-known rancheras, with compositions totaling more than 1,000 songs, making him one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of western music. [citation needed]
Ranchera songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez was the most successful composer of the 50s, as nine of his songs appear on the year-end charts throughout the decade. Cuban bandleader Dámaso Pérez Prado was the greatest exponent of the mambo craze that swept Mexico in the 50s.
Ranchera songs — Regional Mexican songs of the Ranchera genre. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. A. Pepe Aguilar ...
Valdés Leal's "Entre Copa y Copa" became a popular ranchera song during the genre's early days. [14] He became one of the greatest ranchera composers. [15] In the 1950s, ranchera music became the most popular Latin music genre in the United States following the success of Valdés Leal, José Alfredo Jiménez, and Vicente Fernández. [16]
As of 2025, 367 Latin songs have entered the Hot 100 chart, 1 in the 1950s, 1 in the 1960s, 2 in the 1970s, 1 in the 1980s, 5 in the 1990s, 36 in the 2000s, 80 in the 2010s and 241 in the 2020s. A total of 25 singles managed to reach the top 10 and 4 have peaked at number 1. Only 5 Latin songs reached the top 10 between 1958 and 2016.
The song won a Grammy in 1958 for best R&B performance, and in 2001, the song was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Michael Ochs Archives - Getty Images “Diana” by Paul Anka (1957)
The song is a typical ranchera, with mariachi choruses and lyrics dealing with life in a traditional Mexican ranch.The American arrangement of the song was copyrighted as a "rumba", [10] a term largely used in the US to denote Americanized Afro-Cuban and Latin ballroom music According to the book The Course of Mexican Music,