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Norteño or Norteña (Spanish pronunciation: [noɾˈteɲo], northern), also música norteña, is a subgenre of regional Mexican music. The music is most often based on duple and triple metre and its lyrics often deal with socially relevant topics, although there are also many norteño love songs.
Ramón Covarrubias Garza (born 8 December 1945), known by his stage name Ramón Ayala, is a Mexican singer, accordion player, composer and songwriter of Norteño music. [4] He is also known as the "King of the Accordion". [5]
Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) [1] is an American singer, songwriter and accordionist from San Antonio, Texas.He is known for playing Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music.
Norteño/conjunto accordion pioneer Narciso Martínez, known as the "Father of Conjunto Music", defined the accordion's role in conjunto music. He learned many tunes from German, Polish and Czech brass bands and transposed them to accordion. [7] Martínez gave accordion playing a new virtuosity in the 1930s, when he adopted the two button row ...
Grupo Frontera is a Mexican-American regional Mexican band from Edinburg, Texas. The band consists of Adelaido "Payo" Solís III (vocals, bajo quinto ), Juan Javier Cantú (vocals, accordion), Julian Peña Jr. ( congas ), Alberto "Beto" Acosta (bajo quinto), Carlos Guerrero (drums), and Brian Ortega (bass guitar).
The accordion is popular among folk punk and folk rock bands who perform music from countries that often use the accordion, such as in the subgenres of celtic punk and gypsy punk. Such bands include The Dreadnoughts, Gogol Bordello, the Zydepunks, and Flogging Molly. The accordion has been a primary instrument in Mexican music.
Mexican conjunto music, also known as conjunto tejano, was born in south Texas at the end of the 19th century, after German settlers introduced the button accordion.The bajo sexto has come to accompany the button accordion and is integral to the conjunto sound.
Calibre 50 (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈliβɾe siŋˈkwenta]) is a regional Mexican band. Formed in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, in 2010 by Edén Muñoz, the band has had several lineup changes, with the current roster consisting of lead vocalist Beto Gastélum, backing vocalist & twelve-string guitarist Tony Elizondo, diatonic accordionist Martín "Trompudo" López, sousaphonist Alejandro Gaxiola ...