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Guadalajara" is a well-known mariachi song written and composed by Pepe Guízar in 1937. [1] [2] Guízar wrote the song in honor of his hometown, the city of the same name and state capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Commonly played by mariachi bands, it has been recorded by many artists in the original Spanish as well as in English and other languages, including by Tito Guizar, Pedro Infante, Vicente Fernandez, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Eartha Kitt, The Wiggles, Menudo and Ana Gabriel.
El Rey is a song by Mexican singer José Alfredo Jiménez, known for its popularity in the mariachi genre.
"Las Mañanitas" Spanish pronunciation: [las maɲaˈnitas] is a traditional Mexican [1] birthday song written by Mexican composer Alfonso Esparza Oteo.It is popular in Mexico, usually sung early in the morning to awaken the birthday person, and especially as part of the custom of serenading women.
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,
"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.
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"No Me Queda Más" is a downtempo mariachi and pop ballad, incorporating ranchera and flamenco influences into its sound. [9] [10] [11] Musicologists Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum called the song a bolero-mariachi mix. [12] This was echoed by the Lexington Herald-Leader, which noted its bolero influences. [13]