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Song about the battle of Ciudad Juarez title Toma de Ciudad Juárez. In the Mestizo-Mexican cultural area, the three variants of corrido (romance, revolutionary and modern) are both alive and sung, along with popular sister narrative genres, such as the "valona" of Michoacán state, the "son arribeño" of the Sierra Gorda (Guanajuato, Hidalgo and Querétaro states) and others.
Beto Quintanilla was originally from Reynosa, a small town in Tamaulipas.The date of his birth is unknown, but was some time around 1948. As a child, Quintanilla composed poems or odes to his mother, his teacher, his school, and his country.
Los Cadetes de Linares was a Mexican norteño band famous for their corridos, traditional ballad-style songs about social causes, criminals or heroes in the northern parts of Mexico.
"Corrido de la Cucaracha", lithograph (published in 1915) by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo La Cucaracha (Spanish pronunciation: [la kukaˈɾatʃa], "The Cockroach") is a popular folk song about a cockroach who cannot walk.
Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla (16 August 1930 – 25 November 2020) [1] known professionally as Flor Silvestre, was a Mexican singer and actress. [2] She was one of the most prominent and successful performers of Mexican and Latin American music, [3] and was a star of classic Mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Francisco Avitia Tapia (13 May 1915 – 29 June 1995), commonly known as "El Charro Avitia", was a Mexican singer, primarily of ranchera and corrido genres. [1] His best known songs include "Maquina 501," "Caballo alazán lucero," and "El Muchacho Alegre".
The song "La Adelita" depicts the brave women who fought and traveled with the Federales and the revolutionary army. [3] The song speaks of Adelita as someone who is pretty and the object of desire for many of the soldiers, but who also has bravery and commands respect. [3]
A narcocorrido (Spanish pronunciation: [naɾkokoˈriðo], "narco-corrido" or drug ballad) is a subgenre of the Regional Mexican corrido (narrative ballad) genre, from which several other genres have evolved.