Luis Valdez's original Corridos (1984) was a revue of dramatized musical vignettes based on traditional and contemporary Mexican folk ballads about passion, insurrection, and crime. In this completely ...
MEXICO CITY — At a Mexican military base, Captain Eduardo Barrón picks up not a rifle but a microphone. Swaying boot-to-boot, he belts out a song as the sounds of trumpets and accordions roar from a ...
What do Mulan, John Henry and the Beatles have in common?They’re all featured in the new musical “Corridos Remix: A MusicalFusion of Ballads Beyond Borders.” The show, which makes its world premiere ...
With artists like Peso Pluma and Fuerza Regida dominating the charts, we explain the different subgenres that fall under regional Mexican music. By Tere Aguilera Regional Mexican music is dominating ...
Corridos is a genre that has been around for generations. Now, it's hitting the charts in a new style, inspiring bands in New Mexico. "Corridos tumbados changed up the whole Mexican music." Corridos ...
In Mexico, the corrido ‒ a form of musical ballad used to tell classic tales of romance and struggle ‒ is nothing new, but it is now going global. From the rapid success of Grammy-nominated artist ...