For millions of families on both sides of the border these are not songs anybody discovered. They were already playing at every backyard party and every quinceanera before you were old enough to ask who was singing.
Five decades of corridos about migration, love, struggle and pride, handed down the way recipes are handed down. When the group plays San Diego, three generations show up dressed for it, grandparents and parents and kids who learned every word without once being taught, and the whole arena sings 'Jefe de Jefes' and 'La Puerta Negra' loudly enough that the band could stop playing and nothing would be lost.
Pechanga Arena on a Saturday night in November.
Bring your parents. Wear the boots. Then stand inside a living piece of cultural history and let it work on you the way it has always worked on them.
For millions of families on both sides of the border these are not songs anybody discovered. They were already playing at every backyard party and every quinceanera before you were old enough to ask who was singing.
Five decades of corridos about migration, love, struggle and pride, handed down the way recipes are handed down. When the group plays San Diego, three generations show up dressed for it, grandparents and parents and kids who learned every word without once being taught, and the whole arena sings 'Jefe de Jefes' and 'La Puerta Negra' loudly enough that the band could stop playing and nothing would be lost.
Pechanga Arena on a Saturday night in November.
Bring your parents. Wear the boots. Then stand inside a living piece of cultural history and let it work on you the way it has always worked on them.
For millions of families on both sides of the border these are not songs anybody discovered. They were already playing at every backyard party and every quinceanera before you were old enough to ask who was singing.
Five decades of corridos about migration, love, struggle and pride, handed down the way recipes are handed down. When the group plays San Diego, three generations show up dressed for it, grandparents and parents and kids who learned every word without once being taught, and the whole arena sings 'Jefe de Jefes' and 'La Puerta Negra' loudly enough that the band could stop playing and nothing would be lost.
Pechanga Arena on a Saturday night in November.
Bring your parents. Wear the boots. Then stand inside a living piece of cultural history and let it work on you the way it has always worked on them.