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Primero Soy Mexicana
''Primero Soy Mexicana'' ("First I Am Mexican") is the second studio album by Mexican singer Ángela Aguilar, released on March 2, 2018, by Machin Records. The album was produced by Aguilar's father, Pepe Aguilar and features ranchera and mariachi music. Her grandmother Flor Silvestre's first film, ''Primero soy mexicano'', inspired the album's title. The album earned a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Ranchero Album at the 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2018 and a Grammy nomination for Best Regional Mexican Music Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019. Recordings ''Primero Soy Mexicana'' features eleven well known ranchera songs previously performed by other artists who Aguilar considers strong female artists in the ranchera genre. The album was recorded at the Aguilar family ranch "Rancho El Soyate" in Villanueva, Zacatecas. The first track, “Ya No Me Interesas”, was previously recorded by Mexican singer Lucha Villa on her 1985 album, ''Interpreta a Juan Gabr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángela Aguilar
Ángela Aguilar Álvarez Alcalá (born October 8, 2003) is a Mexican-American singer. She was born in Los Angeles while her mother was accompanying her father, Pepe Aguilar, on tour. Aguilar gained notable recognition after performing " La Llorona" at the 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2019. Her grandparents are the actors and singers from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre. Her debut solo studio album, '' Primero Soy Mexicana'' (2018), was met with critical acclaim and success. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award and two Latin Grammy Awards, becoming one of the youngest artists nominated for both awards. Early life Ángela Aguilar Álvarez Alcalá was born to Pepe Aguilar and Aneliz Álvarez Alcalá in Los Angeles, California on October 8, 2003, while her father was on tour. She was named after her great-grandmother Ángela Márquez Barraza Valle, her father's paternal grandmother. Aguilar has dual citizenship with Mexico and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Día (Dallas)
''Al Día'' is a general information Spanish language news medium that serves the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Al Día publishes daily on aldiadallas.com, and once-a-week (Wednesday) print edition. It is published by DallasNews Corporation (formerly A. H. Belo) and is a sister publication of ''The Dallas Morning News''. It has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas. Awards ''Al Día'' has received several awards from the NAHP, NAHJ and Texas-APME. Online Al Día publishes news stories on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It also publishes newsletters every week. Al Día also publishes an ePaper edition every Wednesday. See also * '' El Día'' * ''El Nuevo Herald'' * ''La Opinión'' * ''La Voz de Houston ''La Voz de Houston'' (Spanish: "The Voice of Houston") is a Spanish-language weekly newspaper distributed by the ''Houston Chronicle'', and a subsidiary of the ''Houston Chronicle''. The newspaper's offices are located in the ''Houston Chronicle ...'' References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Beltrán
María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz (7 March 1932 – 24 March 1996), known professionally as Lola Beltrán, was a Mexican actress and singer. Beltrán is and was one of Mexico's most acclaimed singers of Ranchera and Huapango music. She made the famous song "Priscila elque se fue" collaborations with other acclaimed Mexican music stars such as Amalia Mendoza, Juan Gabriel and Lucha Villa. She was internationally renowned for her interpretation of the songs "Cucurrucucú paloma" and " Paloma Negra" as well as sang before many world leaders. She was nicknamed ''Lola la Grande'' ("Lola the Great"). Her song ''Soy infeliz'' ("I'm unhappy") was the opening music for Pedro Almodóvar's film ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown''. On cinema, she made her film debut on ''El cantor del circo'' (1940) an Argentine film. She also shared credits with famous and important Mexican movie stars such as Emilio Fernández, Ignacio López Tarso, Katy Jurado, María Félix and Pedro Armendári ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Méndez
Tomás Méndez (born Tomás Méndez Sosa; July 25, 1927 – June 19, 1995) was a Mexican composer and singer of Mexican music and ranchera music. He was born in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. He obtained his first success in 1954 with the Mexican music song "Gorrioncillo pecho amarillo" and continued in the same year with the huapangos like "Cucurrucucú paloma" and "Desafío". He died in Mexico City on June 19, 1995. The song "Cucurrucucú paloma" was played in many movie pictures like '' The Last Sunset'', '' Happy Together'', ''Talk to Her'' and '' The Five Year Engagement'' and has also been performed by notable singers such as Harry Belafonte, Perry Como, Lola Beltrán and Caetano Veloso. Songs *"Pobre Leña de Pirul" *"Gorrioncillo pecho amarillo" *"Cucurrucucú paloma "Cucurrucucú paloma" (Spanish for ''Coo-coo dove'') is a Mexican huapango-style song written by Tomás Méndez in 1954. The title is an onomatopeic reference to the characteristic call of the mourning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucurrucucú Paloma
"Cucurrucucú paloma" (Spanish for ''Coo-coo dove'') is a Mexican huapango-style song written by Tomás Méndez in 1954. The title is an onomatopeic reference to the characteristic call of the mourning dove, which is evoked in the refrain. The lyrics allude to love sickness. Over the years the song has been used in the soundtrack of several films and has gained international popularity. It initially appeared in the classic Mexican comedy ''Escuela de vagabundos'' screened in 1955, where it was sung by the star of the film, Pedro Infante. The song also gave its name to the 1965 Mexican film '' Cucurrucucú Paloma'', directed by Miguel Delgado, in which it was performed by Lola Beltrán, who starred as "Paloma Méndez". In Pedro Almodovar's film '' Talk to Her'' (2002) the piece is rendered by the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso in an art-song style quite different from the mariachi folk-kitsch of its original cinema presentation. Other films in which the song is used incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia León
Eugenia León (born June 7, 1956) is a Mexican singer. In 1985, she won first place at the prestigious OTI Festival in Seville, Spain with the theme "El Fandango Aquí" by . A winner of the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, she has had a career spanning more than 35 years and 26 recorded albums, of which several million copies have been sold. She has performed in some of the most important venues in Mexico, such as the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Auditorio Nacional, the , the Teatro de la Ciudad, and the Cervantino Festival. Internationally, León has been acclaimed at the Royal Opera House in Oman, the Concert Center Hall in Shanghai, the opera houses of Cairo and Alexandria, the Palace of Marrakesh, the Universal Forum of Culture in Barcelona, the European Parliament in Brussels, the Teatro Colón of Bogotá, the Teatro Oriente in Santiago, the Lincoln Center's Mexico Now Festival, the Central Park Latin Festival, Joe's Pub and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavela Vargas
Isabel Vargas Lizano (17 April 1919 – 5 August 2012), better known as Chavela Vargas (), was a Mexican singer. She was especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras, but she is also recognized for her contribution to other genres of popular Latin American music. She was an influential interpreter in the Americas and Europe, muse to figures such as Pedro Almodóvar, hailed for her haunting performances, and called "la voz áspera de la ternura", 'the rough voice of tenderness'.Boccanera, Jorge, Entrelineas: Dialogos con Jorge Boccanera, ed. Mario José Grabivker (Buenos Aires: Ediciones instituto movilizador fondos cooperativos C.L., 1999) The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences presented her with a Latin Grammy in 2007. Early life and career She was born in Costa Rica, in San Joaquín de Flores, as Isabel Vargas Lizano, daughter of Francisco Vargas and Herminia Lizano. She was baptized on 15 July 1919 with the forenames "María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Llorona
''La Llorona'' (; "The Weeping Woman" or "The Wailer") is a Hispanic-American mythical vengeful ghost who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned. Origins Early colonial times provided evidence that the lore is pre-Hispanic, originating in the central highlands. However, La ''Llorona'' is most commonly associated with the colonial era and the dynamic between Spanish ''conquistadores'' and indigenous women. The most common lore about La ''Llorona'' includes her initially being an Indigenous woman who murdered her own children, which she bore from a wealthy Spaniard, after he abandoned her. The villainous qualities of La ''Llorona'', including infanticide and the murdering of one's own blood is assumed to be connected to the narrative surrounding Doña Marina, also known as La ''Malinche'', or Maltinzin in her original nomenclature. Today, the lore of La ''Llorona'' is well known in Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The earliest docume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Río Roma
Río Roma are a Mexican Latin pop duo. It consists of brothers José Luis Ortega Castro (born January 17, 1981) and Raúl Ortega Castro (born July 17, 1984). José Luis is also a prolific songwriter. Famous singers who had recorded songs written by him include: Ha*Ash, María José, Alejandro Fernández, Yuridia, Camila, Alejandra Guzmán and Pandora, among others. They chose "Río Roma" as their name because of how it sounds and it reads "Oír Amor" (hearing love) backwards. Biography From 1997 until 2002, José Luis was member of Mexican boy band A boy band is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Generally, boy bands perform Love song, love songs marketed towards girls and young ... Ciao Mama, with whom he recorded two albums: "Ciao Mama" in 1999, and "Puntos Suspensivos..." in 2001, both under EMI Music México. In 2008 José Luis and Raúl recorded a Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cielo Rojo (song)
"Cielo rojo" (Red Sky) is a huapango song written by Juan Záizar, a singer-songwriter from the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is one of Mexican singer Flor Silvestre's greatest hits and also one of her signature songs. She first recorded it in 1957 with the Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán for the RCA Víctor label. Four years later, in 1961, she recorded a new version with the Mariachi México of Pepe Villa for the Musart label. The success of her interpretation of this song became the breakthrough of her musical career. She sang it in the film ''El ciclón'' (1959), where it was used as a theme song, and as a duet with Luis Aguilar in ''Juan sin miedo'' (1961). Other versions "Cielo rojo" has been covered by two of Flor's granddaughters, Majo Aguilar and Ángela Aguilar. Majo recorded it as a single in 2016 and included it in her first extended play, ''Tributo'' (2017). Ángela recorded it as a single in 2018 and included it in her second studio album, ''Primero Soy Mexicana '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cielito Lindo
"Cielito Lindo" is a popular Mexican song '' copla'', popularized in 1882 by Mexican author Quirino Mendoza y Cortés (c. 1862–1957). It is roughly translated as "Lovely Sweet One". Although the word ''cielo'' means "sky" or "heaven", it is also a term of endearment comparable to "sweetheart" or "honey." ''Cielito'', the diminutive, can be translated as "sweetie"; ''lindo'' means "cute", "lovely" or "pretty". Sometimes the song is known by words from the refrain, "Canta y no llores" or simply the "Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay song". Commonly played by mariachi bands, it has been recorded by many artists in the original Spanish as well as in English and other languages. There is some debate as to whether the song talks about the Sierra Morena, a mountain range in the south region of Spain, or the similarly named Sierra Morones in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. It has become a famous song of Mexico, especially in Mexican expatriate communities around the world or for Mexicans attending inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuco Sánchez
José Refugio "Cuco" Sánchez Saldaña (3 May 1921 – 5 October 2000) was a Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. Sánchez was one of Mexico's most popular singers and recorded most of his singles and studio albums for Columbia Records. He is also one of Mexico's most famous and prolific songwriters. His songs include "Anillo de compromiso", "Anoche estuve llorando", "Por qué peca esa mujer", "Fallaste, corazón", "La cama de piedra", "Siempre hace frío", "Arrieros somos", "No soy monedita de oro", "Del cielo cayó una rosa", "Cariño santo", "Nuestro gran amor", "Grítenme, piedras del campo", and "¡Qué manera de perder!". He also acted in films and television series. Life and career Sánchez was born in Altamira, a port city on the Gulf of Mexico, to José Refugio Sánchez and Felipa Saldaña Cabello. He began writing verses in his early years and later learned how to play the guitar. In 1937, at age 15, he wrote his first hit song, "Mi chata", which was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
