![]() ![]() The youngsters, still young teens, started playing local gigs at night to earn money for their father's medical bills. Eduardo Hernández, suffered a tragic accident causing a serious back injury that left him unable to walk. These songs truly inspired Jorge, who desperately wanted to become a professional singer and songwriter. The youngsters memorized verse after verse about historic and folkloric figures including Pancho Villa and learned to play as a band. They taught the boys the revolutionary-era corridos about bandits and rebels, horses and heroes. Aside from commercial music, they picked up songs from the oral traditions older men in town taught them. At these parties, the Hernandez brothers were introduced to other top norteño acts including Los Alegres de Terán, and national mariachi stars including Pedro Infante. ![]() The acts were already making money across the border, and were known only in the United States at the time.ĭuring festivals, locals would set up a Victrola with a bullhorn for a speaker. Jorge heard the music of major norteño artists including Freddie Gómez, Los Donneños, and Los Dos Gilbertos, for the first time. Amid the region's hilly terrain it managed to pull in just one radio station -– a 150,000-watt powerhouse from Harlingen, Texas - that played pure norteño music exclusively. It was the only electronic device of its kind. Jorge still insists that the day his grandmother brought home a Philco radio changed the course of his family's lives. The Hernandez family lived and worked in Rosa Morada, a tiny village located in the municipality of Mocorito in Sinaloa. ![]() Their parents were campesinos, small farmers who worked the land with ox-drawn plows. The group is centered on lead vocalist and accordionist Jorge Hernández (the oldest of 11 children), who is joined in Los Tigres by his brothers Hernán (bass, vocals), Eduardo (accordion, saxophone, bass, vocals), and Luis (bajo sexto, vocals) - he replaced older brother Raul Hernandez who'd left to pursue a solo career during the 1990s - and cousin, Oscar Lara (drums). In 2021 they issued Y Su Palabra Es La Ley: Homenaje A Vicente Fernandez and followed it with La Reunion in 2022. In 2019, Los Tigres del Norte were the first musical act since Johnny Cash to film a concert at Folsom Prison. 2011's MTV Unplugged is among the series' most successful volumes, and 2014's number one Realidades discussed the harsh realities of immigrants. 1989's Corridos Prohibidos kicked off the modern narcocorrido movement, paving the way for the 21st century's alterna-movimiento. The following year's A Ti Madrecita marked their first million-seller. 1984's Jaula de Oro was their first chart-topper. Their 1974 breakthrough single, "Contrabando y Traición," about a drug deal and love story gone bad, sold on both sides of the border, establishing them in the U.S. Over more than 70 albums - including 22 number ones - they turned norteño, an accordion-based polka music indigenous to Northern Mexico, into commercially viable pop music, infusing the tradition with boleros, cumbias, rock rhythms, waltzes, and sound effects. Since the late 1960s, this family band has detailed the struggles and triumphs, romances, and heartbreaks of working people, families, immigrants, outlaws, politicians, and farmers. Los Tigres del Norte are an internationally successful norteño group from Mexico based in California. ![]()
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