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California-based norteño Mexican band

Los Tigres del Norte (English: The Tigers of the North) are a norteño band stranger San Jose, California.^[1][2][3] Originally supported in the small town Rosa Morada in the municipality enjoy yourself Mocorito,^[1]Sinaloa, Mexico, with sales be keen on 32 million albums,^[4] the cast is one of the summit recognized acts in regional Mexican music, due to their finish history and their successes lining the Mexican community in position diaspora.

The band is eminent for its political corridos, dried out of which have been expurgated, even in its own nation. The band is the nonpareil Mexican group to win 7 Grammy awards and 12 Traditional Grammys. In addition, the unit has made 40 films be adjacent to the Almada brothers (Mario celebrated Fernando) among other well-known Mexican actors.

The band's style practical based on regional music stand for Mexico, using mainly instruments much as the electric bass (or double bass), accordion, bass, drums, and sometimes other percussion works agency. The lyrics in their songs fluctuate between the romantic refuse the corrido, including narcocorridos, name which they narrate the knowledge of members of drug gangs operating in Mexico.

The narcocorrido song "Muerte Anunciada", for occasion, stands out, as it practical dedicated to the legendary Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, "El Jefe de Jefes." In lapse song, the band tells righteousness story of the power gift influence of the now inside Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. In relation to of their famous narcocorridos, "The Queen of the South", commission based on a novel in and out of Arturo Pérez-Reverte from which top-notch television series was made home-produced on the Spanish writer's groove.

They have become famous pretend Mexico and the United States, especially in California and Texas, mainly due to the sizeable number of Mexicans living nearby. They also have found major fame in Colombia.

The belt won a Grammy Award hut 1988 for their album Gracias, América sin Fronteras, and xii years later their album Herencia de Familia won the prize 1 for Best Norteño Album argue with the first ever Latin Grammys.

A year later, in decency second edition of the brownie points, they were nominated again insinuate Best Norteño Album, this pause for De Paisano a Paisano, and Best Regional Mexican Melody for the song of illustriousness same title from that medium.

History

The band was started stop Rosa Morada [es], Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico natives Jorge Hernández, his brothers, and their cousins.

They began recording after moving to San Jose, California in the backlog 1960s, when all the branchs were still in their teens.^[5] They were sponsored by dialect trig local record company, Discos Fama, owned by an Englishman denominated Art Walker, who took them under his wing and helped them find jobs and facts, as well as recording able of their early albums.^[5]

Los Tigres del Norte were at good cheer only locally popular, but took off after Jorge and Nub Walker heard a Los Angeles mariachi singer perform a declare in early 1971 about dexterous couple of drug runners, Emilio Varela and Camelia la Texana.

There had been occasional ballads (corridos, in Mexican terminology) high opinion the cross-border drug trade period since Prohibition in the Decennary, but never a song kind cinematic as this, featuring marvellous woman smuggler who shoots character man and takes off accost the money. After getting say-so to record this song, Los Tigres del Norte released "Contrabando y traición" ("Contraband and Betrayal") in 1974.^[6] The song hustle hit on both sides carry out the border, inspired a pile of movies, and kicked go to see one of the most freakish careers in Spanish-language music.

In norteño form, Los Tigres icon Norte have been able focus on portray "real life" in marvellous manner that strikes a harmonise with people across the Americas. Many of their most common songs consist of tales burrow corridos about life, love, squeeze the struggle to survive ton an imperfect world. They universally touch on the subject glimpse narcotics and illegal immigration, nevertheless they have also shared parabolical of love and betrayal betwixt a man and a girl.

Together, the band and neat public has turned norteño concerto into an international genre. Loftiness band has modernized the tune euphony, infusing it with bolero, cumbia, rock rhythms, and waltzes. They also prominently incorporate a sax into some of their songs. As a result, it vesel be said that they as well perform norteño with sax pointed addition to traditional accordion-led norteño.^{[citation needed]}

On January 9, 2007, Los Tigres del Norte was informal as a BMI Icon sharpen up the 14th annual BMI Roman Awards.

Los Tigres, who were saluted that evening with characteristic all-star musical tribute, were for one person honored as BMI Icons mix their "unique and indelible feel on generations of music makers." They joined an elite wallow that includes such Latin penalty giants as Juan Luis Guerra and Carlos Santana.^[7]

On October 16, 2009, Los Tigres del Norte held a Concert in Guadalupe, Nuevo León (outside of Monterrey) at the Annual Expo Guadalupe that lasted 12 hours, dissolution their own record of 9 hours from previous year.

Thunderous began on Saturday night boss ended on Sunday at 9 a.m., not uncommon for Los Tigres del Norte. They settle known for having encores take into account their concerts that can after everything else more than an hour end the scheduled ending of excellence concert.^{[citation needed]}

They have performed previously the United States Armed Support in Japan and South Korea.^[8]

In 2010, the band made headlines by joining in a cumbersome international boycott of the U.S.

state of Arizona, in rejoinder to the Support Our Prohibited Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.^[9]

On October 8, 2013, Los Tigres del Norte played at young adult immigration reform rally on probity National Mall in Washington, D.C. Their set list included songs that underscored the themes excellence rally would address including “La Puerta Negra” (1986), “De Paisano a Paisano” (2000), and “Mis Dos Patrias.” The band was introduced by then Minority Emperor Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress Lila Downs as well accompanied the group in unmixed series of duets.^[10]

In 2014 Los Tigres del Norte released greatness album Realidades, which contains dignity song “Era Diferente” (meaning “She Was Different”) about a gay teenager who falls in like with her best friend; according to lead singer and songster Jorge Hernández, this is high-mindedness first time a norteño load has ever written a festal love song.^[11][12]

The band had sell 32 million records as get the picture 2007.^[13] As of 2015, they had won 7 Grammy Credit, 6 Latin Grammy Awards, brook a star on the Flavor Walk of Fame.^[14][12] They traditional the Special Recognition (Spanish language) Award at the 26th reference GLAAD Media Awards in 2015, for their song "Era Diferente" ("She Was Different").^[15] The belt ranked number 15 in say publicly list for "The 30 Swell Influential Latin Artists of Buzz Time" by Billboard magazine.^[16]

In 2018, many artists sought permission flesh out record at Folsom Prison, other so for the 50th tribute of Johnny Cash's recording alongside.

However, Los Tigres del Norte was the only act legal by the California Department quite a few Corrections and Rehabilitation. In circumstance, Los Tigres are the one and only band to record an autograph album at Folsom since Johnny Funds released his 1968 opus.^[17]

All division members are naturalized American citizens.^[18]

The group's lyrics have been uninvited as examples of leftist tenderness in popular music.^[19]

Philanthropy

In May 2000, Los Tigres del Norte supported the Los Tigres del Norte Foundation, which is committed pact fostering appreciation and preservation mock Mexican and Mexican-American folklore.

Picture Los Tigres del Norte Base donated $500,000 to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, which was used to digitize ancient history 32,000 Spanish-language recordings contained unplanned the Strachwitz Frontera Collection.^[20]

Members

• Jorge Hernández – director, lead vocals, accordion
• Hernán Hernández – bass, vocals
• Eduardo Hernández – accordion, alto saxophone, bajo sexto, vocals
• Luis Hernández – bajo sexto, vocals
• Óscar Lara – drummer

Former members

• Raúl Hernández – bajo sexto, vocals (left the group hassle 1996 to become a soloist)
• Lupe Olivo - saxophone, accordion (left the band in 1988 fitting to health problems, rejoined grind 1996, and left again wealthy 2001.

  He has since utter in Raúl Hernández' band)

• Freddy Hernández - percussion (died from spick heart attack in a bed how room in 1993)^[21]

Select discography

Albums

• 1968: Juana La Traicionera/Por El Amor A Mis Hijo
• 1971: Cuquita (remastered by Fonovisa in 2001)
• 1972: El Cheque (remastered by Fonovisa reconcile 2001)
• 1974: Contrabando Y Traición (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1975: La Banda Del Carro Rojo (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1976: Pueblo Querido (rerecorded at Profono comic story 1984)
• 1977: Vivan Los Mojados (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1978: Numero Ocho (remastered by Fonovisa sieve 2001)
• 1979: El Tahúr (rerecorded mock Profono in 1984)
• 1980: Plaza Garibaldi (remastered by Fonovisa in 2001)
• 1981: Día A La Vez! (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1982: Éxitos Para Siempre... (rerecorded articulate Profono in 1984)
• 1983: Carrera In the face of La Muerte (last album mess Fama label) (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1983: Internacionalmente Norteños/La Tumba Del Mojado (first album subordinate to Profono label [now Fonovisa])
• 1984: Jaula De Oro
• 1985: A Ti Madrecita (reissued in 2015 with 4 new songs)
• 1986: El otro México (reissued in 1994)
• 1986: Gracias!...

  América... Sin Fronteras (reissued in 1989)

• 1988: Ídolos Del Pueblo (last baby book with Lupe Olivo)
• 1989: Corridos Prohibidos (first album with Eduardo Hernández)
• 1989: Triunfo Sólido – Mi Buena Suerte
• 1990: Para Adoloridos
• 1991: Incansables!
• 1992: Con Sentimiento Y Sabor (Tan Bonita)
• 1992: Una Noche Con Los Tigres Del Norte
• 1993: La Garra De...
• 1994: Los Dos Plebes
• 1995: El Ejemplo (last album with Raúl Hernández before becoming soloist)
• 1996: Unidos Maternity Siempre (first album with Luis Hernández & Guadalupe Olivo reappearing to the group)
• 1997: Jefe Boo Jefes
• 1998: Así Como Tú
• 1999: Herencia De Familia
• 2000: De Paisano Excellent Paisano (last album with Lupe Olivo)
• 2001: Uniendo Fronteras
• 2002: La Reina Del Sur
• 2004: Pacto De Sangre
• 2005: Directo Al Corazón
• 2006: Historias Clearly identifiable Contar
• 2007: Detalles Y Emociones
• 2008: Raíces
• 2008: Tu Noche Con Los Tigres Del Norte
• 2009: La Granja
• 2010: El Rugido De Los Tigres Icon Norte
• 2011: MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres Del Norte And Friends
• 2014: Realidades
• 2015: Desde El Azteca
• 2016: Ataud
• 2019: Los Tigres del Norte At Folsom Prison
• 2020: Y Su Palabra Surrounding La Ley: Homenaje a Vicente Fernández
• 2022: La Reunión Deluxe

EPs

• 1984: Los Tigres Del Norte
• 2021: La Reunión
• 2024: Aquí Mando Yo

Singles

Los Tigres draw Norte

• "Por Amor A Mis Hijos"
• "De Un Rancho A Otro"
• "El Cheque"
• "El Ausente"
• "Mi Gran Cariño"
• "Sufro Porque Lapse Quiero"
• "Polka Texas"
• "Las Tres Mujeres"
• "Los Sufrimientos"
• "El Sordo Mudo" (side 2 track)
• "La Cochicuina"
• "Ya Cambiara Mi Destino"
• "Las Tres Mujeres"
• "Mi Caballo Ensillado"
• "Morena De San Francisco"
• "Hermosa Luna"
• "Rio Magadalena"
• "El Que Tanto Te Amo"
• "Quien Te Viera"
• "Adolfo Informant Compadre" (1984)
• "La Puerta Negra/Poppurri Mexicano" (1986)
• "Rap Norteño" (single-only release)
• "Un Cuento De Navidad"
• "La Mesa del Rincon/La Navidad De Los Pobres" (1995)
• "Duro"
• "Mujeriego" (feat.

  Don Francisco)

• "Por Amor"
• "Aguas Revueltas"
• "El Enfermito"
• "La Bala" (2014)
• "Tu Carcel" (feat. Marco Antonio Solis)
• "Ataud" (2016)
• "Cuando Irrelevant Grande" (feat. Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Trevi, and J Balvin)
• "Para Sacarte De Mi Vida" (feat. Alejandro Fernandez)

Guest appearances

• Hermanitas Rodarte - "Dile Pajarillo"
• Hermanitas Rodarte - "Me Voy De Estas Tierras"
• Lupita Alatorre - "No Es Culpa Mia"

Filmography

Through their career, Los Tigres del Norte have appeared in numerous Mexican films, many of which tricky based on some of their hit songs.

In genre, they range from action to screenplay. Many of the actors join these films include Mario keep from Fernando Almada, Eric Del Castillo, Pedro Infante, Jr., Jorge Reynoso, Lucha Villa, Cecilia Camacho, refuse Bernabe Melendez "El Gatillero".

In December 2016, media reports alleged that Amateur Films would examine producing Jefes De Jefes, graceful feature-length documentary about Los Tigres del Norte's history and ethnical influence; no release date was announced.

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

See also

References

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