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Huapango. Huapango is a family of Mexican music styles. The word likely derives from the Nahuatl word cuauhpanco that literally means 'on top of the wood', alluding to a wooden platform on which dancers perform zapateado dance steps. It is interpreted in different forms, the most common being the classic huapango interpreted by a trio of ...
José Pablo Moncayo García (June 29, 1912 – June 16, 1958) was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and conductor. "As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez ." [ 1] He produced some of the ...
La Malagueña. Sung by Miguel Aceves Mejía. YouTube Art Track provided by RCA Records. Malagueña Salerosa — also known as La Malagueña — is a well-known Son Huasteco or Huapango song from Mexico, which has been covered more than 200 times [ 1] by recording artists . The song is that of a man telling a woman (from Málaga, Spain) how ...
Cucurrucucú paloma. " Cucurrucucú paloma " (Spanish for Coo-coo dove) is a Mexican huapango -style song written by Tomás Méndez in 1954. [ 1] 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 .
Cielito Lindo. "Cielito Lindo" is a Mexican folk song or copla popularized in 1882 by Mexican author Quirino Mendoza y Cortés ( c. 1862 – 1957). [ 1] Its title 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".
Baja California has a characteristic style derived from the huapango norteño, known as calabaceado. Calabaceado is a type of dance that was created in the 1940s, based in the fact that "norteño music" and typical cowboy cultures were being mixed, which is reflected in the dance. [1]
Mariachi Vargas De Tecalitlán is a Mexican folk ensemble of mariachi music founded in 1897 by Gaspar Vargas. Beginning in 1950 it was under the artistic guidance of the late Rubén Fuentes. The group's musical direction had been the responsibility of Don Jose "Pepe" Martínez from 1975 to around 2013-14.
Guillermo Velázquez (born 1948) is a Mexican musician from Xichú, best known for his folk music known as "arribeño huapango" and work with the Los Leones De La Sierra De Xichú. [1] The rough guide to World music describes him as "probably the greatest living arribeño trovador". [2] He is a noted organizer and contributor to festivals in ...