Christian Salazar of Los Desvelados, an L.A.-based corrido group, was drawn to the box-like instrument for its ability ... like an attention hog." Almost every mariachi band includes an oversize ...

The rhythmic style — known as a corrido — is recognizable to just about every soul in the Latin ... their classical band instruments and the accordion rooted in German and Polish migration ...

The pioneer of corridos tumbados, Cano delivers hard-hitting, hip-hop infused tracks about the every-day hustle out on the streets and the challenges that come with fame — all while flaunting a ...

which absorb many elements of old-fashioned corridos: nasal voices, tololoche, accordion or brass instruments, strummed guitars. “At the beginning I was freaked out a bit” by the lyrics ...

It took only a few hours for musicians to start uploading songs, mostly corridos, about that escape ... When I lived in Mexico, for every taxi driver I met who would blast them, I'd also meet ...