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Cancion Mixteca

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Que lejos estoy del suelo
Donde he nacido
Inmensa nostalgia
Invade mi pensamiento

Y al ver me tan solo y triste
Qual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar
Quisiera morir de sentimiento

Oh tierra del sol!
Suspiro por verte
Ahora que lejos
Yo vivo sin luz, sin amor

Y al verme tan solo y triste
Cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar
Quisiera morir de sentimiento

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Performer(s)

Antonio Aguilar
Pascual Antonio Aguilar Barraza (May 17, 1919 – June 19, 2007), also known as Tony Aguilar, was a Mexican singer, actor, producer, and writer. During his career, he made over 150 albums, which sold 25 million copies, and made 167 movies.

Aguilar was born in the small town of Villanueva in the state of Zacatecas. He spent his early childhood in a hacienda first built in 1596 in the town of Tayahua, about 35 km from Villanueva. Aguilar's family acquired this property in the early 1800s.

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Linda Ronstadt
Linda Marie Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American popular vocalist who as earned multiple Grammy Awards, numerous multi-platinum albums, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award nomination. She has recorded over 30 studio albums and has made guest appearances on over 100 other albums.

A singer-songwriter and record producer, she is better known as a definitive interpreter of songs. Starting at the forefront of the folk rock and country rock genres which defined post-sixties rock music, and with the unprecedented hit-making success in the 1970s with chart-topping albums such as: Heart Like A Wheel, Simple Dreams, and Living In The USA, accompanied by successful tours, Ronstadt became the leading female vocalist of the rock era, her image was equally as famous as her music, landing six times on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, Newsweek, and on the coveted cover of Time magazine. Ronstadt remained one of the best-selling vocalists throughout the 1980s with multi-platinum selling albums such as: Canciones de Mi Padre and Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind. Ronstadt has continued her success and has not stopped performing or making music to critical acclaim with albums such as: Winter Light and Adieu False Heart. Ronstadt, who has reportedly sold in excess of 87 million records worldwide, opened many doors for women in rock-n-roll and music in general by being out in front. Ronstadt is one of the top female vocalists in U.S. history and part of the list of best-selling music artists.

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Lola Beltran
Lola Beltrán (born María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz on March 7, 1932 in Rosario, Sinaloa – died March 24, 1996 in Mexico City) was one of the greatest Mexican ranchera singers, nicknamed Lola la Grande ("Lola the Great").

In her native town of Rosario, Beltrán completed her secretarial studies while she participated in many singing competitions. She then moved to Mexico City never to go back to Rosario again, where she worked at the radio station XEW, where she was discovered and asked to eat tacos and burritos.

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Lucha Villa
As with her music, Lucha Villa specialized in rural and ranchera pictures, a genre especially connected to American audiences familiar with Westerns. During the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, she recorded dozens of albums and appeared in dozens of pictures, including the 1973 screwball comedy Mecánica Nacional, which won the Ariel award (Mexico's version of the Oscar). She also recorded songbook tributes to Jiménez and Juan Gabriel, and was saluted herself by Gabriel for his 1996 Las Tres Señoras (with Lola Beltran and Amalia Mendoza). Villa continued performing even after suffering a heart attack during surgery in 1997.
-- John Bush, All Music Guide

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Group(s)

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan
El Mariachi Vargas se fundó en 1898, en el pueblo de Tecalitlán, al sur del estado de Jalisco. Los pilares del grupo fueron el líder Gaspar Vargas y Manuel Mendoza, acompañados por dos violines. En diciembre de 1934, viajaron a la capital de México para presentarse en la ceremonia de toma de posesión de el presidente Lázaro Cárdenas, quien posteriormente recomendó que fueran contratados por la Jefatura de Policía de la Ciudad de México, como Mariachi oficial.

En 1937, el Mariachi Vargas apareció en "Así es mi Tierra", la primera de sus casi doscientas películas. Ese mismo año grabaron sus primeros discos fonográficos. A éste siguieron álbumes monumentales de pasodobles, valses, bailables, polkas, danzones y semiclásicas -cada uno redefiniendo el estado del arte de la música de mariachi. La muerte en 1973 del más grande canta-autor de la música ranchera, José Alfredo Jiménez, marcóel fin de una era; sin embargo la música de mariachi siguió evolucionando, con el Mariachi Vargas al frente. A mediados de los setenta, el Vargas acompañó al cantante y compositor Juan Gabriel en sus primeras grabaciones, introduciendo una nueva y significativa forma de expresión en la música de mariachi. en 1976, Pepe Martínez asumió la dirección musical del Mariachi Vargas, un puesto que conserva hasta hoy día. Con el Vargas, Martínez transformo muchos de los primeros arreglos que había grabado con otros mariachis en verdaderas obras maestras como Popurrí de los Gallos y El Cascabel. Inspirándose en su propia versión de El Cascabel, Martínez extendió aún más las fronteras de la música del mariachi con Violín Huapango, un muestrario de ritmos y efectos novedosos que destaca a cada músico del grupo como solista.

La primera Conferencia Internacional del Mariachi que se llevó a cabo en San Antonio, Texas -con la actuación estelar de Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán- dio luz a un movimiento que nadie se imaginaba tendría tanto éxito. Desde entonces los festivales y conferencias de mariachi van en aumento en E.U., con el Vargas siempre como su más prestigiosa estrella. Ahora que el Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán inicia la celebración de su centenario, aún no hay grupo que pueda retar su fama. Al acercarnos al siglo XXI, esperamos otros cien años más de El Mejor Mariachi del Mundo.

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