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Jalisco No Te Rajes

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¡Ay, Jalisco, Jalisco, Jalisco!
Tú tienes tu novia que es Guadalajara
Muchacha bonita, la perla más rara
De todo Jalisco es mi Guadalajara

Y me gusta escuchar los mariachis
Cantar con el alma sus lindas canciones
Oír cómo suenan esos guitarrones
Y echarme un tequila con los valentones

CORO
¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes!
Me sale del alma gritar con calor
Abrir todo el pecho pa' echar este grito:
¡Que lindo es Jalisco, palabra de honor!

Pa' mujeres, Jalisco es primero
Lo mismo en Los Altos, que allá en la Cañada
Mujeres muy lindas rechulas de cara
Así son las hembras de Guadalajara

En Jalisco se quiere a la buena
Porque es peligroso querer a la mala
Por una morena echar mucha bala
Y bajo la luna cantar en Chapala

(REPITE CORO)

¡Ay Jalisco, Jalisco, Jalisco!
Tus hombres son machos y son cumplidores
Valientes, ariscos y sostenedores
No admiten rivales en cosa de amores

Su orgullo es su traje de charro
Traer su pistola, pasear en el pinto
Y con su guitarra echar mucho tipo
Y a los que presumen quitarles el hipo

(REPITE CORO)

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Jorge Negrete
Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno (November 30, 1911 – December 5, 1953) is considered one of the most popular Mexican singers and actors of all time.

Negrete was born in Guanajuato where he was raised together with his brother and three sisters: David, Consuelo, Emilia and Teresa, and also lived in San Luis Potosí. He graduated with the rank of sub-lieutenant from El Colegio Militar, Mexico's military academy.

Handsome, with a very strong will and a trained, fascinating voice, he is still a top idol in Mexico and Latin America, more than 50 years after his death. His recording of México Lindo y Querido (Beautiful and Beloved México), his country's unofficial anthem, is the best known recording of the song. His career is often compared to that of Pedro Infante, the best known and most popular Mexican actor of the time. The public rivalry didn't carry over to their private lives, as they were close friends until Negrete's death.

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Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born September 23, 1943 in Madrid) is the best-selling Spanish singer of all time, having sold over 250 million records in different languages and released 77 records. While Iglesias rose to international prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as a performer of romantic ballads and as an iconically suave Latin gentleman, his success has continued as he crossed musical and linguistic barriers. Thus far, he has performed approximately 5,000 concerts and recorded albums in fourteen different languages.

If not for a car accident, on 22nd September 1963, he may have never had a music career: "I had a car accident, very, very strange car accident," remembers Iglesias. I lost control of the car and rolled it, resulting in what they call paraparexia, which is not a paraplegic. It's a compression in the cord, in the sense of the neck … my spinal cord, and I was very, very ill for three years." Doctors thought the young man would never walk again. But slowly, he started to recover. And to increase dexterity in his hands, he began to play the guitar. Once he recovered, he resumed his studies and he travelled to England to study English, first in Ramsgate and then at Bell Educational Trust's Language School in Cambridge.

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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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Vicente Fernandez
Vicente Fernández (born Vicente Fernández Gómez on February 17, 1940) is a Mexican ranchera singer. He is the father of Alejandro Fernández, also a popular Mexican artist. Fernández's life could be described as a rags-to-riches story—having come from humble beginnings, he eventually established himself as a famous musician.

In his native Mexico, Vicente Fernández is hailed as the "king of the rancheras." He was born and raised in Huentitán el Alto, Jalisco, Mexico on February 17, 1940 to a poor family and had to work in his childhood to maintain himself. Fernandez worked as a shoeshine boy, a waiter and dishwasher. Later, he served as cashier and manager of his uncle's restaurant. During his youth he sung at a festival in Arandas, Jalisco. He was booed off the stage by the audience and vowed never to sing to the city again."

Vicente got his start when he won a Guadalajara singing contest. At age 21 he was in the show "La Calandria Musical" where he received his first payment for singing. He earned 35 pesos. He and his ranchera music have become most popular in Latin America and in Spain.

At 21, Fernandez decided to make his living by singing. Initially, he sang for tips at the Amanecer Tapatio, serenaded drivers who sat waiting to move in traffic, and continued with "La Calandria Musical." From there he went on to sing with some of Mexico's best-known mariachi groups, such as Amanecer de Pepe Mendoza and the Mariachi of Jose Luis Aguilar. It was through these groups that he met Felipe Arriaga.

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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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