Growing up my mom would always have Salsa music on, in the car and around the house. One of her favorite singers was Hector Lavoe. His smooth tones would fill our house.Hector Lavoe was known as one of the best Latin singers and songwriters. His passion for music started the salsa boom in the 70's. He had a remarkable journey and endless achievements. Hector Lavoe music was unique. It was a mix of traditional Puerto Rican music and jazz. His addiction to drugs led to his tragic death in the 1990's.
Hector Juan Perez Martinez was born in Ponce Puerto Rico in 1946. (Rodriguez) By the time he was 4 he had already experienced his first tragedy, his mother died.His family had a big musical history. Hectors grandfather was known for his beautiful
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Their shows were known as showstoppers. Because of all the success they were able to have comfortable lives and Hector Lavoe became known as a "Ladies Man". Hector met Carmen Castro and in 1968 they had a baby boy together. But little did Carman know she wasn’t the only girlfriend. Hector also had a baby a year later with a woman named Nilda Roman. Because of his relationship with Nilda Hector never married Carmen and never had a relationship with his oldest son. He ended marrying Nilda, which might not have been the right thing to do. Nilda was known for selling drugs. Some people say she is the reason Hector became addicted to drugs and others say it was the fame and success. Whichever it was his wife or the success, his addiction became so bad that it took over his life. Hector began to miss band practice and events. His lateness ended up becoming a joke and in 1999 Pacheco wrote a song about it.
By 1974 the drug use was so bad that it broke up the relationship between Colon and Levoe.The drug use and the breakup of the band put Hector Levoe into severe depression, and he attempted suicide multiple times. He got clean and seemed to be on the right path, but in that same year he experienced 3 tragedies. Hector lost his mother in law; father and his 17-year-old son was accidentally shot by a friend. Drugs had taken over his life again. This is a pattern that would continue for Hector. He would get clean and then moths later the
Miguel Cabrera, also known as “Miggy”, was born in Maracay, Venezuela, on April 18, 1983. His real name is José Miguel Cabrera Torres. Miguel was raised by his parents, Miguel Sr. and Gregoria. As a young child, Miguel first started playing baseball with his neighbors. Baseball is one of the most popular sports in Venezuela.
Selena Quintanilla Perez was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena grew up understanding Spanish, but English was her first language. At the age of five Selena saw her brother learning to play the guitar and became jealous of the attention he was getting. She picked up a songbook and began to sing. Her family quickly turned their attention to her strong and beautiful voice. In the first grade Selena excelled at a game called Jump the Brook, in which two ropes are placed side by side and each kid takes a turn jumping across.1 In middle school Selena was in honors classes and made A’s and B’s. Selena used her allowance to put clothes on layaway. As a teenager, Selena hung all of her awards on the wall next to the staircase in her family’s house. As an adult, Selena was very involved with kids. She was a spokeswoman for the D.A.R.E. Program.
In order to determine why Rodriguez joined a gang so early in his life, we have to scrutinize his childhood up to that point. In Always Running Rodriguez provides us with a very thorough description of his childhood from the time on at which children move into a wider social context an thus learn how to treat people outside their family and build up relationships with those.
Reymundo was born in Puerto Rico in 1963 in the back of a 1957 Chevy. His mother was married at age sixteen to a man that was seventy-four years of age. Reymundo’s father died when he was almost five years old, therefore he does not have much memory of the relationship that they had. Reymundo has 2 sisters with whom he did not have a relationship with, one sister would always watch out for him, but that was about it. After the death of Reymundo’s father, his mother remarried a guy named Emilio with which she had a daughter for. After Emilio, Pedro came in to the picture with his son Hector. Pedro was an illegal lottery dealer and Hector sold heroin.
Hector Sanchez is a 58-year-old Mexican man and has been married to Celia Sanchez for close to forty years. Together Hector and Celia have six children and one grandchild. Hector is the head of the Sanchez family and the main financial source of the family. When Hector first arrived to the
At the end, Rosario realized that been separated from his son is not worth it. She worked very hurt to give carlitos what she considered was good for him but the situation made Carlitos to decide to cross the border to look for her. She knows that Carlitos was very intelligent but he did not have a phisical address to look for her, she did not knew anything about him so she decided to go back to Mexico to look for him. But in the process to do it, she found Carlitos in the same place she used to call him every Sunday.
In the beginning, Cesar Chavez started having a hard life ever since he was young. He was born on March 31, 1927 in San Luis Arizona, near Yuma. He had two brothers and two sisters. He started working at a young age after his family lost their ranch on an economic crisis. As a consequence, they moved and started living in a barrio, which was a poor area of town in San Jose, California and they started living as immigrants. Later, he left school in order to start working with his family in fields and, in a way, start supporting his family. They used to move from farm to farm in look for more fields to harvest, so they could get more money. When he was seventeen he enlisted into the United States Navy and served for two years. At his return, in 1948, he married the love of his life, Helen Fabela, and eventually years later they had eight children together.
Another reason why narco corridos are an influence to society is their disrespect towards women, since the genre of music is about glorifying drugs and illegal money, artists tend to sing about luxuries cars parties and they also make women seem like an object that can be bought by their illegal activities. In narco corrido videos there is always more than one women half naked dancing around a man that thinks he deserves it all. It has always been around that women back then would do whatever their husband would tell them to do even if men would go around with other women, well narco corridos try to bring the message back of men having more than one women and just showing off the money they have living a criminal life. This attitude going on
Vinnie- Is Carmen's "old man" who protects her and becomes her pimp. He is very much into drugs like Carmen.
Throughout the years Latin music has slowly made an impact in the music industry in the United States, from the traditional mariachi to the vibrant Rock en Español. But it is the controversial folk-music genre called narcocorridos that has made a major impact in the last few years in the United States, mainly the southwestern states that border with Mexico. Also called drug ballads, this subgenre of the traditional corrido has emerged since the 1990’s as the principal instrument to chronicle the odyssey of Mexicans across the Rio Grande in a drug-infested universe (Stavans). Played by the tuba, an accordion, drums and a guitar, narcocorridos are about violent confrontations between cartels and the luxury lives of powerful drug lords. With the violent drug wars in the last ten years in Mexico, narcocorridos have been the music trend to many, mainly the young generation. People get influence by this music and want to live the expensive and exotic life these drug lords live by. In this research paper I am going to explain how the emergence of narcocorridos has influenced the young generation and societies in the United States and Mexico.
Often referred to as the gangster rap of Mexico, Narcocorridos are centered on the drug cartels of Mexico and are frequently used as an outlet for boasting and violence. Emerging in the 1980s and 1990s, the narcocorrido has become a hugely popular style of Mexican music. Although controversial in Mexico, Narcocorrido has gained popularity throughout the US, especially in California. The violence portrayed through this music is often embraced by many Hispanics in the US as a part of the gangster lifestyle. Narcocorridos, although a modern form of popular corridos, developed due to the historical and cultural significance of drugs throughout Mexico. The prevalence of these drugs stoked popular fascination with the varying experiences of narcos and their exploits. There is a drastic difference in the way the narcocorrido is perceived on either side of the US-Mexico border. The American perception stereotypes narcocorridos as entertaining, while across the Mexican border the contents are taken more seriously and are a reflection of real-life events and serious problems throughout Mexico. The contents of narcocorridos are damaging and destructive to its audience; however, due to popular interest, narcocorridos maintains a varying perception in Mexico and America.
El Cordobés, also known as Manuel Benítez Pérez, is a Spanish bullfighter known for the quality of his strategy that was balanced by his outstanding reflexes, fearlessness, and crowd appeal.
Diego Maldonado, a member of the famous Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez’s exploration team, made contact with an Aztec priest known as Ehecatl during the course of Cortez’s Spanish Conquest. This conquest was funded by the Spanish Governor of Cuba, Diego Velazquez, who had sent previous failed missions to the Yucatan (Palfrey). The two met after a very important Aztec religious celebration, during which human sacrifice occurred.
Narcocorridos (Regional Mexican Music that tells a story related to the drug business) are not only songs: they are a reflection of a violent and excessive reality lived in various parts of Mexico under the War on Drugs. Corridos (Regional Mexican Music that narrates a story) originated during the Mexican Revolution as a way to spread information and stories--Narcocorridos have retained the efforts of rebellion against the government however, the idea of “rebellion” is based on celebrated violent cartel practices. The desperate economic situation, government corruption, and inefficient educational system has lead to the expansion and acceptance of drug cartels among low-income communities who often receive protection and goods from the cartels.
...tually fell apart and in 2004 she was released from prison and sent back to Colombia . Blanco’s family says that after she was released from prison she converted to christianity and left the drug game, becoming a family woman.