Eighty years of banda recodo, eighty years. Thats not easy to say. How does it feel to be doing it for 80 years . Alfonso [speaking in foreign language] very honored, excited, and a pleasure to stay in this banda with territory, a large territory since 1938. [speaking in foreign language] Oscar Alvarez so many times traveling, making music for our fans, and making music for all the peoples in the five continents because we stay in japan, australia, and morocco, africa. Damian they like banda in japan . Oscar yeah, yeah. In 2002 andworld cup in 2002, we stay in japan and making many performances in, like, five places in japan. And making so many friends because we have communication with friends in japan. And then we traveling to australia and making music for the people in australia. Its so funny because the people stay in the seats, making move, but dont stand up, eh . And we damian try to encourage them. Oscar yeah. And [speaking in foreign language] the people dont want to sit again before [speaking in foreign language] damian talk about what its going to feel like to share the stage with los tigres del norte and paquita la del barrio. Who can answer that one . Alfonso [speaking in foreign language] [speaking in foreign language] [speaking in foreign language] [speaking in foreign language] [speaking in foreign language] damian all right, i dont think that needs any translation because just the power of having three legends on the stage at the same time, its happening at the sap center in san jose on february 17. Paquita la del barrio, banda recodo, tigres del norte all on one stage at the alfonso never happens, huh . Damian no, never happened before. And i told you on the telemundo side, but my dad, the first mexican music i started listening to was banda recodo because he had the album. And look at you guys, now youre not 80 years old. Alfonso yeah, this band recording music from 1951. We have twomore than 200 records. Damian well, its awesome that you guys are here, that you came to join us. And i cant wait to throw some chanclazos over at the sap. Gracias. Male thank you. Damian and up next here on comunidad del valle, [speaking in foreign language] los tigres del norte here in our studio. Stay with us. [singing in foreign language] damian boy, there you are, truly a legend. These are los tigres del norte. [speaking in foreign language] anything you want to add to that, theyve earned it. And we are so honored that they are here in our studio exclusively on comunidad del valle. Welcome to the show, boys. All thank you, thank you, thank you. Damian ive waited 21 and a half years for this, to have you. What took you guys so long to be here . Jorge hernandez well, thank you, thank you for having us here. We are very proud to be here in this area. And were going to be performing here in sap arena next february 17. Damian whats it like to come home and sing in front of your home crowd here in san jose . Jorge oh, we love it. We are kind of nervous, though, because we havent been for the last three and a half years. We havent been here in the city, so kind of nervous, so i hope everything goes well. Damian all right, let me get serious on the topic if i can, don hernan. You and i were watchingyou and i were watching the news earlier on nbc bay area, and you saw a lot of the immigration issues. How angry does it make you . Because youre kind of considered a social activist. How angry does it make you when you see the attacks on immigrants . Hernan hernandez seeing all these things that are happening right now, you know, it makes me upset, it makes me the frustration, you know, it gets bigger every day. Because when you see the way things are getting for the dreamers especially, all those generation, those young kids that they came here with their parents without being their own decision. You know, it was the parents, the parents decision. And now, the way the person is doing these things and the way hes using, his way of thinking or his way of saying that things or what hes going to do, it makes me so upset and makes methe frustration not only in the Mexican Community or latino community, i think most of the nationalities that live in the united states, you know, we are confused and were allwe dont know whats going to happen. You know, i hope, you know, that we canlike us, you know that we live here for so many years and we have our kids here already. So, i think we should make this kind of union, you know, to make it a strength, you know. And maybe parties and people, they really have that pulling of how to get together. You know, to us, and the good way, the pacifist way to do something for the dreamers, you know, there are. Can you imagine if the dreamers go back to their own countries and theyve been here all their lives . You know, itsthats tough. I mean, thats a decision that i hope the president change his heart. I mean damian his heart, right. Hernan touch his heart. Damian do you see a corrido about President Trump in the future by los tigres del norte . Jorge probably. Damian probably, right . Jorge probably, we have to do it in a good way for so many reasons. Damian how tough is it, maybe one of you guys can answer, to take a stand . To say that los tigres del norte are going to stand up for immigrants . I mean, its probably easy for you guys, but you know that you might be criticized by some other people, but the immigrants are going to be cheering you. How tough of a balance is that . Eduardo hernandez well, youre right, we can be criticized, but you know, we have to do it. Its something that we have to stand up for and, you know, fight for our community, fight for our people, fight for our not only, like hernan said, mexicans, but the whole latino people. We have to fight for them. We have to raise our voice to do something about it, you know . Damian all right, i have another question for you, luis, in our next segment. But los tigres del norte again will be performing on stage with banda recodo and paquita la del barrio. Thats in one week there at the sap center in san jose. Theres a date and all the information. Well be back with los tigres del norte, stay with us. Introducing the pork from jack in the box. Two strips of pork belly, green leaf lettuce, juicy tomatoes and tangy honey aioli even youll love it, martha security get him wow, do you guys workout . Try my new pork belly blt, part of my food truck series. cncoc introducing the prime rib from jack in the box. With strips of prime rib grilled with peppers and onions and smothered in provolone cheese and im challenging you to try it, martha its on, jack. Why are we whispering . Try my new prime rib cheesesteak, part of my food truck series. [singing in foreign language] damian look at that crowd, Estadio Azteca, and this is where los tigres del norte just have been taking off for so long. Luis, what was that like . Its one of the biggest stadiums in the world, and there you are right in the center of it. Luis hernandez well, our responsibility to be performing in front of more than 100,000 people. And you know, having them sing your songs, having them ask for your songs because it could beit could seem like its easy to stand there, but when youre in front of this crowd that its verythat knows your music, that its very traditional, its kind of scary at the same time. But you know, i think we did well. We performed in front of all these people. And after we decided to make a cd and toand a dvd so people in their house, people that couldnt attend could have this dvd or cd with all the hits of los tigres del norte, theyre the hits, theyre the people thatthose are the ones that People Choose from all of our songs that we have over 50 years. Damian i took a flight to mexico city to cover the earthquake. On the way back, i heard this album on the flight back, and it justit made things a lot better because youre coming back depressed from seeing that. So, thank you all for doing that. Luis thank you. Damian i asked you this last time, jorge, but do you sometimes sing your songs because of the topic with coraje . Do you sing it with anger because youre talking about themaybe the injustices that youve seen . Jorge yeah, i just get the story and whats happening in the community. And sometimes when you perform a song, you really feel it. You have the sentiment. And that, we try to transmit it to the people. But also its because thats the way we are. We justwere not acting or anything like that. Its something it comes to your mind, it comessome songs, they make you feel like you have toyou have to do it that way so that people can relate it to you, but also believe what we say, and believe the story of what were singing about. We always sing songs about our community, what happens with our people. So, thats why we are very direct in what we sing. Damian and you dont talk a lot about your charity work, but you all do a lot of charity work. Youre as american as you are mexican. You perform for the troops. Tell us why you decided to go overseas and perform for our Service Members across . Hernan those country that we visit, you know, to go sing for the troops, i think it was the most beautiful experiences. But at the same time, to give them the music, the happiness. So many latinos in the army. It was like being there singing for them, like, in this big ship. You know, like over 5,000 latinos right there, soldiers. You know, its like it was my most beautiful experience. But at the same time, its like make you proud, you know, that you see all these latinos in there defending the country. Thats why, when you get to see that and then you come back to youback home and you see all these things that are happening here, and you relate the problems with them being over there, i mean, its like sayinglike if its not equal, you know, like if its not fair. There are all these latinos that we saw over there. And i went to korea, to germany, to italy, to japan. And taking our music, give them that happiness, how they miss their families, how they miss, i mean, everything. You know, and then at the same time, theyre there, maybe they dont want to come back. Or the ones that come back, you know, they come back with theseyeah, you know, its so important for us, you know, that we can do that. You know, i wish i can go back and do it again, you know, because its not that you go there to get publicity, you know. Its not that, you know. Its you go there because you want to give them what they need because theyre in danger. You know, they dont know theyre going to come back. And i think a lot of our songs, we have songs, you know, like los hijos de hernandez, you know, that is a song that it talks about these hernandez last name person that want to fight for united states. And when he comes back here and he go backand he goes to mexico to visit the family, he had problems to cross even though he went over there and fought for the country. You know, all these things relate a lot. A lot of people, you know, it happens to a lot of people, you know. Its not long ago we went to play in tijuana, and we saw a lot ofa lot of people that went and fought for united states, and for some reason they went to mexico, and they went back, they didnt let them pass. You know, i think it was like anot like a treaty, but it was something that the government used to offer in those days. You know, youll fight and they damian you get your citizenship. Hernan yeah, so, so those kind of things are the ones los tigres del norte, we seen those kind of things because its real. I mean, it happens. Damian yeah, well, awesome, the topics are awesome. Los tigres del norte, again, will be on stage singing all their cumbias and corridos there at sap with paquita and banda recodo. Well wrap it up and listen to one song in its entirety, stay with us. So we know how to cover almost weve anything. St everything even a redhot mascot. [mascot] heyoooo whoop, whoop [crowd 1] hey, youre on fire [mascot] you bet i am [crowd 2] dude, youre on fire [mascot] oh, yeah [crowd 3] no, youre on fire look behind you. [mascot] im cool. Im cool. [burke] thats one way to fire up the crowd. But we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] damian thats so awesome, los tigres del norte there at Estadio Azteca live in concert. Don eduardo, does this song you know, a lot of these songs kind of give you chills. They make you really excited that youre listening and maybe dancing to these songs. But when you see the people getting into it there at azteca, they werent really dancing, they were enjoying it. Does thati mean, does that give you a little more power to say theyre listening to the words, theyre watching you play . Eduardo oh yeah, yeah, it gives you more likeyou get more happy, you get more involvement with the people because theyre not dancing, theyre just watching you, theyre looking at you. You can see their expression. You can see them like really close, and it gives you like chills. Yeah, yeah, its very nice. Its likeits like, you know, like hear the song when we play on february 17, its going to be, you know, like close towere going to be close to the people too. And it feels good. It feelsit feels like you want to get down and sing for them right there in the chair. Damian its a business, don luis, because the night before, you probably have to go to bed early. That day, its business. Youre there to perform. People, maybe its the first time seeing you. Luis yeah, you need to be prepared. Its a very big responsibility, and people goes there to enjoy it. You know, not only to listen to the song, but also to see what you do and how you stand on the stage, what do you want to project. Its very important to be prepared and to be relaxed at the same time. You know, its a mixture of a lot of the stories. You know, one moment you are very happy. At another moment, youre sad, makes you cry. Weve seen people cry when we sing certain songs, certain stories. And its very emotional. You know, its a very emotional. Our concerts are normally very emotional because of the stories that we sing. We try to sing ofnot sing the same stories at the same time. We make a mixture of those feelings, and we make people to change their mood, you know, during the concert. Itslos tigres del norte, weve been doing that for a long time. And you know, here at the sap, the difference too is that this show, its for the whole family. Kids can go, the parents, everyone can go. Its not a dance where youre going to be standing. People can be sitting down, listening to the song, enjoying what we do on the stage. Damian yeah, and don jorge, lastly, when an immigrant comes to this country by themselves, theyre alone, they might be depressed, they left their family back home. They turn on the radio and they listen to the los tigres del norte, and they feel like theyre home. Thats got to make you really proud to know. Jorge thats the most wonderful things that can happen to us, when the people areyou go to the restaurant or in the streets, sometimes we talk about it, and they tell us what they feel, what the songs means to them. They means the memories, the way they came to this country, the way they behave in this country, the way theyre progressing. Some of them, the way they fell, the way they dont have the opportunity. And the songs, its all about all that. And when we are in person singing for them, its another story. Its like reminding them their lives their lives here and the people thats behind them in mexico and Different Countries they left. And they came here to this country to progress, to do the best they can so they can support who is staying in a differentin mexico and the Different Countries where the families belong in that moment. And thats one of those sentiments very, very strong feelings for me. And when we see these people in front of us, and you singing these stories, its like they giving you so much power in your body, you want to open more to them and make to help in any way that you can. Damian god has blessed us by having you all come into all of our lives. Thank you all so much. All thank you, thank you. Jorge before we leave . Damian oh yes, theres the information for los tigres del norte. And oh, look at this. Jorge look, this is for you. Damian oh wow, this is jorge in english or in espanol. Damian gracias, muchas gracias. Jorge damian, this is for you. Damian gracias very much, i reallythis is so awesome. Thank you very much. Los tigres del norte again at the sap this coming saturday. Thank you guys so much for all that you do. All thank you, thank you. Damian muchas gracias. All right, gracias, this is awesome. Wow, i wont make fun of you anymore, dwayne. Robert handa hello, and welcome to Asian Pacific america. Im robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv. And happy new year as we get ready to celebrate the lunar new year, including many Chinese New Year events. But this week, we also saw the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics from south korea. Nbc bay area is proud to be bringing it to you, and we start our show profiling two bay area olympians. We hear from one of the leading medal contenders, karen chen, the us womens figure skating champion, who hails from fremont, and will talk to us about growing up in the bay area and how her culture helps contribute to her success. Then we will talk with vincent zhou of palo alto, a junior mens World Champion skater who also has some very interesting