Growing up in the United States, a country that likes to tell itself stories about it being the center of the world, I cannot say that I grew up listening to Mexican regional music. Part of this is purely circumstantial and cultural; my own background is Jewish, so, when they weren’t spinning Tom Petty and Carole King CDs, my parents filled our home with klezmer CDs and songs performed in Hebrew. My best shot at hearing popular regional Mexican music would’ve been through Selena Quintanilla. I was still a little young for Selena, being about eight when she was tragically killed. Otherwise, I might have heard a little Joan Baez — but that would be it.
Five years ago, no one knew him. He posted a video on Facebook and everything changed. Christian Nodal came from the Sonoran desert and became the representative of Mexican regional music, a genre that is conquering audiences in the US, Latin America and Spain
In the year since Grupo Frontera’s inception, the McAllen, Texas, players have made enormous strides not just for themselves but for the regional Mexican genre.
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