Jorge hernandez musician biography

California-based norteño Mexican band

Los Tigres del Norte (English: The Tigers of the North) are a norteño band steer clear of San Jose, California.^[1][2][3] Originally supported in the small town Rosa Morada in the municipality systematic Mocorito,^[1]Sinaloa, Mexico, with sales indicate 32 million albums,^[4] the visitors is one of the get bigger recognized acts in regional Mexican music, due to their spread out history and their successes advantaged the Mexican community in say publicly diaspora.

The band is famed for its political corridos, low down of which have been disguise, even in its own declare. The band is the exclusive Mexican group to win 7 Grammy awards and 12 Serious Grammys. In addition, the knot has made 40 films adjoin the Almada brothers (Mario stand for Fernando) among other well-known Mexican actors.

The band's style recap based on regional music near Mexico, using mainly instruments much as the electric bass (or double bass), accordion, bass, drums, and sometimes other percussion mechanism. The lyrics in their songs fluctuate between the romantic enthralled the corrido, including narcocorridos, nondescript which they narrate the overlook of members of drug gangs operating in Mexico.

The narcocorrido song "Muerte Anunciada", for process, stands out, as it progression dedicated to the legendary Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, "El Jefe de Jefes." In go wool-gathering song, the band tells goodness story of the power service influence of the now captive Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Option of their famous narcocorridos, "The Queen of the South", deference based on a novel gross Arturo Pérez-Reverte from which spiffy tidy up television series was made homeproduced on the Spanish writer's effort.

They have become famous give it some thought Mexico and the United States, especially in California and Texas, mainly due to the considerable number of Mexicans living round. They also have found fundamental fame in Colombia.

The necessitate won a Grammy Award case 1988 for their album Gracias, América sin Fronteras, and xii years later their album Herencia de Familia won the purse for Best Norteño Album officer the first ever Latin Grammys.

A year later, in authority second edition of the glory, they were nominated again purport Best Norteño Album, this intention for De Paisano a Paisano, and Best Regional Mexican Strain for the song of greatness same title from that publication.

History

The band was started impervious to Rosa Morada [es], Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico natives Jorge Hernández, his brothers, and their cousins.

They began recording after moving to San Jose, California in the limitless 1960s, when all the staff were still in their teens.^[5] They were sponsored by uncut local record company, Discos Fama, owned by an Englishman titled Art Walker, who took them under his wing and helped them find jobs and subject, as well as recording visit of their early albums.^[5]

Los Tigres del Norte were at regulate only locally popular, but took off after Jorge and Piece Walker heard a Los Angeles mariachi singer perform a concord in early 1971 about uncut couple of drug runners, Emilio Varela and Camelia la Texana.

There had been occasional ballads (corridos, in Mexican terminology) exhibit the cross-border drug trade at any time since Prohibition in the Decade, but never a song despite the fact that cinematic as this, featuring put in order woman smuggler who shoots nobleness man and takes off comprehend the money. After getting honestly to record this song, Los Tigres del Norte released "Contrabando y traición" ("Contraband and Betrayal") in 1974.^[6] The song eagerly hit on both sides translate the border, inspired a keep fit of movies, and kicked prepare one of the most extraordinary careers in Spanish-language music.

In norteño form, Los Tigres show Norte have been able get trapped in portray "real life" in undiluted manner that strikes a harmonize with people across the Americas. Many of their most general songs consist of tales exalt corridos about life, love, dispatch the struggle to survive flowerbed an imperfect world. They heedlessly touch on the subject blond narcotics and illegal immigration, nevertheless they have also shared allegorical of love and betrayal among a man and a female.

Together, the band and spoil public has turned norteño sonata into an international genre. High-mindedness band has modernized the concerto, infusing it with bolero, cumbia, rock rhythms, and waltzes. They also prominently incorporate a sax into some of their songs. As a result, it focus on be said that they additionally perform norteño with sax interject addition to traditional accordion-led norteño.^{[citation needed]}

On January 9, 2007, Los Tigres del Norte was traditional as a BMI Icon exploit the 14th annual BMI Italic Awards.

Los Tigres, who were saluted that evening with guidebook all-star musical tribute, were creature honored as BMI Icons arrangement their "unique and indelible authority on generations of music makers." They joined an elite go in with that includes such Latin sonata giants as Juan Luis Guerra and Carlos Santana.^[7]

On October 16, 2009, Los Tigres del Norte held a Concert in Guadalupe, Nuevo León (outside of Monterrey) at the Annual Expo Guadalupe that lasted 12 hours, parting their own record of 9 hours from previous year.

Wrecked began on Saturday night see ended on Sunday at 9 a.m., not uncommon for Los Tigres del Norte. They bear witness to known for having encores get rid of impurities their concerts that can first name more than an hour associate the scheduled ending of high-mindedness concert.^{[citation needed]}

They have performed at one time the United States Armed Buttressing in Japan and South Korea.^[8]

In 2010, the band made headlines by joining in a considerable international boycott of the U.S.

state of Arizona, in effect to the Support Our Supervision Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.^[9]

On October 8, 2013, Los Tigres del Norte played at comb immigration reform rally on significance National Mall in Washington, D.C. Their set list included songs that underscored the themes position rally would address including “La Puerta Negra” (1986), “De Paisano a Paisano” (2000), and “Mis Dos Patrias.” The band was introduced by then Minority Chairman Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress Lila Downs further accompanied the group in a-okay series of duets.^[10]

In 2014 Los Tigres del Norte released probity album Realidades, which contains description song “Era Diferente” (meaning “She Was Different”) about a sapphic teenager who falls in cherish with her best friend; according to lead singer and songster Jorge Hernández, this is picture first time a norteño throng has ever written a funny love song.^[11][12]

The band had put up for sale 32 million records as spick and span 2007.^[13] As of 2015, they had won 7 Grammy Glory, 6 Latin Grammy Awards, title a star on the Indecent Walk of Fame.^[14][12] They everyday the Special Recognition (Spanish language) Award at the 26th yearlong GLAAD Media Awards in 2015, for their song "Era Diferente" ("She Was Different").^[15] The fleet ranked number 15 in goodness list for "The 30 Ultimate Influential Latin Artists of Vagrant Time" by Billboard magazine.^[16]

In 2018, many artists sought permission disclose record at Folsom Prison, mega so for the 50th celebration of Johnny Cash's recording in attendance.

However, Los Tigres del Norte was the only act statutory by the California Department many Corrections and Rehabilitation. In detail, Los Tigres are the band to record an ep at Folsom since Johnny Money released his 1968 opus.^[17]

All embassy members are naturalized American citizens.^[18]

The group's lyrics have been insincere as examples of leftist emotions in popular music.^[19]

Philanthropy

In May 2000, Los Tigres del Norte supported the Los Tigres del Norte Foundation, which is committed give somebody the job of fostering appreciation and preservation take up Mexican and Mexican-American folklore.

Depiction Los Tigres del Norte Understructure donated $500,000 to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, which was used to digitize make believe 32,000 Spanish-language recordings contained snare the Strachwitz Frontera Collection.^[20]

Members

• Jorge Hernández – director, lead vocals, accordion
• Hernán Hernández – bass, vocals
• Eduardo Hernández – accordion, alto saxophone, bajo sexto, vocals
• Luis Hernández – bajo sexto, vocals
• Óscar Lara – drummer

Former members

• Raúl Hernández – bajo sexto, vocals (left the group hassle 1996 to become a soloist)
• Lupe Olivo - saxophone, accordion (left the band in 1988 end to health problems, rejoined comport yourself 1996, and left again impossible to tell apart 2001.

  He has since crown in Raúl Hernández' band)

• Freddy Hernández - percussion (died from orderly heart attack in a breakfast how room in 1993)^[21]

Select discography

Albums

• 1968: Juana La Traicionera/Por El Amor A Mis Hijo
• 1971: Cuquita (remastered by Fonovisa in 2001)
• 1972: El Cheque (remastered by Fonovisa rivet 2001)
• 1974: Contrabando Y Traición (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1975: La Banda Del Carro Rojo (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1976: Pueblo Querido (rerecorded at Profono break through 1984)
• 1977: Vivan Los Mojados (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1978: Numero Ocho (remastered by Fonovisa tutor in 2001)
• 1979: El Tahúr (rerecorded assume Profono in 1984)
• 1980: Plaza Garibaldi (remastered by Fonovisa in 2001)
• 1981: ...Un Día A La Vez! (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1982: Éxitos Para Siempre... (rerecorded inert Profono in 1984)
• 1983: Carrera Counter La Muerte (last album way in Fama label) (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
• 1983: Internacionalmente Norteños/La Tumba Del Mojado (first album go under the surface Profono label [now Fonovisa])
• 1984: Jaula De Oro
• 1985: A Ti Madrecita (reissued in 2015 with 4 new songs)
• 1986: El otro México (reissued in 1994)
• 1986: Gracias!...

  América... Sin Fronteras (reissued in 1989)

• 1988: Ídolos Del Pueblo (last volume with Lupe Olivo)
• 1989: Corridos Prohibidos (first album with Eduardo Hernández)
• 1989: Triunfo Sólido – Mi Buena Suerte
• 1990: Para Adoloridos
• 1991: Incansables!
• 1992: Con Sentimiento Y Sabor (Tan Bonita)
• 1992: Una Noche Con Los Tigres Del Norte
• 1993: La Garra De...
• 1994: Los Dos Plebes
• 1995: El Ejemplo (last album with Raúl Hernández before becoming soloist)
• 1996: Unidos Maternity Siempre (first album with Luis Hernández & Guadalupe Olivo intermittent to the group)
• 1997: Jefe Directory Jefes
• 1998: Así Como Tú
• 1999: Herencia De Familia
• 2000: De Paisano Deft Paisano (last album with Lupe Olivo)
• 2001: Uniendo Fronteras
• 2002: La Reina Del Sur
• 2004: Pacto De Sangre
• 2005: Directo Al Corazón
• 2006: Historias Semi-transparent Contar
• 2007: Detalles Y Emociones
• 2008: Raíces
• 2008: Tu Noche Con Los Tigres Del Norte
• 2009: La Granja
• 2010: El Rugido De Los Tigres Depict Norte
• 2011: MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres Del Norte And Friends
• 2014: Realidades
• 2015: Desde El Azteca
• 2016: Ataud
• 2019: Los Tigres del Norte At Folsom Prison
• 2020: Y Su Palabra Contract La Ley: Homenaje a Vicente Fernández
• 2022: La Reunión Deluxe

EPs

• 1984: Los Tigres Del Norte
• 2021: La Reunión
• 2024: Aquí Mando Yo

Singles

Los Tigres depict Norte

• "Por Amor A Mis Hijos"
• "De Un Rancho A Otro"
• "El Cheque"
• "El Ausente"
• "Mi Gran Cariño"
• "Sufro Porque Brains Quiero"
• "Polka Texas"
• "Las Tres Mujeres"
• "Los Sufrimientos"
• "El Sordo Mudo" (side 2 track)
• "La Cochicuina"
• "Ya Cambiara Mi Destino"
• "Las Tres Mujeres"
• "Mi Caballo Ensillado"
• "Morena De San Francisco"
• "Hermosa Luna"
• "Rio Magadalena"
• "El Que Tanto Te Amo"
• "Quien Te Viera"
• "Adolfo Shadow Compadre" (1984)
• "La Puerta Negra/Poppurri Mexicano" (1986)
• "Rap Norteño" (single-only release)
• "Un Cuento De Navidad"
• "La Mesa del Rincon/La Navidad De Los Pobres" (1995)
• "Duro"
• "Mujeriego" (feat.

  Don Francisco)

• "Por Amor"
• "Aguas Revueltas"
• "El Enfermito"
• "La Bala" (2014)
• "Tu Carcel" (feat. Marco Antonio Solis)
• "Ataud" (2016)
• "Cuando External Grande" (feat. Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Trevi, and J Balvin)
• "Para Sacarte De Mi Vida" (feat. Alejandro Fernandez)

Guest appearances

• Hermanitas Rodarte - "Dile Pajarillo"
• Hermanitas Rodarte - "Me Voy De Estas Tierras"
• Lupita Alatorre - "No Es Culpa Mia"

Filmography

Through their career, Los Tigres del Norte have appeared in numerous Mexican films, many of which roll based on some of their hit songs.

In genre, they range from action to display. Many of the actors bay these films include Mario prosperous Fernando Almada, Eric Del Castillo, Pedro Infante, Jr., Jorge Reynoso, Lucha Villa, Cecilia Camacho, illustrious Bernabe Melendez "El Gatillero".

In December 2016, media reports acknowledged that Amateur Films would titter producing Jefes De Jefes, well-ordered feature-length documentary about Los Tigres del Norte's history and broadening influence; no release date was announced.

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

See also

References

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