Stream the grammywinning bands forthcoming live album. With a captivating voice that sings about love, loss, and everyday struggles, the band has become the voice of a new bicultural generation in the united. The socal mexican rootsrock and soul band drops by to chat about its new, selftitled album. The groups new, selftitled album is their first allenglish record.
Listenersupported wnyc is the home for independent journalism and courageous conversation on air and online. Marisol hernandez, the vocalist, and percussionist oso ramirez. They are a musical phenomenon that has won a grammy, toured from coast to coast, collaborated with elvis costello, appeared on conan, and most recently shared the stage with led zeppelins john paul jones. The band seeks to represent a us bicultural identity, both immersed in modern music but still close to their latin american influences and mexican heritage. The group has come a long way since their busking days on l. They play a blend of many forms of music, including cumbia, bossa nova, and boleros. We meet the band members, including accordion player pepe carlos, whos undocumented. They do it one dance step at a time, with cumbias, corridos. The bands sound and story remind us of the tired, but accurate cliche of our society being a melting pot of cultures, languages, foods, histories and musics. The children of immigrants, their acclaimed 20 debut album, 20s treinta dias, offered an uptempo. Our band member, pepe carlos, was undocumented for 27.
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