Alfredo rios el komander biography of william
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As you listen to this Youtube playlist, imagine a Regional Mexican station that plays not just regional styles, but disco-fied international variations on those styles. Weirdly enough, the disco-mariachi songs here, while great, are far from the most danceable songs on the list. If you don&#;t believe me, check out the top video, where Marco Flores and his band create a barrage of anarchic polka moves, including Hiding Behind the Congas, for their banda-fied take on the Zacatecas state&#;s tamborazo music. Colmillo Norteño aren&#;t quite as terpsichorially ambitious with the waltz at #2, but they&#;ve still got moves.
You could call these the year&#;s best regional Mexican singles, but there&#;s a catch. &#;Regional Mexican&#; here includes Mexicans and non-Mexicans playing their takes on regional styles &#; norteño, banda, mariachi, and cumbia (not native to Mexico, but nation and format have embraced it), along with minor styles like Tejano, tierra caliente, and duranguense, if we&#;d found any. It doesn&#;t include Mexicans playing pop, although most of these songs register for listeners as pop songs. It also doesn&#;t include any Latinos playing reggaeton, bachata, or salsa, though NorteñoBlog broke that rule last year when Gerardo Ortiz released a full-throated bachata
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NAUCALPAN, MexicoNAUCALPAN, Mexico — Trumpets and trombones blast across a rodeo ring where women in miniskirts dance with men in cowboy hats and gold chains. Some fans try to climb onto the stage while others whoop to the deafening music and sing along to an outlaw ballad about one of the most-wanted criminal suspects in North America, an alleged drug kingpin.
“We take care of El Mayo
“Here no one betrays him…
“We stay tough with AKs and bazookas at the neck
“Chopping heads off as they come
“We’re bloody-thirsty crazy men
“Who like to kill.”
At the microphone is Alfredo Rios, whose stage name is “The Komander.” He’s a singer of Movimiento Alterado – “Altered Movement” in English – a new commercial brand of “narcocorrido” ballads that bluntly describe drug violence to the oompah beat of Mexico’s norteno music.
The songs are filled with unusually explicit lyrics about decapitations and torture, and praise for one drug gang in particular: the Sinaloa cartel and its bosses, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
The increasingly popular music is banned on radio stations in parts of Mexico but
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Mexican banda minstrel Alfredo Rios, better famous as Lift up Komander, earns his name with a commanding overstate presence. (photo by River Green)
by River Green
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