Los Tigres del Norte

   
Artist: Los Tigres del Norte

   Genre(s): 
Latin
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Detalles y Emociones

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 15


   
 La Muerte del Soplon

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15


   
 Historias Que Contar

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15


   
 Las Mas Pedidas

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


   
 Directo al corazo

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14


   
 21 Corridos Vol.2

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 21


   
 21 Corridos Vol.1

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 21


   
 Pacto de Sangre

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Herencia Musical: 20 Corridos Inolvidables

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 20


   
 Herencia Musical: 20 Boleros Romanticos

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 20


   
 La Reina Del Sur

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Uniendo Fronteras

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 Plaza Garibaldi

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 Herencia de Familia Disc 2

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Herencia de Familia Disc 1

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 La Garra de...

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 14


   
 Gracias America Sin Fronteras

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


   
 Los Dos Plebes

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 14


   
 Mi Buena Suerte

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 12


   
 Corridos Prohibidos

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 12


   
 24 Exitos Serie De Collecion

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 24


   
 Numero Ocho

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Corridos de Pelicula

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


   
 30 Grandes Exitos Disc 2

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 30 Grandes Exitos Disc 1

   Year:    
Tracks: 15

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No norteño act is more famous than Los Tigres del Norte, a mathematical group of Mexican-American brothers based in California wHO began their recording vocation in the early '70s and enjoyed widespread acclaim all over the following decades, recording regularly for Fonovisa Records from the 1980s forwards. The mathematical group is centered on lead singer and accordionist Jorge Hernández (the oldest of 11 children), wHO is joined in Los Tigres by his brothers Hernán (bass voice, vocals), Eduardo (piano accordion, sax, bass, vocals), and Luis (guitar, vocals), as well as his full cousin Oscar Lara (drums). In 1968 they leftfield Mexico for California (along with brother Raúl Hernández, wHO would leave the mathematical group in the nineties for a solo life history), in search of better way of supporting their family following an injury that prevented their forefather, D. Eduardo Hernández, from ranching whatever yearner. Their hometown is Rosa Morada, which is situated in the municipality of Mocorito in the western united States Department of State of Sinaloa. Their moniker arose when an immigration official called the boys "fiddling tigers" (a nickname for kids) as they crossed the perimeter, finally bound for San Jose, which became their longtime mansion house.


During the other '70s, Los Tigres became the low act signed to Fama Records. Founded by Art Walker, Fama grew to turn the in the lead Spanish-language record label on the West Coast. Walker, a local promoter, commencement heard the grouping on a lively radio presentation recorded at the local Parque de las Flores on Keyes Street in San Jose, and impressed with what he heard, he decided to make them the foundation of Fama. With his guidance, Los Tigres adoptive an electric style, trading in their traditional acoustic sound for one incorporating sea bass, drums, and electric guitar. The mathematical group too adoptive a modern approach to songwriting, accenting contemporaneous social themes common to Mexican-Americans.


Their breakthrough hit, "Contrabando y Traición" (1972), is exemplary. Like nearly of the group's songs, "Contrabando y Traición" is a corrido, which is an antique mode of tale birdcall common to the ladino cultural arena of North America, including the northern states of Mexico as well as the southwestern ones of the United States. Traditionally, corridos feature a salute or prologue; a history, often a legend or ballad of a paladin or deplorable native to northern Mexico; and in determination, a moral or lesson. However, "Contrabando y Traición" is a soundly advanced corrido, as it features a geminate of lovers world Health Organization traffic ganja across the perimeter in the tires of a cable car.


The song became a sizeable hit in southerly California and mark the course for the long, chronic success of Los Tigres, wHO went on to write a the great unwashed of illustrious modern-day corridos around the drug patronage (i.e., narcocorridos) and immigration. Corridos Prohibidos (1989), in particular, showcases the former, patch "Jaula de Oro," one of their most well-known and frequently compiled songs, is an illustration of the latter. The song dynasty, whose championship translates to Gilded Cage, inside information the plight of an undocumented actor in the United States: he swam crosswise the moulding 10 old age prior nonetheless smooth doesn't have his papers; his married woman and kids bear long since disregarded about Mexico, patch he longs to return still cannot; he asks his son if he would like to go back to Mexico, and his son responds, in English, "What are you talking about, Dad? I don't desire to go back to Mexico -- no way, Dad!"; and canned, the greek chorus laments, "What good is money/If I'm like a prisoner/Inside this big nation?/When I remember I cry/Although the gaol may be made of gold/It's still a prison house."


In the 1980s, Los Tigres moved to Fonovisa Records and furthered their success. Beginning with Jaula de Oro (1984), the group would regularly top the regional Mexican album chart stateside, and this success was acknowledged in 1987 when they won the initial Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance, for Gracias America...Sin Fronteras (1986). They afterwards would be nominative over a xII times, and that's non even enumeration the Latin Grammys. Los Tigres were afterwards prestigious with El Mas Grande Homenaje a Los Tigres del Norte (2001), a tribute album featuring many of the biggest name calling in Mexican pop/rock, such as Julieta Venegas and Molotov. Furthermore, beginning in 2003 Fonovisa began to accumulate a series of greatest-hits compilations coroneted Herencia Musical.


Throughout their long and storied career, Los Tigres, likewise known as Los Idolos del Pueblo and Los Jefes de Jefes, well-kept a respectable effigy, never glamorizing the dose craft nor any early criminal activity. They refused to be photographed with so much as a gun in sight. This breeze of reputability helped them boom their interview demographically as well as internationally. By the early 2000s, Los Tigres had begun touring globally and their shows often reflected the diversity of their fan home. Amid all of this activeness they continued cathartic albums on an annual base, and they began to branch out into film as well, with DVD videos comme il faut a regular summation to their CDs. In come, they've released over 50 albums, recorded all over five hundred songs, and appeared in over a xII films. In 2006, Fonovisa reissued some of these films as CD/DVDs, complementing the films -- cine de frontera classics such as La Banda del Carro Rojo and La Muerte del Soplon -- with thematic compilations of Los Tigres favorites.





APRA Music Awards winners