![]() ![]() Sam Quiñones on Los Chalinillos, the next generation of narcocorrido singers. Like Tupac Shakur, Chalino wrote and recorded tons of songs in a short musical career he sang about the valientes - the tough and poor he had a fondness for firearms and he was ultimately gunned down, becoming even more famous after his death. His father, Mexican music legend Chalino Sánchez, took traditional corridos - ballads played in accordion-based polka or waltz rhythms - and radically changed the culture by toughing them up: wearing the cocked Tejana (cowboy hat), “barking” out his songs, allowing his fans to get onstage with him and pose for pictures, and speaking Sinaloan slang. ![]() “My dad started a way of dressing, a way of singing, a way of acting, a way of talking, everything,” says Adán Sánchez.
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