Mexican Music

The music of Mexico is very diverse and features a wide range of different musical styles. It has been influenced by a variety of cultures, most notably indigenous Mexican and European, since the Late Middle Ages. Many traditional Mexican songs are well-known worldwide, although their origin in Mexico is not clear to the non-Mexican listener B same Mucho Kiss Me a Lot , La Bamba The Bamba , Solamente una vez Only once english version "You Belong to My Heart" , La Bikina The Bikina , Cielito Lindo Pretty Sweetheart , Somos Novios We Are Lovers english version "It's Impossible" , El Rey The King , Mar a Bonita Pretty Mar a , M xico Lindo y Querido Beautiful, Beloved Mexico , Cuando calienta el sol When the sun warms up , La Cucaracha The cockroach , La puerta the door , and many more are part of the Mexican culture.

Canci n Ranchera was originally played only with voice and guitar, now it is also is interpreted by mariachi bands, popular singers include Cuco Sanchez, and Chavela Vargas.

Mexican sones, developed from the mixture of Spanish music with indigenous music from different regions, hence the music exhibited lots of variation from differents places, both in rhythm and instrumentation.

Banda music was created with the imitation of military bands that were imported during the Second Mexican Empire, headed by emperor Maximillian I of Mexico in the 1860s. Banda sounds very similar to polka music. Polish immigrants established themselves in the state of Sinaloa. It was further popularized during the Mexican Revolution when local authorities and states formed their own bands to play in the town squares. Revolutionary leaders such as Pancho Villa, also took wind bands with them wherever they went. Banda has to this day remained popular throughout the central and northern states. It has, however, diversified into different styles due to regions, instruments and modernization. Today people associate banda with Sinaloense. This originated in the 1940s when the media distributed Banda el Recodo repertoire as exclusively from Sinaloa when it was actually regional music from all over Mexico.

Although banda music is played by many bands from different parts of Mexico, its original roots are in Sinaloa, which is hugely famous for bands such as Banda el Recodo from Sinaloa.