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Pachuco boogie, the postwar, Mexican-American adaptation of jump blues named after the 1948 Don Tosti single that launched the subgenre, came to fruition in East L.A., but its roots are in El Paso, ...
Don Tosti, the bandleader who helped spark a Mexican American musical craze half a century ago with his tune “Pachuco Boogie,” has died. He was 81. Tosti, who was diagnosed with advanced prostate ...
Folk heroes arise of a need to articulate feelings unsung by conventionality. Our real leaders, that is, people who actually run the country, are rarely inspirational enough to satisfy our need for ...
I can’t blame Roco, the singer for Maldita Vecindad, for lying to me. “Yeah, man… We have material for two or three albums,” he used to tell me for years. “Anytime now.” Yeah, right. The “anytime” ...
Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero Jr., who for 60 years created songs in Spanish and English chronicling the Mexican-American experience, including Pachuco music later used in the play "Zoot Suit," has died… By ...
Labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez expressed an interest in music from an early age. He grew up identifying as a pachuco, a young Mexican-American who wore zoot suits and listened to ...
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