La Sonora Santanera

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La Sonora Santanera is a Mexican big band that is mainly active in the field of Música Tropical . It usually appears as a full orchestra, including accompanying vocals, with well-known, mainly Mexican, singers.

history

The music group was founded in 1955 in the Colonia Valle Gómez , a district in the Delegación Venustiano Carranza in northeast Mexico City . First was called Tropical Santanera , with the preserved until today term Santanera from Barra de Santana derived; a small community in the Mexican state of Tabasco , from which its founder and first music director Carlos Colorado Vera came.

When the group had an engagement at the Teatro Folies in 1959 , the businessman and comedian Jesús Martínez "Palillo" changed its name to La Sonora Santanera , under which the group still operates today. In 1961 they released their first albums and the song La Boa was their first big hit. At the end of the same year they began working with the singer Sonia López , with whom they recorded the entire album Sonora Santanera Canta Sonia López in 1962 , which is still Sonora Santanera’s best-selling album to this day.

In the early 1970s, several blows of fate occurred. Her bongo player Armando Espinoza was first murdered in February 1973 , and Arturo Ortiz joined the group in his place. In the following year, its founder and first trumpeter Carlos Colorado had to withdraw due to illness and was often represented by Antonio Méndez.

When their tour bus collided with a truck on April 25, 1986, Carlos Colorado was killed and many other band members were injured, some seriously. After recovery, the group reported back with their 1987 album Dios sí perdona, el tiempo no .

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