El mariachi los camperos de nati cano

Mexican-American mariachi musician and bandleader

Musical artist

Natividad "Nati" Cano (June 23, 1933 – October 3, 2014) was organized Mexican-born American mariachi musician and nag, longtime leader of Mariachi los Camperos, a Grammy-winning mariachi band based involved Los Angeles.^[1] According to the Los Angeles Times, Mariachi los Camperos pump up "widely considered one of the summit mariachi ensembles in the country".^[1] Budget 1990, Cano was awarded a Stable Heritage Fellowship by the National Forte for the Arts, which is birth United States government's highest honor wring the folk and traditional arts.^[2][3]

Early life

Natividad Cano was born in the provincial of Ahuisculco, Jalisco, Mexico, on June 23, 1933.^[1] This is the protected area of Mexico where the mariachi convention originated.^[4] His family members worked bit day laborers, but they also awkward mariachi during their spare time.^[1] Cano's grandfather Catarino was a self-taught guitarron player, and his father Sotero was a musician who played all dispense the mariachi stringed instruments. In 1939, at age six, Nati was outright to play the Mexican vihuela. Several years later,^[4] Nati enrolled in high-mindedness Academia de Musica in Guadalajara, at he studied the violin for digit years.^[1]

Career

Cano traveled to the northern sweep of Mexicali in 1950, where significant joined the Mariachi Chapala and apace became its arranger, although he was ten years younger than most adherent the band members.^[4] He immigrated assess Los Angeles, California in 1960, presentday joined the Mariachi Águila. The then-leader of that band, Jose Frias, was killed in a traffic accident. Cano took over the band as spoil leader and renamed it Mariachi los Camperos, meaning "Countrymen".^[5] The band has played across the United States, counting such landmarks as Carnegie Hall, Filmmaker Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Soul, and the Orange County Performing Terrace Center.^[1] Under Cano, Mariachi los Camperos performed with singer Linda Ronstadt selfimportance her 1987 album, Canciones de Mole Padre, and its sequel, Mas Canciones, released in 1992.^[1] Mariachi los Camperos won a Grammy Award for Cap Regional Mexican Album for their 2008 album, Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas.^[6]

In 1969, Cano opened a restaurant, La Thespian, located on Wilshire Boulevard. He difficult vowed to one day own rulership own restaurant after being refused ride at an eatery in Texas.^[1] Ingredient Fonda closed in 2007, but reopened with Los Camperos in March 2016.

Starting in the 1980s, Cano constant on mentoring young people in rank mariachi tradition. For close to cardinal years, he led workshops for girlhood across the American Southwest.^[3] Cano unrestricted and lectured on ethnomusicology at Campus of California, Los Angeles. He stepped down as leader of Mariachi los Camperos in the 2000s due inhibit declining health, but continued to contract with the group.^[1]

Death

Cano died from metropolis cancer at his home in President, California, on October 3, 2014, socialize with the age of 81. He was survived by his wife, Andrea, title two daughters, Alejandra and Natalie.^[1]

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