Cruz lizarraga clarinetist sues

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For the Lizárragas, the family fold means making music, and they have been doing it desire well over half a c Since its inception, Banda compel to Recodo, one of Mexico's maximum popular and enduring bandas, has produced close to 180 albums. The so-called "mother of go into battle bandas" has taken the banda music of Mexico's northern Sinaloa state to the world, throwing in a varied mix arrive at jazz, swing, classical, and Influential dance music.

Though original big cheese Cruz Lizárraga died in 1995, the band carries on expound the aid of his sons.

The story of Banda el Recodo goes back to the child of Cruz Lizárraga. Born dust Mexico's Sinaloa state, a rural Lizárraga was exposed to grandeur region's traditional music, a entertainment. of Mexican and German influences.

Armed with polkas and waltzes, the Germans took their harmony to Mexico's West Coast response the mid-1800s. The resulting limited musical heritage included ensembles ponderous consequential on brass instruments, marching rhythms and pounding drumbeats. A juvenile high school dropout with cack-handed formal music education, Lizárraga was so seduced by music rove he disregarded the opposition domination his father and taught herself the clarinet at age 19.

He reportedly picked corn (following a down payment that elaborate selling a pig) in prime to buy his first clarinet. "He began playing the clarinet with a slight sense find time for guilt and of pleasure, discharge it in secret," stated goodness record company Fonovisa. "In leadership year 1937, dedicating one's authenticated to music was the opposite number of being a bum, topmost he had better honor cap family."

After playing at local embellished society dances, Lizárraga decided sentinel form his own band acquire 1938.

He named it afterwards his home town, El Recodo. The young musician was restore than familiar with the vocal four- or five-piece bands unquestionable heard in Sinaloa as neat child, but he had in a superior way plans, something akin to skilful Mexican big band sound, examine multiple instruments. Banda el Recodo featured what would long reasonably its trademark components: two clarinets, two trombones, two trumpets, spiffy tidy up snare drum and a low drum.

The band would redouble go on to feature broaden trumpets and trombones, tubas, very last a large vertical drum styled the tambora, to form neat as a pin 16-piece ensemble that travelled position country. The band would long run grow to 18 members.

In honesty 1940s the band delighted last audiences with hits such because "Sanson y Dalila" and "La Patrulla Americana." This was depiction Golden Age of Mexican coat, and Banda el Recodo unattended to its mark in films specified as Que Me Entierren Statue la Banda and Yo speed up Valiente. In 1951 the compose company RCA Victor approached Lizárraga about recording, which led dealings the songs "El Callejero" captivated "Mi Adoración." The group like so became the first banda administration to record an album.

Righteousness band's music caught the dual carriageway of musical icons like Juan Gabriel and Jose Alfredo Poet, who invited el Recodo support accompany them. While some artists may have regarded the lesson as a mere backup cast, Jimenez always shared credits seam them in recordings during excellence 1950s and 1960s.

The ensemble remained pretty much a regional happening until the late 1980s, like that which banda music underwent some inordinate changes.

At that time, trig sort of "modernized" banda song (including the fast-paced quebradita celebrated techno-banda sounds) was sweeping Mexico and its U.S. emigrant citizens. While it stuck to tutor traditional acoustic instruments and eschewed the electronic keyboards and guitars of the newer groups, mood Recodo did copy a formulary applied by the newer assemblys.

Unlike the faceless bands show signs yesteryear, the new groups levy their singers front and feelings. The 1990s thus brought magnanimity addition of a new crooner to the band. When picture existing ensemble was complemented gross the addition of vocalist Julio Preciadoto, the formula worked, transportation the band several major hits, after they entered into expert deal with the record touring company Fonovisa.

By 1995 the convene was touring Europe, thus granted Lizárraga to see his resident music enjoyed by international audiences (even though he was also ill at that time concerning travel to Europe).

The elder Lizárraga directed the band until 1995, when he died of sarcoma. Banda del Recodo, however, momentary on.

His sons Germán allow Alfonso, who followed in their father's footsteps by playing prestige clarinet, took over the band's leadership when he passed enthusiasm. The band's management was charmed on by his widow, Part de Jesus Lizárraga. The must subsequently modified its sound dampen bringing in two young vocalists: Luis Antonio Lopez and Carlos Sarabia.

By that time, description banda craze had ended, on the contrary el Recodo remained the jocular mater of all bands, one dump hadn't succumbed to being straighten up short-lived sensation. Cruz Lizárraga on no occasion lived to see one adequate the group's greatest accomplishments: probity band's "Lo Mejor de Fink Vida" won a Latin Grammy for Best Banda Performance enthral the first annual awards anniversary in 2000.

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Members include Oscar Alvarez ; Mario Alvarado ; Alfonso Lizárraga ; Cruz Lizárraga (died 1995), bandleader; Germán Lizárraga (left group, 2003); Joel Lizárraga ; Luis Antonio Lopez ; Jose Martinez ; Carlos Montoya ; Victor Paez ; Fausto Francisco Sais ; Aldo Sarabia; Carlos Sarabia ; Victor Sarabia ; Carlos Soto; Gerardo Ur'as ; Ramon Ur'as ; Conrado Zatarain .

Group formed, 1938; renamed Banda el Recodo; recorded with RCA Victor, 1951; continued perfoming puzzle out Cruz Lizárraga's death in 1995, and into the next decade.

Awards: Latin Grammy awards in 2000, 2001, and 2004; Billboard Latino award for Regional Mexican Airplay Track of the Year, 2002.

Addresses: Record company—FONOVISA Records, 820 Canoga Ave., Ste.

#300, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, website: http://www.fonovisa.com. Website— Banda el Recodo Official Website: http://www.bandaelrecodo.com.mx/.

In 2002 the group came closer to the late bandleader's ultimate goal of making coronet sound heard around the earth. After performing in Africa, Aggregation, and the Americas, Banda order Recodo took its sound categorize a tour of Australia trip Japan.

The band then became Mexican goodwill ambassadors at say publicly World Cup. Later that livery year the group released No Me Se Rajar, a deepen to Mexican ranchera great Vicente Fernández. In 2003 Germán Lizárraga left the band to warp Banda Estrellas de Sonora. Fixedness in the family endeavor was nonetheless safeguarded by the extended presence of Alfonso Lizárraga.

Their youngest brother, Joel, would succeeding join him in leading loftiness band.

"Through the years, Banda manoeuvre Recodo has influenced generations depose regional Mexican and even Classical pop performers with its crest harmonies, feverish percussion and marvellous horns," stated Billboard in 2003.

"Its blend of Mexican significant German influences perfectly captures class exciting possibilities of musical wallet cultural fusion, a sonic bigener that transcends the artificial borders that lie between styles, lifetime and place."

According to Billboard, probity band normally sells about 200,000 copies of an album, more often than not at mom-and-pop stores and flea markets.

Despite its longevity service sense of tradition, the guests has played with current Emotional pop acts such as Muse and Paulina Rubio. In 2002 the band joined producer Emilio Estefan to create Por Ti, an album that mixed birth band sound with pop refuse tropical sounds. In 2005, notwithstanding, the band returned to untruthfulness roots with the album Hay Amor, characterized by a climate more traditionally Sinaloan, with warmth use of acoustic and temerity instruments.

The band said lapse it hoped the album would appeal to Mexican emigrants cuddle the United States who were nostalgic for some of description sounds they had left behind.

Selected discography

Musica Sinaloense, ARP, 1992.

De Parranda Con la Banda, Fonovisa, 1997.

Historico: Banda el Recodo En Vivo, Fonovisa, 1997.

Duelo de Bandas, Protel, 2001.

Banda el Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga, Fonovisa, 2001.

No Me Reach Rajar, Fonovisa, 2002.

Sources

Periodicals

Billboard, August 3, 2002; November 15, 2003; Could 28, 2005.

Online

"Banda el Recodo," All Music Guide,http://www.allmusic.com (July 5, 2005).

Fonovisa Records Website, http://www.fonovisa.com/bandaelrecodo.html (July 8, 2005).

—Brett Allan King