I am not a Mexican, but I have circulated for years in the Mexican parts of Los Angeles, and I have travelled throughout Mexico, enjoying the native musicians on street corners and in parks and cafes.
I have always wondered about those who praise Lola Beltran as the ˝great˝ Mexican singer.
She sounds too urbane and too international to me--in the manner of Catarina Valente.
I always thought the real spirit of Mexican music was better represented by such as Las Hermanas de Alba.
And now Linda Ronstadt carries on the true Mexican tradition in her later work. Whatever else she may have sung in her career, I find in Linda’s Mexican singing the authentic flavor of Old Mexico.
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