1 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Joseph, you know what, our next icons really got. 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: Me thinking, like deep thinking. Uh oh, I know it's 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 2: never a good thing, never a good thing. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,239 Speaker 1: Okay, so here's the deal. 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: We have covered family bands, I think just one other 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: time on becoming an icon, right. 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 3: M kids aka Selena elsnos, but most people have played 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 3: just for Selena. 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 4: Let's be real. 10 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 2: But our next icons that we're about to talk about 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: are a true group act, which kind of makes me 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 2: wonder if you had to start a family band with 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 2: your siblings because you've got a lot or maybe your cousins, 14 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 2: so I know you have a lot of those two 15 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: who is making the band? 16 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 4: Oh my god? You know what? Can I pick my 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 4: extended family? 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 3: Because my brothers' way like they're not going to be 19 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 3: able to I think I would be a one man show? 20 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 4: Or can I pick you? You would be good at drugs? 21 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 4: Who would be yours? I'm curious? 22 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 2: Okay, my brother is definitely not in the band. He 23 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 2: cannot carry you to and he cannot play an instrument, 24 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 2: Like he's not he could be like the tour manager, right, 25 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 2: like he'd be really really good at that. First of all, 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 2: if I'm starting a band, my mom is one of nine, 27 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 2: which means that I have six fias that are all crazy. 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: I am putting all the theas in my band. 29 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 4: Okay, wait, hold on, that's good. 30 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: Wait, but what kind of music are you guys going 31 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 3: to play? 32 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 2: Goombias av Okay, we're going to do some bombas. 33 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: We might do like some corridos. I don't know, but 34 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: probably just a lot of kubias like oh like what 35 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: they like to lance to, how they get turned up 36 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: at the Kingses. 37 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 4: Oh god, oh god, I love that. 38 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 2: If Santiago gets into his teen year okay and he 39 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 2: decides that he wants to be a pop star. By 40 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: the way, check my instagram because he was singing Sabrina 41 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: Carpenter's Espresso and it was so cute. Point is, if 42 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 2: he does take the stage as a superstar, then you 43 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: know you're doing his glam Oh. 44 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 3: Wait wait wait, honey, I already started on those palants 45 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 3: since he was born. Honey, I'm ready to hit the road. 46 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 4: Jack. 47 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 2: We are going on tour, y'all in twenty fifty, okay, 48 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: but today we are going to take you back in 49 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 2: time with some genuine, genuine heroes, especially folk heroes. When 50 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 2: it comes to Spanish music, and that is all about 51 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 2: Los gres. 52 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 3: Ver Noejorque, Ernand Eduardo Luis and cousin Oscar. 53 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 4: Five icons for the price of one. 54 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: We're so budget friendly, I know. 55 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 4: Now. 56 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: Los Vegas are beloved by Mexicanos all over the world, 57 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 2: even non Mexicanos. 58 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: Let's be honest. 59 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 2: Okay, they're part of that same generation as the icon 60 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 2: who kicked off the season of becoming an icon, Juan Gabrielle, 61 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 2: and like him, their rags to riches story is like 62 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 2: the stuff of legends. It's inspiring, it's irresistible, and we 63 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: cannot wait to share it with you. 64 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 4: Okay, it's true, but hold on, it's minus the looks 65 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 4: of Hongi's let's. 66 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 2: Not okay, but sometimes their suits do pop off when 67 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: they add a little colore. Okay, But the point is 68 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: their story is truly the stuff of music industry fairy tales. 69 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,519 Speaker 4: Mm hmm. It's got everything. 70 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 3: A magical childhood, a tragic accident that sends the kids 71 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 3: on the road, a big break, an agent with a 72 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: hidden agenda who threatens to ruin everything, disapproving authorities, and 73 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: millions of adoring fans like us. 74 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 2: It kind of sounds a little bit like a made 75 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: for TV movie like maybe on Netflix. I don't know which, 76 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 2: by the way, is appropriate, because their songs have even 77 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: inspired Beelen novelas and countless. 78 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 4: Films, no less than forty movies, get that, ip Pigres. 79 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 2: They are the biggest performers of Corrido's on planet Earth. 80 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: Punto don't come at me with this like zoomer stuff 81 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: like punto okay, And they helped transform the genre of 82 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 2: a relic of yesterday to a vital piece of migrant culture. 83 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 4: And from day one they've stuck up for the little 84 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 4: guy and. 85 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: It takes one to no one boo. 86 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 2: Los Digres started from nath and their story itself is 87 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: kind of like a Corrido MM. 88 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 3: And that's why we're wearing matching suits to my listeners 89 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 3: can't see. Also, this tub talk doesn't really fit me, y'all. 90 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: You're really missing out because Joseph in a smarge tube 91 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 2: top is a site to behold. 92 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Lillianavoska. 93 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 4: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is becoming an. 94 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 5: Icon weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on 95 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 5: how today's most famous. 96 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: Latin V stars have shaped pop culture. 97 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 4: And given the world some extra couple. 98 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: Sit back and get comfortable. 99 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 4: Because we are going in the only way we know 100 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 4: how with Buena vis When Lisas. 101 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 2: And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest 102 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 2: achievements on our journey to find out what makes them 103 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 2: still iconic. Before we wisk your way to Los Digre's 104 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 2: hometown in Sinaloa, Mexico, let's meet the band. And while 105 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 2: members have come and gone over the years, the original 106 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: OG band was a group of four boys. 107 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 3: Oh shit, this is going to be like an astrology 108 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 3: lightning round. Hold up, I got to get the essential oils. 109 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: Okay. Are your chakras all lined up like. 110 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 4: They're waiting for example sale? All right? Hitting Okay, So. 111 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 2: Let's start with the oldest head, nandas brother, which would 112 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: be now he was going to become the head of 113 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 2: the band, lead vocalist, the accordion player Avvy and his 114 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: birthday is August seventh, nineteen forty nine. 115 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 3: Oh whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, So this is a Leo 116 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 3: Sun Aquarius moon. It's giving natural leader and a showman 117 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 3: ambisious determine self assured, yet unconventional and eccentric. Big main 118 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 3: character energy but with a strong sense of responsibility, especially 119 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 3: towards children or mayhaps younger siblings. 120 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 4: Okay, thank you. 121 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 2: Next Okay, then there's Raoul Hernandez, a company vocalist and 122 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 2: bajo sextel player. Now, he was born sometime in late March, 123 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: but for some weird reason, his birthday isn't listed anywhere 124 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 2: on the Internet, which, by the way, like send me 125 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 2: the people that can scrub your birthday from the World 126 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 2: Wide Web. But apparently there is a video of his 127 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 2: seventieth birthday party that was posted on March twenty eighth. 128 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 4: So you do the mathay, investigative journalism at its finest. 129 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 4: You're welcome. 130 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to go with the aris son. So 131 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 3: that's a little headstrong, bold and direct. 132 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: Interesting since he would end up going solo in the nineties. 133 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 3: Oh, Spicy could be a Gemini moon wanting to try 134 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 3: something new, or a Leo moon looking for some more 135 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 3: creative glory, or maybe a Scorpio moon embracing change in 136 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 3: confronting the self. 137 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 4: But hey, we're just speculating. Next. 138 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 2: Next, El Primo cousin Oscar the drummer, because of course, 139 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 2: the cousin is always the drummer. 140 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 4: I was going to ask you to be our drummer, I. 141 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: Mean drummers, by the way, very important role in the band. 142 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 4: Okay. 143 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: Now he was born May twenty seventh, nineteen fifty. 144 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: Okay, Gemini's son Libra Moon. Curious and sociable. He's a 145 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 3: jack of all trades, but that sense of balance keeps 146 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 3: him from being a master of none. All right, boo, 147 00:07:58,440 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 3: bring us home? 148 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 2: Okay, Last, but not Lesvana the baby brother ed Nan Ernandez, 149 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 2: bass player and a companying vocalist, born nearly nine years 150 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 2: after the eldes nandas brother on June twenty second, nineteen 151 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 2: fifty eight. 152 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 3: A cancer sun and virgo moon Ednancito lives in his 153 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 3: feelings introverted to a fault and a bit critical, but 154 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 3: he's a realist who supports his loved ones. I love 155 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 3: a cancer okay. 156 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: So how does that all add up? 157 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 2: You know what? 158 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 4: It doesn't. But it's family, okay. 159 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 2: I mean, there has never been a truer statement told. 160 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: It's so true, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't add up. 161 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: We don't know how it works, right, And by the way, 162 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 2: do I need to pay you a bonus for all 163 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 2: those readings? 164 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 3: I literally feel like I just did a face off 165 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 3: on an astrological family feud, like I'm on a sky 166 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 3: high vibration. 167 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 4: Somebody gave me my weed pin. 168 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: Oh okay, let's slow things down a little bit. 169 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to take you on a little trip 170 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 2: back in time across the border to a little town 171 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 2: in Sinela, Mexico named Rosa Morada. 172 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 4: Hmmsda. Sounds like a place for a retreat. 173 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not quite, because this is a town with 174 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 2: a population in the hundreds, hundreds, hundreds. 175 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 4: Like, Okay, we're gonna keep this retreat real short. 176 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 1: Yes, but don't forget. 177 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:26,959 Speaker 2: We are going to take in the sites because Rosa 178 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 2: Morada is marked by miles of ranches back dropped by gorgeous, rolling, 179 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: distant hills. 180 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 4: Okay, Julie Andrews are there? 181 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 5: Sounds thank god, we're an audio format, right, Okay, I'm 182 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 5: gonna let. 183 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: Hernandez tell you about it. Here's what he said. 184 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 2: In the ranch, there was nothing. You wake up in 185 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 2: the morning and all you hear are the little birds, doves, sparrows, cardinals. 186 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 2: I found it very curious when the birds started singing 187 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 2: all at the same time. I thought it was marvelous. 188 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 2: I used to imitate little birds. That's how you start 189 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 2: to learn music through sounds. I understood it after I 190 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 2: was taught the musical notes from the birds trills. 191 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 3: Okay, now it's giving snow white, like did these birds 192 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 3: help them get dressed? 193 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 2: I think you're confusing that with Cinderella, and no, not 194 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 2: quite and as idyllic as we're making ros somewhat out 195 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 2: of sound. It's not to say that things were perfect. 196 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 2: This is still rural farm country in Mexico, Like. 197 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 4: There are more cows than there are people, farm country. 198 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 2: Bingo, And when there's more cows than people, families end 199 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 2: up using the kids as farm hands, the Ernandas boys. 200 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,719 Speaker 2: Dad used to tell them school comes first, but we 201 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,839 Speaker 2: also have to work. So after class, the boys went 202 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 2: straight to the tomato fields. Then they'd come home. 203 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,319 Speaker 4: And play literally with what energy? I mean? 204 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: I asked myself the same thing. 205 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 2: But like kiddos literally run on fumes, like they don't 206 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 2: need sleep, they don't need food, They just. 207 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: Have kid energy. 208 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 4: I love you, Santhia. 209 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 3: Okay, So none of this boys worked and played hard, 210 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 3: but they didn't just learn music from the birds like 211 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 3: a Disney movie. 212 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 4: No, they didn't. 213 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 2: You can imagine these kids didn't have any money to 214 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 2: buy instruments, so it was the cousins who came through. 215 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 2: One cousin, Jose Angulo, bought Forrge his first guitar, and 216 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 2: another cousin, Jove, taught him his first guitar chords. 217 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 4: Damn. The only thing my cousins ever taught me was 218 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 4: how to flip someone off. 219 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 2: That's, by the way. The only thing my cousins ever 220 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 2: taught me was how to chug a sema and not vomit. 221 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 4: Ooh you no, no, no, no no. 222 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: You don't want to chug a zema a zima wine clothes? 223 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 4: You know I did. I used to. I used to 224 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 4: witch all rangers. 225 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: This is why you don't need brothers and sisters, because 226 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: the cousins are up to no good. All right, but 227 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: I will say what you were taught. 228 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 2: Joseph, who does come in handy on a playground, It 229 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 2: does anyway, with holdhands learning his way around the sixth string, 230 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 2: the other Nanes brothers Raoulin or Nunn started to sing 231 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 2: with him just for fun, and Joseph, you just might 232 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 2: know what kind of music they were playing? 233 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 4: Who me? Yes you. 234 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: Let's flash back quickly to our very first Selena episode. 235 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 1: The melodies and vocal sensibilities of the Hannel drew from 236 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: generations of farmhands who enjoyed the songs of traveling musicians. 237 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 4: Oh okay, I see. All I needed was to know 238 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 4: where I fit in the story. 239 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: You're the wandering musician in my past life. 240 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. 241 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: Do you think that we played together in that way, 242 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: like maybe I was your accompanist, you. 243 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 4: Were one hundred percent and you followed me around with 244 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 4: an accordion. Yes? 245 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: Yes, So basically you and I invented the Hannel music. 246 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 4: You're welcome. 247 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: You are welcome people. 248 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 4: Okay, damn, I didn't know we were doing past life 249 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 4: aggressions on this retreat. 250 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: I had to book this way in advance. 251 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 4: You literally do so much for us. 252 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: Listen. I am a working mom. I can handle it all. 253 00:12:59,080 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 4: Okay. 254 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 3: So no Mexican music or came from generations of traveling 255 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 3: musicians singing songs that told stories AKA us and our pastors. 256 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 2: And the Hano music, which we learned about from Selena 257 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 2: is kind of just an evolution of Northeno music. 258 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 3: Which means the poka, accordion and guitars are all there, 259 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 3: but none of these boys are A long way from Texas. 260 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 3: So they're not hearing American rock like Selena's dad did, No, sir, these. 261 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 2: Kids are growing up hearing traditional music at Fiesta del Pueblo, 262 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 2: like gatherings when like the whole town would gather up 263 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 2: and turn up. 264 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 4: Come on, Rosa Morada. I know they know how to 265 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 4: turn up. 266 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: Uh huh, Mexicanos, we know how to do that shit, right. 267 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 5: I knew the whole town was getting the kids up 268 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 5: on stage to play facts and music was just a 269 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 5: part of life for the boys. It was their role 270 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 5: within the community. 271 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 3: Hey, when there's more cows than people, community is lital 272 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 3: really all you have. But honestly, I'm loving it, Like 273 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 3: maybe this is my trackwive. 274 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 2: Season, I kind of love that for you. But as 275 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 2: we know, the Ananda's brothers wouldn't stay in Rosamada forever, 276 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 2: and unfortunately the thing that would pull them away, No, 277 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 2: don't say it would be tragedy. 278 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 4: This big tragedy always crashing my fiestablo. 279 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: Well, actually that's literally what happened the Ananda. This boy's father, 280 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 2: Don Eduardo, was something of a volunteer sheriff and Rosa 281 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 2: Morad that was you know, the boonies and in Mexico, 282 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: it means you don't have federal officers for better or 283 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 2: for worse. 284 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: Well, in this case, it was for worse. 285 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 2: One night, Don Eduardo was checking in on a Fiesta 286 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 2: del pueblo, just like the ones his kids would play 287 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 2: music at, when he noticed an argument escalating between a 288 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 2: few party goers. 289 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 4: Uh oh, and Big Don, being the sheriff, had to 290 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 4: go break it up. 291 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, so he approaches them and without warning, guns are drawn, 292 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 2: shots are fired, and Don Eduardo is hit in the 293 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: spinal cort. He makes that alive, but he's immobilized and 294 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 2: a full recovery requires an operation that costs ten thousand bassos, 295 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 2: which might not sound like much, but remember this is 296 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: a small family of farmers in Sineloa. 297 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, so basically it's like a good jillion dollars. 298 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 2: And with Don d Wado in his condition, Jorg who's 299 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 2: still a minor, becomes head of the family, and as 300 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 2: head of the family, he makes a decision. They're going 301 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 2: to leave town and or money as musicians to save 302 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 2: up enough money to pay for their dad's recovery. Wait, what, Joseph, 303 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 2: can you imagine being twelve years old your father has 304 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 2: just been shot in the spine, and now you have 305 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 2: to leave home to make money to make sure. 306 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: That he gets the care that he needs. 307 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 2: I mean that is a massive amount of weight for anyone, 308 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 2: let alone a tween. 309 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 4: That is a start to a really good novella. 310 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 2: Whatever we make of their sense of judgment. And remember 311 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 2: all of them are under age at this point. 312 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 4: I was about to say they're like kids. 313 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 2: They're literally kids making very adult decisions. We know it 314 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: was going to turn out for the better, but it 315 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 2: would just take a while. And their first up on 316 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 2: the road Mexicali, capital of Baja California, home to farmers 317 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 2: and factory workers. 318 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 4: We're knocking on doors of bars and restaurants, begging them 319 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 4: to let us play. It's giving a little bit of 320 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 4: Selena and her siblings and a little bit of Santana 321 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 4: and his dad. 322 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: Wait, with one obvious difference. 323 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 2: Hello, there's no Abraham Pintania here calling the shots being 324 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 2: all Abraham right. And it's not Carlos Santana getting dragged 325 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: to the red light district by his dad. 326 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 5: Jorge, Ernan, Raoul and cousin Oscar were in a new 327 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 5: city all on their own as kids. I mean, these 328 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 5: boys had never left Rossa, Murada before. 329 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 3: Okay, it's almost a little home alone too, but without 330 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 3: rich daddy's credit card. You know, these kids are out 331 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 3: here fending for themselves, and little Jorgie has to fill 332 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 3: their dad's shoes. But at least they like to play 333 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 3: music together. 334 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: Okay, right, and the Hernandez boys weren't unoscomemierdas. I mean, 335 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 2: they were all serious about helping their dad. They hustled hard, 336 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 2: and they love those cash tips, girl fan. They would 337 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 2: save up that chip money and rush to the telegraph 338 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 2: office every week to send it back to their family 339 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 2: in Drosamorada. 340 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 4: Soon enough they didn't have to bang on doors anymore. 341 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 3: They had a rotation, a reputation, and a band name 342 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 3: Lost Chiwawa. 343 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: I mean it's a little long, kind of a mouthful. 344 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: I think we could workshop it a little bit. 345 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't quite hit like Los Thiga is. But 346 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 4: the new name was. 347 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: Honest, along with a very unique opportunity. 348 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 2: One fateful day in nineteen sixty eight, the boys went 349 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 2: to the telegraph office like us, and there they would. 350 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 4: Meet my Stroleo Nides. 351 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: Isn't that the kind of name that needs a drum roll? 352 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 4: Literally, El Maestro was a local fixture in Mexicali. 353 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 3: He was one of those guys that had the tea 354 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 3: on every building on every block in town, who lived 355 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 3: there and when, who got married at were church? 356 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 4: Who cheated on who with who? 357 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 1: And per his nickname. 358 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: He was a music enthusiast who helped write a local 359 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 2: column about Mexican classical music. And when he met the 360 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 2: then Northaniels the Chihuahua, he offered them a record. You 361 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 2: m no more like a once in a lifetime opportunity 362 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 2: to travel to play a single then mile celebration show 363 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 2: at Solidad Prison in sunny San Jose, California. 364 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, no disrespect to Almeestro, but this is beyond. 365 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 2: Thus I mean correct right like growing up in the eighties, 366 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 2: I mean I am screaming stranger danger, like an old 367 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 2: strange man wants to send you across the border to 368 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 2: a prison to play music, and. 369 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 4: They said yes, Like where is the kid's father? Oh way, 370 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 4: just kim. 371 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 2: It's definitely the first time in the story where I'm like, 372 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 2: oh yeah, these are little boys. 373 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: And I should add this show was for free. There 374 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 1: was no payment. 375 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 3: We should say this again for the listeners always read 376 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 3: your contracts, Nikki Jam. 377 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: We should also probably mention that in January of that year, 378 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: Johnny Cash had played his two legendary shows at fulsome 379 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: prison in California, So maybe this was inspired by. 380 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 4: That Johnny Cash. It's the same difference. 381 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 2: No, I'm just trying to give you context, okay, like 382 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 2: you are learning all about history of rock music Northaniel, 383 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 2: Like we're giving it all to you, okay. We are 384 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 2: equal opportunity to share ers of musical knowledge. Either way, 385 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 2: this was an opportunity to make themselves known in Gringo Landia. 386 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 2: So they packed up and headed for California, and it 387 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 2: was there at the border office where, of all people, 388 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 2: a relentlessly chatty immigration officer gave the band their name. 389 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 4: Hey, whatever gets you over that line? 390 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 5: Nihak For real, though, this border officer looked them up 391 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 5: and down and says, say, what's a few youngsters like 392 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 5: you doing crossing the. 393 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 1: Border playing music? 394 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 4: Ugh? 395 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: Oh just ugh ugh I know right, And then he 396 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: like say, you know what you should call yourself? The 397 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: Little Tigers of the North. 398 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 4: Sure I won't have enough strive here. 399 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 2: I mean I just need this banda stop, like, please 400 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 2: stop talking to me, right, So the boys are there 401 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 2: waiting for this rando to give them their papers and 402 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,959 Speaker 2: the green stamp, but the guy just keeps brainstorming their 403 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 2: band name out loud. Again, no one asked him for 404 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 2: his opinion, and when he realizes that these boys are 405 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 2: eventually going to grow up to be men, he decides 406 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 2: to drop the little from the Tigers. 407 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: Thus los Figres del Norte. 408 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 4: I love, But Sarah calls, whatever you want, just let 409 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 4: us cross the border up in this. 410 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: And listeners, what Joseph just said is a direct quote. 411 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 4: We put up with so much. So the newly christened 412 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 4: Norte finally get to San Jose and. 413 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 1: They play a few shows there in anticipation of the 414 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: big show at Sonadad Prison. Then the big day comes. 415 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: The boys arrive and. 416 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 4: No ones home. 417 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 2: All the other musicians who had come to play are 418 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 2: gone vanished, and the promoter who accompanied them across the 419 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 2: border and helped organize the show is also nowhere to 420 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 2: be found. These boys are all alone in San Jose. 421 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 3: I think this is a recurring nightmare I used to have, 422 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 3: Like I get my biggest client ever and then when 423 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 3: I show up to the job, they're like, oh, I'm sorry, sweetie, 424 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 3: you're here for who. 425 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: Wait, by the way, this is so off topic, but 426 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: who is your dream client? 427 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 5: Like? 428 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 4: Cool? Is that Kate Planchet? I know, I just love 429 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 4: her and her skin. 430 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 3: I just want to stick my fingers in her mouth 431 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 3: because she so her skin is so supple, and I 432 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 3: just want to, like, I don't know, she's so gorgeous. 433 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 2: Also, your style and aesthetic really vibes because she's so 434 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 2: minimal and just naturally gorgeous, and you are all about 435 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 2: really like minimal beautiful, like letting people's features and skin 436 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 2: be the hero. 437 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: Not the makeup. 438 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 4: I want to look like her. 439 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,679 Speaker 2: Let's manifest it, like, let's let's make it happen. Okay, sorry, guys, 440 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 2: back to Los Vegos. Okay, So to this day, Los 441 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 2: Digos still don't actually know what happened. It's a genuine mystery. 442 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,719 Speaker 2: So iHeart, if you're listening and you want to make 443 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 2: a little like mystery show about music, can we make. 444 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: A podcast about what? Yes, let us hold that faithful 445 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: day at the prison? 446 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 4: Oh my god, yes, let us host it. We could 447 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 4: totally solve this mystery. 448 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 2: Me and you, I mean I am basically FBI like, 449 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 2: don't cross me, don't try to hide shit from me, 450 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 2: like I will find you, I will track you, I 451 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 2: will use all the computer programs like I have my ways. 452 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 4: I love that. So Los Digaas found themselves more than 453 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 4: a thousand miles away from their hometown of Rossamorada, with 454 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 4: nothing to their name but their clothes, instruments, and savings. 455 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 4: So like, how could anything get worse? 456 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: I have an idea. How about their passports go missing? 457 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 4: Shut your button? This is like the se about losing 458 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 4: your purse. 459 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 2: Ah okay, So here's what's happening. You are an immigrant, 460 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 2: a stranger in a stranger land, and in the blink 461 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,199 Speaker 2: of an eye, your one legal lifeline is missing. 462 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 4: So the boys suddenly find themselves seen Babels La Mia 463 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 4: right around the corner, like cut down. 464 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 2: I have to say, I know this happened a long 465 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 2: time ago, but this feeling of like not having your 466 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 2: paper as you brought bell as your shit in order, 467 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 2: like very present today for so many people. Like yeah, 468 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 2: it's not a feeling that goes away, Like by the way, 469 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 2: I'm a US citizen and like if I misplaced my 470 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: passport or if I am going to cross into Mexico, 471 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 2: like I've crossed in you know, through d Wana, because 472 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 2: it's close to here. 473 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: It's I still am like. 474 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 4: Oh my god, doesn't it feel so scary. 475 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, are they gonna let me back? I feel 476 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: like I'm going to go to jail. 477 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I'm just gonna be stuck and 478 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 3: I'm going to jail randomly, Like I don't know why 479 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 3: I would go to jail. 480 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 4: I just don't have a passport. 481 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 2: Because you just feel guilty, Like you just feel like, 482 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 2: oh my god, what if they don't let me, Like 483 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 2: when I cross over, like at an airport, or at 484 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 2: any any checkpoint, any immigration checkpoint, Like when I see immigration, 485 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 2: I'm scared, Like I don't feel I can be holding 486 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 2: my passport and I'm still nervous. 487 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 4: Oh my god, we're programmed. 488 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 2: This is the sad part, right, So imagine this at 489 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 2: like ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen years old. 490 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:01,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, trauma. 491 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 2: But fortunately for Losgees, an immigrant family took pity on 492 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 2: them and offered them lodging in their home. So the 493 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 2: boys went back to playing bars and restaurants, A. 494 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 4: Dollar here, a quartered there, whatever they could manage for 495 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 4: Poppy's surgery. They were on borrow time, and they stayed 496 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 4: on their grind. 497 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 2: Jote worked as a janitor at San Jose State University 498 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 2: and took English classes, while the rest of the boys 499 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 2: worked as gardeners. But as fate would have it, yet 500 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 2: another mysterious stranger would show up, and this one would 501 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 2: eventually turn things around for Los Theiites. 502 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: The same year they were ghosted at solad that prison. 503 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 3: Wait ghosted at sold a Prism. That's to relea my 504 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 3: debut country on them. 505 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 2: Losgas de Norte, who are now between the ages of 506 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 2: ten and fifteen, find themselves singing on a local San 507 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 2: Jose rai And. 508 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 3: As we've learned this season, radio in the fifties and 509 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 3: sixties is legit magic. Putting your voice on the airwaves 510 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 3: is basically like putting your intentions out in the universe. 511 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 2: Just supercharged, and the airwaves carried Los thegis music to 512 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 2: the ears of someone very unexpected, an expat from Manchester, 513 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 2: England who did not speak a word of Spanish but 514 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 2: was fascinated by the Northeno sound of Los Figras. 515 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: His name was Artwalker, but Los Figos like to call 516 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: him Arturo Kaminante. 517 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 3: Oh cute, okay, so Arturo walks up to them and says, hey, kids, 518 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 3: I've got a record company and I'm going to up 519 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 3: your game. 520 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 5: And even though this sounds like an Amber alert way 521 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 5: to happen, it does turn out that Arthudle's got the guds. 522 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 3: I think of all the episodes we've done, this is 523 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 3: the one that you should absolutely make sure Santi does 524 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 3: not listen to. 525 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 2: I mean, I just finished watching the Nickelodeon documentary. Like 526 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 2: I can tell you this, my child is not going 527 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 2: anywhere near the entertainment industry, okay, and my child is 528 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 2: never going to think that they need the help of 529 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 2: a strange British Man to make it in any bus 530 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 2: but definitely not the music business. All right, Now, here's 531 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 2: the calasting question for you, because this is my favorite 532 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 2: part of our fake production company. Who should we cast 533 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 2: to play the strange British man in the Los Fgos biopic. 534 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say, honestly, Hugh Grant, because he is 535 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 3: just the quintessential British guy that we all need in 536 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 3: our lives. 537 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 4: Okay. 538 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 2: So Hugh Grant delivers on his promise and he buys 539 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 2: Los Figas all new instruments, gets them studio time and Bam. 540 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 1: They record their first. 541 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 4: Album MMMA like ra mora misicos, which can we talk 542 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 4: about the title for the love of My children like 543 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 4: they were little boys. 544 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, they were singing the gorridles that they knew from home. 545 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 2: And we're gonna get into the history of goridos next episode, 546 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 2: because it's obviously an ex loastive genre and music right 547 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 2: now and we want to get into the details. 548 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: But again next episode. For now, let's just go back 549 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: to the boys. 550 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 2: Let's just say that the boy's sound was fresh, but 551 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 2: still unpolished, and success did not come quickly. 552 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 4: So the boy's life in Drossa, Morada was go to school, 553 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 4: pick tomatoes, play music. Now in San Jose it looked 554 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 4: pretty much the same, only Jorgia had to clean toilets 555 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 4: and learn English and sometimes they sing in the studio. 556 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: These boys would record four consecutive albums under the wing 557 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: of Arturo Caminante, but as I entered the nineteen seventies, 558 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: they weren't getting much traction and they started to think 559 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: about calling it quits. 560 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 3: But when Sennor Caminante heard this, he pulled the fire 561 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 3: alarm and reorganized the band. All the boys switched instruments, except. 562 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: Then they added a saxophone player. 563 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 2: Named lube Oibo, who had a distinctly Northeniel playing style 564 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 2: that gave the thiga sound a little extra heat. 565 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 4: By this point, Jorgio was now a grown up and 566 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 4: officially the band leader, so art Walker took him to 567 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 4: US Angeles to meet with a promising songwriter named Angel Gonzalez. 568 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 2: And this is the songwriter who would show Jorgia the 569 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 2: tune that would propel Los Figris to heights. 570 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: They've never even dreamed of. 571 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 4: Wait, can I do it? 572 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: Of course? 573 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 4: Boo, that's next time on becoming an Icon. 574 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 2: On the next Becoming an Icon, Contrabando Ytracion finally launches 575 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 2: Los Figras career along with the Narco Corridon. Becoming an 576 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 2: Icon is presented by Sonoro and Iheart's Michael Gurda podcast network. 577 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 2: Listen to Becoming an Icon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, 578 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 2: or wherever you get your podcasts.