Speaker 1: Joseph, you know what, our next icons really got.
Speaker 2: Me thinking, like deep thinking. Uh oh, I know it's
Speaker 2: never a good thing, never a good thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, so here's the deal.
Speaker 2: We have covered family bands, I think just one other
Speaker 2: time on becoming an icon, right.
Speaker 3: M kids aka Selena elsnos, but most people have played
Speaker 3: just for Selena.
Speaker 4: Let's be real.
Speaker 2: But our next icons that we're about to talk about
Speaker 2: are a true group act, which kind of makes me
Speaker 2: wonder if you had to start a family band with
Speaker 2: your siblings because you've got a lot or maybe your cousins,
Speaker 2: so I know you have a lot of those two
Speaker 2: who is making the band?
Speaker 4: Oh my god? You know what? Can I pick my
Speaker 4: extended family?
Speaker 3: Because my brothers' way like they're not going to be
Speaker 3: able to I think I would be a one man show?
Speaker 4: Or can I pick you? You would be good at drugs?
Speaker 4: Who would be yours? I'm curious?
Speaker 2: Okay, my brother is definitely not in the band. He
Speaker 2: cannot carry you to and he cannot play an instrument,
Speaker 2: Like he's not he could be like the tour manager, right,
Speaker 2: like he'd be really really good at that. First of all,
Speaker 2: if I'm starting a band, my mom is one of nine,
Speaker 2: which means that I have six fias that are all crazy.
Speaker 2: I am putting all the theas in my band.
Speaker 4: Okay, wait, hold on, that's good.
Speaker 3: Wait, but what kind of music are you guys going
Speaker 3: to play?
Speaker 2: Goombias av Okay, we're going to do some bombas.
Speaker 1: We might do like some corridos. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: probably just a lot of kubias like oh like what
Speaker 1: they like to lance to, how they get turned up
Speaker 1: at the Kingses.
Speaker 4: Oh god, oh god, I love that.
Speaker 2: If Santiago gets into his teen year okay and he
Speaker 2: decides that he wants to be a pop star. By
Speaker 2: the way, check my instagram because he was singing Sabrina
Speaker 2: Carpenter's Espresso and it was so cute. Point is, if
Speaker 2: he does take the stage as a superstar, then you
Speaker 2: know you're doing his glam Oh.
Speaker 3: Wait wait wait, honey, I already started on those palants
Speaker 3: since he was born. Honey, I'm ready to hit the road.
Speaker 4: Jack.
Speaker 2: We are going on tour, y'all in twenty fifty, okay,
Speaker 2: but today we are going to take you back in
Speaker 2: time with some genuine, genuine heroes, especially folk heroes. When
Speaker 2: it comes to Spanish music, and that is all about
Speaker 2: Los gres.
Speaker 3: Ver Noejorque, Ernand Eduardo Luis and cousin Oscar.
Speaker 4: Five icons for the price of one.
Speaker 1: We're so budget friendly, I know.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Los Vegas are beloved by Mexicanos all over the world,
Speaker 2: even non Mexicanos.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Okay, they're part of that same generation as the icon
Speaker 2: who kicked off the season of becoming an icon, Juan Gabrielle,
Speaker 2: and like him, their rags to riches story is like
Speaker 2: the stuff of legends. It's inspiring, it's irresistible, and we
Speaker 2: cannot wait to share it with you.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's true, but hold on, it's minus the looks
Speaker 4: of Hongi's let's.
Speaker 2: Not okay, but sometimes their suits do pop off when
Speaker 2: they add a little colore. Okay, But the point is
Speaker 2: their story is truly the stuff of music industry fairy tales.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. It's got everything.
Speaker 3: A magical childhood, a tragic accident that sends the kids
Speaker 3: on the road, a big break, an agent with a
Speaker 3: hidden agenda who threatens to ruin everything, disapproving authorities, and
Speaker 3: millions of adoring fans like us.
Speaker 2: It kind of sounds a little bit like a made
Speaker 2: for TV movie like maybe on Netflix. I don't know which,
Speaker 2: by the way, is appropriate, because their songs have even
Speaker 2: inspired Beelen novelas and countless.
Speaker 4: Films, no less than forty movies, get that, ip Pigres.
Speaker 2: They are the biggest performers of Corrido's on planet Earth.
Speaker 2: Punto don't come at me with this like zoomer stuff
Speaker 2: like punto okay, And they helped transform the genre of
Speaker 2: a relic of yesterday to a vital piece of migrant culture.
Speaker 4: And from day one they've stuck up for the little
Speaker 4: guy and.
Speaker 1: It takes one to no one boo.
Speaker 2: Los Digres started from nath and their story itself is
Speaker 2: kind of like a Corrido MM.
Speaker 3: And that's why we're wearing matching suits to my listeners
Speaker 3: can't see. Also, this tub talk doesn't really fit me, y'all.
Speaker 2: You're really missing out because Joseph in a smarge tube
Speaker 2: top is a site to behold.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Lillianavoska.
Speaker 4: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is becoming an.
Speaker 5: Icon weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on
Speaker 5: how today's most famous.
Speaker 1: Latin V stars have shaped pop culture.
Speaker 4: And given the world some extra couple.
Speaker 1: Sit back and get comfortable.
Speaker 4: Because we are going in the only way we know
Speaker 4: how with Buena vis When Lisas.
Speaker 2: And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest
Speaker 2: achievements on our journey to find out what makes them
Speaker 2: still iconic. Before we wisk your way to Los Digre's
Speaker 2: hometown in Sinaloa, Mexico, let's meet the band. And while
Speaker 2: members have come and gone over the years, the original
Speaker 2: OG band was a group of four boys.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, this is going to be like an astrology
Speaker 3: lightning round. Hold up, I got to get the essential oils.
Speaker 1: Okay. Are your chakras all lined up like.
Speaker 4: They're waiting for example sale? All right? Hitting Okay, So.
Speaker 2: Let's start with the oldest head, nandas brother, which would
Speaker 2: be now he was going to become the head of
Speaker 2: the band, lead vocalist, the accordion player Avvy and his
Speaker 2: birthday is August seventh, nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 3: Oh whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, So this is a Leo
Speaker 3: Sun Aquarius moon. It's giving natural leader and a showman
Speaker 3: ambisious determine self assured, yet unconventional and eccentric. Big main
Speaker 3: character energy but with a strong sense of responsibility, especially
Speaker 3: towards children or mayhaps younger siblings.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: Next Okay, then there's Raoul Hernandez, a company vocalist and
Speaker 2: bajo sextel player. Now, he was born sometime in late March,
Speaker 2: but for some weird reason, his birthday isn't listed anywhere
Speaker 2: on the Internet, which, by the way, like send me
Speaker 2: the people that can scrub your birthday from the World
Speaker 2: Wide Web. But apparently there is a video of his
Speaker 2: seventieth birthday party that was posted on March twenty eighth.
Speaker 4: So you do the mathay, investigative journalism at its finest.
Speaker 4: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to go with the aris son. So
Speaker 3: that's a little headstrong, bold and direct.
Speaker 1: Interesting since he would end up going solo in the nineties.
Speaker 3: Oh, Spicy could be a Gemini moon wanting to try
Speaker 3: something new, or a Leo moon looking for some more
Speaker 3: creative glory, or maybe a Scorpio moon embracing change in
Speaker 3: confronting the self.
Speaker 4: But hey, we're just speculating. Next.
Speaker 2: Next, El Primo cousin Oscar the drummer, because of course,
Speaker 2: the cousin is always the drummer.
Speaker 4: I was going to ask you to be our drummer, I.
Speaker 1: Mean drummers, by the way, very important role in the band.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now he was born May twenty seventh, nineteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Okay, Gemini's son Libra Moon. Curious and sociable. He's a
Speaker 3: jack of all trades, but that sense of balance keeps
Speaker 3: him from being a master of none. All right, boo,
Speaker 3: bring us home?
Speaker 2: Okay, Last, but not Lesvana the baby brother ed Nan Ernandez,
Speaker 2: bass player and a companying vocalist, born nearly nine years
Speaker 2: after the eldes nandas brother on June twenty second, nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty eight.
Speaker 3: A cancer sun and virgo moon Ednancito lives in his
Speaker 3: feelings introverted to a fault and a bit critical, but
Speaker 3: he's a realist who supports his loved ones. I love
Speaker 3: a cancer okay.
Speaker 1: So how does that all add up?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 4: It doesn't. But it's family, okay.
Speaker 2: I mean, there has never been a truer statement told.
Speaker 2: It's so true, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't add up.
Speaker 2: We don't know how it works, right, And by the way,
Speaker 2: do I need to pay you a bonus for all
Speaker 2: those readings?
Speaker 3: I literally feel like I just did a face off
Speaker 3: on an astrological family feud, like I'm on a sky
Speaker 3: high vibration.
Speaker 4: Somebody gave me my weed pin.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, let's slow things down a little bit.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to take you on a little trip
Speaker 2: back in time across the border to a little town
Speaker 2: in Sinela, Mexico named Rosa Morada.
Speaker 4: Hmmsda. Sounds like a place for a retreat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not quite, because this is a town with
Speaker 2: a population in the hundreds, hundreds, hundreds.
Speaker 4: Like, Okay, we're gonna keep this retreat real short.
Speaker 1: Yes, but don't forget.
Speaker 2: We are going to take in the sites because Rosa
Speaker 2: Morada is marked by miles of ranches back dropped by gorgeous, rolling,
Speaker 2: distant hills.
Speaker 4: Okay, Julie Andrews are there?
Speaker 5: Sounds thank god, we're an audio format, right, Okay, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna let.
Speaker 1: Hernandez tell you about it. Here's what he said.
Speaker 2: In the ranch, there was nothing. You wake up in
Speaker 2: the morning and all you hear are the little birds, doves, sparrows, cardinals.
Speaker 2: I found it very curious when the birds started singing
Speaker 2: all at the same time. I thought it was marvelous.
Speaker 2: I used to imitate little birds. That's how you start
Speaker 2: to learn music through sounds. I understood it after I
Speaker 2: was taught the musical notes from the birds trills.
Speaker 3: Okay, now it's giving snow white, like did these birds
Speaker 3: help them get dressed?
Speaker 2: I think you're confusing that with Cinderella, and no, not
Speaker 2: quite and as idyllic as we're making ros somewhat out
Speaker 2: of sound. It's not to say that things were perfect.
Speaker 2: This is still rural farm country in Mexico, Like.
Speaker 4: There are more cows than there are people, farm country.
Speaker 2: Bingo, And when there's more cows than people, families end
Speaker 2: up using the kids as farm hands, the Ernandas boys.
Speaker 2: Dad used to tell them school comes first, but we
Speaker 2: also have to work. So after class, the boys went
Speaker 2: straight to the tomato fields. Then they'd come home.
Speaker 4: And play literally with what energy? I mean?
Speaker 1: I asked myself the same thing.
Speaker 2: But like kiddos literally run on fumes, like they don't
Speaker 2: need sleep, they don't need food, They just.
Speaker 1: Have kid energy.
Speaker 4: I love you, Santhia.
Speaker 3: Okay, So none of this boys worked and played hard,
Speaker 3: but they didn't just learn music from the birds like
Speaker 3: a Disney movie.
Speaker 4: No, they didn't.
Speaker 2: You can imagine these kids didn't have any money to
Speaker 2: buy instruments, so it was the cousins who came through.
Speaker 2: One cousin, Jose Angulo, bought Forrge his first guitar, and
Speaker 2: another cousin, Jove, taught him his first guitar chords.
Speaker 4: Damn. The only thing my cousins ever taught me was
Speaker 4: how to flip someone off.
Speaker 2: That's, by the way. The only thing my cousins ever
Speaker 2: taught me was how to chug a sema and not vomit.
Speaker 4: Ooh you no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: You don't want to chug a zema a zima wine clothes?
Speaker 4: You know I did. I used to. I used to
Speaker 4: witch all rangers.
Speaker 1: This is why you don't need brothers and sisters, because
Speaker 1: the cousins are up to no good. All right, but
Speaker 1: I will say what you were taught.
Speaker 2: Joseph, who does come in handy on a playground, It
Speaker 2: does anyway, with holdhands learning his way around the sixth string,
Speaker 2: the other Nanes brothers Raoulin or Nunn started to sing
Speaker 2: with him just for fun, and Joseph, you just might
Speaker 2: know what kind of music they were playing?
Speaker 4: Who me? Yes you.
Speaker 1: Let's flash back quickly to our very first Selena episode.
Speaker 1: The melodies and vocal sensibilities of the Hannel drew from
Speaker 1: generations of farmhands who enjoyed the songs of traveling musicians.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I see. All I needed was to know
Speaker 4: where I fit in the story.
Speaker 1: You're the wandering musician in my past life.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think that we played together in that way,
Speaker 1: like maybe I was your accompanist, you.
Speaker 4: Were one hundred percent and you followed me around with
Speaker 4: an accordion. Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, So basically you and I invented the Hannel music.
Speaker 4: You're welcome.
Speaker 1: You are welcome people.
Speaker 4: Okay, damn, I didn't know we were doing past life
Speaker 4: aggressions on this retreat.
Speaker 1: I had to book this way in advance.
Speaker 4: You literally do so much for us.
Speaker 1: Listen. I am a working mom. I can handle it all.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So no Mexican music or came from generations of traveling
Speaker 3: musicians singing songs that told stories AKA us and our pastors.
Speaker 2: And the Hano music, which we learned about from Selena
Speaker 2: is kind of just an evolution of Northeno music.
Speaker 3: Which means the poka, accordion and guitars are all there,
Speaker 3: but none of these boys are A long way from Texas.
Speaker 3: So they're not hearing American rock like Selena's dad did, No, sir, these.
Speaker 2: Kids are growing up hearing traditional music at Fiesta del Pueblo,
Speaker 2: like gatherings when like the whole town would gather up
Speaker 2: and turn up.
Speaker 4: Come on, Rosa Morada. I know they know how to
Speaker 4: turn up.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, Mexicanos, we know how to do that shit, right.
Speaker 5: I knew the whole town was getting the kids up
Speaker 5: on stage to play facts and music was just a
Speaker 5: part of life for the boys. It was their role
Speaker 5: within the community.
Speaker 3: Hey, when there's more cows than people, community is lital
Speaker 3: really all you have. But honestly, I'm loving it, Like
Speaker 3: maybe this is my trackwive.
Speaker 2: Season, I kind of love that for you. But as
Speaker 2: we know, the Ananda's brothers wouldn't stay in Rosamada forever,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately the thing that would pull them away, No,
Speaker 2: don't say it would be tragedy.
Speaker 4: This big tragedy always crashing my fiestablo.
Speaker 2: Well, actually that's literally what happened the Ananda. This boy's father,
Speaker 2: Don Eduardo, was something of a volunteer sheriff and Rosa
Speaker 2: Morad that was you know, the boonies and in Mexico,
Speaker 2: it means you don't have federal officers for better or
Speaker 2: for worse.
Speaker 1: Well, in this case, it was for worse.
Speaker 2: One night, Don Eduardo was checking in on a Fiesta
Speaker 2: del pueblo, just like the ones his kids would play
Speaker 2: music at, when he noticed an argument escalating between a
Speaker 2: few party goers.
Speaker 4: Uh oh, and Big Don, being the sheriff, had to
Speaker 4: go break it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he approaches them and without warning, guns are drawn,
Speaker 2: shots are fired, and Don Eduardo is hit in the
Speaker 2: spinal cort. He makes that alive, but he's immobilized and
Speaker 2: a full recovery requires an operation that costs ten thousand bassos,
Speaker 2: which might not sound like much, but remember this is
Speaker 2: a small family of farmers in Sineloa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so basically it's like a good jillion dollars.
Speaker 2: And with Don d Wado in his condition, Jorg who's
Speaker 2: still a minor, becomes head of the family, and as
Speaker 2: head of the family, he makes a decision. They're going
Speaker 2: to leave town and or money as musicians to save
Speaker 2: up enough money to pay for their dad's recovery. Wait, what, Joseph,
Speaker 2: can you imagine being twelve years old your father has
Speaker 2: just been shot in the spine, and now you have
Speaker 2: to leave home to make money to make sure.
Speaker 1: That he gets the care that he needs.
Speaker 2: I mean that is a massive amount of weight for anyone,
Speaker 2: let alone a tween.
Speaker 4: That is a start to a really good novella.
Speaker 2: Whatever we make of their sense of judgment. And remember
Speaker 2: all of them are under age at this point.
Speaker 4: I was about to say they're like kids.
Speaker 2: They're literally kids making very adult decisions. We know it
Speaker 2: was going to turn out for the better, but it
Speaker 2: would just take a while. And their first up on
Speaker 2: the road Mexicali, capital of Baja California, home to farmers
Speaker 2: and factory workers.
Speaker 4: We're knocking on doors of bars and restaurants, begging them
Speaker 4: to let us play. It's giving a little bit of
Speaker 4: Selena and her siblings and a little bit of Santana
Speaker 4: and his dad.
Speaker 1: Wait, with one obvious difference.
Speaker 2: Hello, there's no Abraham Pintania here calling the shots being
Speaker 2: all Abraham right. And it's not Carlos Santana getting dragged
Speaker 2: to the red light district by his dad.
Speaker 5: Jorge, Ernan, Raoul and cousin Oscar were in a new
Speaker 5: city all on their own as kids. I mean, these
Speaker 5: boys had never left Rossa, Murada before.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's almost a little home alone too, but without
Speaker 3: rich daddy's credit card. You know, these kids are out
Speaker 3: here fending for themselves, and little Jorgie has to fill
Speaker 3: their dad's shoes. But at least they like to play
Speaker 3: music together.
Speaker 2: Okay, right, and the Hernandez boys weren't unoscomemierdas. I mean,
Speaker 2: they were all serious about helping their dad. They hustled hard,
Speaker 2: and they love those cash tips, girl fan. They would
Speaker 2: save up that chip money and rush to the telegraph
Speaker 2: office every week to send it back to their family
Speaker 2: in Drosamorada.
Speaker 4: Soon enough they didn't have to bang on doors anymore.
Speaker 3: They had a rotation, a reputation, and a band name
Speaker 3: Lost Chiwawa.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a little long, kind of a mouthful.
Speaker 1: I think we could workshop it a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't quite hit like Los Thiga is. But
Speaker 4: the new name was.
Speaker 1: Honest, along with a very unique opportunity.
Speaker 2: One fateful day in nineteen sixty eight, the boys went
Speaker 2: to the telegraph office like us, and there they would.
Speaker 4: Meet my Stroleo Nides.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the kind of name that needs a drum roll?
Speaker 4: Literally, El Maestro was a local fixture in Mexicali.
Speaker 3: He was one of those guys that had the tea
Speaker 3: on every building on every block in town, who lived
Speaker 3: there and when, who got married at were church?
Speaker 4: Who cheated on who with who?
Speaker 1: And per his nickname.
Speaker 2: He was a music enthusiast who helped write a local
Speaker 2: column about Mexican classical music. And when he met the
Speaker 2: then Northaniels the Chihuahua, he offered them a record. You
Speaker 2: m no more like a once in a lifetime opportunity
Speaker 2: to travel to play a single then mile celebration show
Speaker 2: at Solidad Prison in sunny San Jose, California.
Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, no disrespect to Almeestro, but this is beyond.
Speaker 2: Thus I mean correct right like growing up in the eighties,
Speaker 2: I mean I am screaming stranger danger, like an old
Speaker 2: strange man wants to send you across the border to
Speaker 2: a prison to play music, and.
Speaker 4: They said yes, Like where is the kid's father? Oh way,
Speaker 4: just kim.
Speaker 2: It's definitely the first time in the story where I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, these are little boys.
Speaker 1: And I should add this show was for free. There
Speaker 1: was no payment.
Speaker 3: We should say this again for the listeners always read
Speaker 3: your contracts, Nikki Jam.
Speaker 1: We should also probably mention that in January of that year,
Speaker 1: Johnny Cash had played his two legendary shows at fulsome
Speaker 1: prison in California, So maybe this was inspired by.
Speaker 4: That Johnny Cash. It's the same difference.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just trying to give you context, okay, like
Speaker 2: you are learning all about history of rock music Northaniel,
Speaker 2: Like we're giving it all to you, okay. We are
Speaker 2: equal opportunity to share ers of musical knowledge. Either way,
Speaker 2: this was an opportunity to make themselves known in Gringo Landia.
Speaker 2: So they packed up and headed for California, and it
Speaker 2: was there at the border office where, of all people,
Speaker 2: a relentlessly chatty immigration officer gave the band their name.
Speaker 4: Hey, whatever gets you over that line?
Speaker 5: Nihak For real, though, this border officer looked them up
Speaker 5: and down and says, say, what's a few youngsters like
Speaker 5: you doing crossing the.
Speaker 1: Border playing music?
Speaker 4: Ugh?
Speaker 1: Oh just ugh ugh I know right, And then he
Speaker 1: like say, you know what you should call yourself? The
Speaker 1: Little Tigers of the North.
Speaker 4: Sure I won't have enough strive here.
Speaker 2: I mean I just need this banda stop, like, please
Speaker 2: stop talking to me, right, So the boys are there
Speaker 2: waiting for this rando to give them their papers and
Speaker 2: the green stamp, but the guy just keeps brainstorming their
Speaker 2: band name out loud. Again, no one asked him for
Speaker 2: his opinion, and when he realizes that these boys are
Speaker 2: eventually going to grow up to be men, he decides
Speaker 2: to drop the little from the Tigers.
Speaker 1: Thus los Figres del Norte.
Speaker 4: I love, But Sarah calls, whatever you want, just let
Speaker 4: us cross the border up in this.
Speaker 1: And listeners, what Joseph just said is a direct quote.
Speaker 4: We put up with so much. So the newly christened
Speaker 4: Norte finally get to San Jose and.
Speaker 1: They play a few shows there in anticipation of the
Speaker 1: big show at Sonadad Prison. Then the big day comes.
Speaker 1: The boys arrive and.
Speaker 4: No ones home.
Speaker 2: All the other musicians who had come to play are
Speaker 2: gone vanished, and the promoter who accompanied them across the
Speaker 2: border and helped organize the show is also nowhere to
Speaker 2: be found. These boys are all alone in San Jose.
Speaker 3: I think this is a recurring nightmare I used to have,
Speaker 3: Like I get my biggest client ever and then when
Speaker 3: I show up to the job, they're like, oh, I'm sorry, sweetie,
Speaker 3: you're here for who.
Speaker 1: Wait, by the way, this is so off topic, but
Speaker 1: who is your dream client?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: Cool? Is that Kate Planchet? I know, I just love
Speaker 4: her and her skin.
Speaker 3: I just want to stick my fingers in her mouth
Speaker 3: because she so her skin is so supple, and I
Speaker 3: just want to, like, I don't know, she's so gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Also, your style and aesthetic really vibes because she's so
Speaker 2: minimal and just naturally gorgeous, and you are all about
Speaker 2: really like minimal beautiful, like letting people's features and skin
Speaker 2: be the hero.
Speaker 1: Not the makeup.
Speaker 4: I want to look like her.
Speaker 2: Let's manifest it, like, let's let's make it happen. Okay, sorry, guys,
Speaker 2: back to Los Vegos. Okay, So to this day, Los
Speaker 2: Digos still don't actually know what happened. It's a genuine mystery.
Speaker 2: So iHeart, if you're listening and you want to make
Speaker 2: a little like mystery show about music, can we make.
Speaker 1: A podcast about what? Yes, let us hold that faithful
Speaker 1: day at the prison?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, yes, let us host it. We could
Speaker 4: totally solve this mystery.
Speaker 2: Me and you, I mean I am basically FBI like,
Speaker 2: don't cross me, don't try to hide shit from me,
Speaker 2: like I will find you, I will track you, I
Speaker 2: will use all the computer programs like I have my ways.
Speaker 4: I love that. So Los Digaas found themselves more than
Speaker 4: a thousand miles away from their hometown of Rossamorada, with
Speaker 4: nothing to their name but their clothes, instruments, and savings.
Speaker 4: So like, how could anything get worse?
Speaker 1: I have an idea. How about their passports go missing?
Speaker 4: Shut your button? This is like the se about losing
Speaker 4: your purse.
Speaker 2: Ah okay, So here's what's happening. You are an immigrant,
Speaker 2: a stranger in a stranger land, and in the blink
Speaker 2: of an eye, your one legal lifeline is missing.
Speaker 4: So the boys suddenly find themselves seen Babels La Mia
Speaker 4: right around the corner, like cut down.
Speaker 2: I have to say, I know this happened a long
Speaker 2: time ago, but this feeling of like not having your
Speaker 2: paper as you brought bell as your shit in order,
Speaker 2: like very present today for so many people. Like yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not a feeling that goes away, Like by the way,
Speaker 2: I'm a US citizen and like if I misplaced my
Speaker 2: passport or if I am going to cross into Mexico,
Speaker 2: like I've crossed in you know, through d Wana, because
Speaker 2: it's close to here.
Speaker 1: It's I still am like.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, doesn't it feel so scary.
Speaker 1: I'm like, are they gonna let me back? I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm going to go to jail.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I'm just gonna be stuck and
Speaker 3: I'm going to jail randomly, Like I don't know why
Speaker 3: I would go to jail.
Speaker 4: I just don't have a passport.
Speaker 2: Because you just feel guilty, Like you just feel like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, what if they don't let me, Like
Speaker 2: when I cross over, like at an airport, or at
Speaker 2: any any checkpoint, any immigration checkpoint, Like when I see immigration,
Speaker 2: I'm scared, Like I don't feel I can be holding
Speaker 2: my passport and I'm still nervous.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, we're programmed.
Speaker 2: This is the sad part, right, So imagine this at
Speaker 2: like ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, trauma.
Speaker 2: But fortunately for Losgees, an immigrant family took pity on
Speaker 2: them and offered them lodging in their home. So the
Speaker 2: boys went back to playing bars and restaurants, A.
Speaker 4: Dollar here, a quartered there, whatever they could manage for
Speaker 4: Poppy's surgery. They were on borrow time, and they stayed
Speaker 4: on their grind.
Speaker 2: Jote worked as a janitor at San Jose State University
Speaker 2: and took English classes, while the rest of the boys
Speaker 2: worked as gardeners. But as fate would have it, yet
Speaker 2: another mysterious stranger would show up, and this one would
Speaker 2: eventually turn things around for Los Theiites.
Speaker 1: The same year they were ghosted at solad that prison.
Speaker 3: Wait ghosted at sold a Prism. That's to relea my
Speaker 3: debut country on them.
Speaker 2: Losgas de Norte, who are now between the ages of
Speaker 2: ten and fifteen, find themselves singing on a local San
Speaker 2: Jose rai And.
Speaker 3: As we've learned this season, radio in the fifties and
Speaker 3: sixties is legit magic. Putting your voice on the airwaves
Speaker 3: is basically like putting your intentions out in the universe.
Speaker 2: Just supercharged, and the airwaves carried Los thegis music to
Speaker 2: the ears of someone very unexpected, an expat from Manchester,
Speaker 2: England who did not speak a word of Spanish but
Speaker 2: was fascinated by the Northeno sound of Los Figras.
Speaker 1: His name was Artwalker, but Los Figos like to call
Speaker 1: him Arturo Kaminante.
Speaker 3: Oh cute, okay, so Arturo walks up to them and says, hey, kids,
Speaker 3: I've got a record company and I'm going to up
Speaker 3: your game.
Speaker 5: And even though this sounds like an Amber alert way
Speaker 5: to happen, it does turn out that Arthudle's got the guds.
Speaker 3: I think of all the episodes we've done, this is
Speaker 3: the one that you should absolutely make sure Santi does
Speaker 3: not listen to.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just finished watching the Nickelodeon documentary. Like
Speaker 2: I can tell you this, my child is not going
Speaker 2: anywhere near the entertainment industry, okay, and my child is
Speaker 2: never going to think that they need the help of
Speaker 2: a strange British Man to make it in any bus
Speaker 2: but definitely not the music business. All right, Now, here's
Speaker 2: the calasting question for you, because this is my favorite
Speaker 2: part of our fake production company. Who should we cast
Speaker 2: to play the strange British man in the Los Fgos biopic.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say, honestly, Hugh Grant, because he is
Speaker 3: just the quintessential British guy that we all need in
Speaker 3: our lives.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So Hugh Grant delivers on his promise and he buys
Speaker 2: Los Figas all new instruments, gets them studio time and Bam.
Speaker 1: They record their first.
Speaker 4: Album MMMA like ra mora misicos, which can we talk
Speaker 4: about the title for the love of My children like
Speaker 4: they were little boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were singing the gorridles that they knew from home.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna get into the history of goridos next episode,
Speaker 2: because it's obviously an ex loastive genre and music right
Speaker 2: now and we want to get into the details.
Speaker 1: But again next episode. For now, let's just go back
Speaker 1: to the boys.
Speaker 2: Let's just say that the boy's sound was fresh, but
Speaker 2: still unpolished, and success did not come quickly.
Speaker 4: So the boy's life in Drossa, Morada was go to school,
Speaker 4: pick tomatoes, play music. Now in San Jose it looked
Speaker 4: pretty much the same, only Jorgia had to clean toilets
Speaker 4: and learn English and sometimes they sing in the studio.
Speaker 1: These boys would record four consecutive albums under the wing
Speaker 1: of Arturo Caminante, but as I entered the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: they weren't getting much traction and they started to think
Speaker 1: about calling it quits.
Speaker 3: But when Sennor Caminante heard this, he pulled the fire
Speaker 3: alarm and reorganized the band. All the boys switched instruments, except.
Speaker 1: Then they added a saxophone player.
Speaker 2: Named lube Oibo, who had a distinctly Northeniel playing style
Speaker 2: that gave the thiga sound a little extra heat.
Speaker 4: By this point, Jorgio was now a grown up and
Speaker 4: officially the band leader, so art Walker took him to
Speaker 4: US Angeles to meet with a promising songwriter named Angel Gonzalez.
Speaker 2: And this is the songwriter who would show Jorgia the
Speaker 2: tune that would propel Los Figris to heights.
Speaker 1: They've never even dreamed of.
Speaker 4: Wait, can I do it?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 4: Boo, that's next time on becoming an Icon.
Speaker 2: On the next Becoming an Icon, Contrabando Ytracion finally launches
Speaker 2: Los Figras career along with the Narco Corridon. Becoming an
Speaker 2: Icon is presented by Sonoro and Iheart's Michael Gurda podcast network.
Speaker 2: Listen to Becoming an Icon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast,
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