https://youtu.be/mWwT9id02gk The rich culture and traditions of Mariachi music has always been apart of the Armado family. The Mexican music brings this family operated mariachi group in Phoenix together on a local and international level. Carmen Valencia is a reporter for Arizona Sonora News, a service from the School of Journalism with…
Ruben Moreno has been playing mariachi music since the spring of 1974. The genre fell into his lap after a knee injury playing football at the University of Arizona sent him to the hospital. While recovering the Tucson native ran into his former Little League coach whose son was looking for a trumpet player to…
Mariachi music is hot. Rap, rock, country and pop musicians are all integrating mariachi into their sound. Betty Duarte-Matwick, vocalist, guitarronera and one of the founding members of the all female group Mariachi Pasion, believes that it takes more than music skills to play mariachi. “Music is the language of the gods both male and…
