"It's never going to be out of style, being heartbroken."
That's how Felix Contreras and Ana Sayre describe regional Mexican music known as sierreno, which has been around for more than a century and is now so big a deal in Latin America that the hosts of the Alt.Latino podcast wanted to figure out why it's such a big deal right now.
What they found, in part two of a three-part series, is that regional Mexican music has its roots in more than a century of music from different regions of Mexico, and that its popularity has exploded in the last few years as it's become such a "social and musical phenomenon" that the hosts wanted to try and figure out why it's such a big deal right now.
What they found, in part one and part two of the series, is that regional Mexican music has its roots in more than a century of music from different regions of Mexico, and that its popularity has exploded in the last few years as it's become such a big deal in Latin America because it's such a "social and musical phenomenon," as Ana Sayre puts it, that it's become such a way of life that people in different parts of Mexico Read the Entire Article
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