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Alexander Acha

Raúl Alexander Acha Alemán is a Latin Grammy winning Mexican singer-songwriter.

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Clemente Aguirre

Clemente Aguirre was a Mexican composer and music instructor in Guadalajara, Jalisco, during the 19th century. His father died when he was a child, leaving his family in poverty. Nonetheless, when he was 11, he was accepted to study music with Professor Jesús González Rubio, composer of the well-known Jarabe tapatío.

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Sonia Amelio

Sonia Amelio is a Mexican dancer, musician, choreographer, and actress. She is notable for being a castanet player and arranger.

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Ernesto Berúmen

Ernesto Berúmen was a Mexican best known for his skill as a pianist. Berumen studied piano in Leipzig and Vienna, settling in New York City in 1917, months before the United States entered World War I. In New York he was known for the annual concerts he gave at the city's Aeolian Hall. He is cited as an influential teacher of Cuban pianist Conchita Espinosa.

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Ricardo Castro

Ricardo Castro Herrera was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz.

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Chico Che

Francisco José Hernández Mandujano, better known as Chico Che, was a musician, singer, songwriter, and performer from Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.

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Jay de la Cueva

Jay de la Cueva is a Mexican model, actor, producer, singer, bassist, drummer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. He currently fronts Moderatto. His first musical experience was as a kid with the rock band Microchips, in which he was the bass player. He later joined rock bands Victimas del Dr. Cerebro and Titán. He was also a co-founder of the band Molotov. In 1995, he left Molotov to join the band Fobia.

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Manuel de Elías

Manuel Jorge de Elías is a Mexican composer and conductor. He initially studied under his father, composer Alfonso de Elías, and then studied under Marie and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He was the founder of the Music Institute at the University of Veracruz, which was established in 1975. In 1988, he founded the Jalisco Philarmonic Orchestra. He directed the Las Rosas Conservatory in Morelian in 1990-91. In 1992 he was awarded the National Prize for Arts and Sciences of Mexico.

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Rubén Fuentes

Rubén Fuentes is a Mexican classical violinist and composer, who is best known for his contributions to mariachi music. He is also known as the great-grandfather of conservative American political commentator Nick Fuentes.

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Alex González (musician)

Alejandro González Trujillo is an American musician of Cuban and Colombian extraction. He is a member, drummer and songwriter for the Mexican band Maná and metal band De La Tierra. He is nicknamed "El Animal" and has sung lead vocals on several songs, such as the single "Me Vale". Alex discovered his passion for playing the drums at the young age of 5 when he caught the attention of a kindergarten teacher who gave him a red sparkle drumkit. He took to the instrument very seriously and found himself a teacher shortly thereafter.

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Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla

Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla was a Spanish-Mexican composer of the Renaissance period.

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Saúl Hernández

Saúl Alfonso Hernández Estrada, is a Mexican musician, writer, poet, songwriter and the lead singer of Jaguares and Caifanes, two prominent Mexican rock en español bands.

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Ana Lara

Ana Lara is a Mexican composer.

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Álex Lora

José Alejandro Lora Serna, better known by his stage name Álex Lora, is a Mexican musician and composer. He has been the frontman of the Mexican rock band El Tri for over 50 years, since October 12 of 1968 when he founded among Carlos Hauptvogel and Guillermo Berea the Three souls in my mind band, but because of differences with Carlos, Alex decided to create a new band called El Tri, as the followers of Three souls in my mind used to call them. In 2006, Hispanic music website batanga.com characterized Lora as "legendary", noting that among his honors and awards he has been named a "Distinguished Pueblan Citizen" in his home city and has been given the keys to the city in Miami, as well as having a day and a statue in Guadalajara.

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Miguel Martínez Domínguez

Miguel Martínez Domínguez was a Mexican musician, composer and arranger of mariachi, pioneer in the use of trumpet in this genre.

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Quirino Mendoza y Cortés

Quirino Mendoza y Cortés was a Mexican composer of the famous traditional songs "Cielito Lindo" and "Jesusita en Chihuahua". He was born in Santiago Tulyehualco, Xochimilco, Mexico City in 1862.

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Melesio Morales

Melesio Morales was a Mexican composer.

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Fher Olvera

José Fernando Emilio "Fher" Olvera Sierra is a Mexican rock musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the secondary guitarist, composer, and lead singer for the Mexican rock band Maná, the most successful Latin American band of all time with over 40 million albums sold worldwide.

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Alex Otaola

Alex Otaola is a rock and jazz musician from the Mexican capital, Mexico City. During his career he has been a member of numerous bands such as Santa Sabina, La Barranca San Pascualito Rey and Cuca. In 2007 he started a solo career with the audiovisual CD/DVD 'Fractales'. In 2010 he released a live cd of music for Dziga Vertov's 'Hombre de la Cámara'. 2013 saw the release of the 'iNFiNiTO' app with Mexico's top jazz singer Iraida Noriega.

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Cenobio Paniagua

Cenobio Paniagua y Vásques was a Mexican composer.

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Plankton Man

Plankton Man is a Mexican musician and former founding member of the Nortec Collective. His music is inspired by traditional Mexican music such as the brass banda and the accordion accents of norteño music, as well as jazz and electronic music elements.

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Silvestre Vargas

Silvestre Vargas was a Mexican mariachi musician. In 1928, he became the leader of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, an ensemble from Jalisco begun by his father in 1898. In the 1930s the group moved to Mexico City, and Vargas, along with Rubén Fuentes, became pivotal composers in the evolution of the genre. Silvestre and the Mariachi Vargas made dozens of recordings and starred in many films through the 1960s. He died in 1985, and his gravesite became a popular site for pilgrimages on the date of his death. In 1997, a museum dedicated to Silvestre was established in Jalisco.

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Wakal

Wakal is a Mexican electronic music project by Jorge Govea. He is a Mexican musician currently living and working in Paris, France, who was a founding member of the independent record label, Discos Konfort. His first album revealed the way he mixed field recording, and popular melodies with dancefloor / electro / rock rhythms.