Mexican rock

Natalia Lafourcade
Julieta Venegas
Maná
Cafe Tacuba




Natalia Lafourcade

Natalia Lafourcade - Amarte Duele

Natalia Lafourcade (born Natalia Lafourcade Silva on 26 February 1984 in Mexico City,Mexico) is a Latim Grammy-winning Mexican pop-rock singer and songwriter. Her band's name is Natalia y La Forquetina.
Since she was very young, Natalia had a great interest in music, partly because her parents were musicians. At three years old she began to sing and at four, she realized that she wanted to be an artist.
She attended instituto anglo Español, a Catholic middle school. In her childhood and adolescence she studied painting, flute, theater, music, acting, piano, guitar, saxophone and singing. When she was 10, Natalia sang in a Mariachi group...(MORE)

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Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas - Me Voy

Julieta Venegas, born in Long Beach on November 24, 1970, is a Mexican singer, intrumentalist, and songwriter who performs Spanish-language rock and pop music. Venegas, who grew up in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, began studying music at the age of eight and went on to join several bands, including Tijuana No!, before starting a career on her own. In addition to singing and writing her own songs, she plays numerous instruments including acoustic guitar, accordion, and keyboard. She has won two Latin Grammys and one Grammy.
She fluently speaks both English and Spanish and has a twin sister, Yvonne, who is a photographer...(MORE)

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Maná

MANA - BENDITA

Mana is a traditional term that refers to a concept among the speakers of oceanic languages, including melanesians, polynesians, and Micronesians. It is an impersonal force or quality that resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects and that instills in the appreciative observer a sense of respect or wonder. In ant anthropological discourse, mana as a generalized concept has attained a significant amount of interest; often understood as a precursor to formal religion. It has commonly been interpreted as "the stuff of which magic is formed", as well as the substance of which souls are made.
Modern fantasy fiction, computer and role-playing games, have adopted mana as a term for magic points—an expendable resource out of which magic users form their magical spells.
Mana should not be confused with the Biblical manna (also spelled mana or mannah) which, according to the Bible (Exodus, chapter 16), provided sustenance for the Israelites...(MORE)

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Cafe Tacuba

Cafe Tacvba - El Baile y el Salon

Café Tacuba (often spelled Café Tacvba) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning musical group from Naucalpan, Mexico. They were founded in 1989, and since then have had the same musical lineup:

Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega: (vocals, guitar)
Emmanuel "Meme" del Real Díaz: (keyboards, acoustic guitar, piano, programming, vocals, melodion)
José Alfredo "Joselo" Rangel Arroyo: (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals)
Enrique 'Quique' Rangel Arroyo: (bass guitar, electric upright bass, vocals)

Mexican folk music player Alejandro Flores is considered the 5th tacubo, as he has played the violin in almost every Café Tacuba concert since 1994. Since the Cuatro Caminos World Tour, Luis "El Children" Ledezma has played the drums in every concert but is not considered an official member of the band.

Previously known as "Alicia Ya No Vive Aquí" (a tribute to Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), the band took its final name from a coffee shop (el Café de Tacuba) located in downtown Mexico City, which opened in 1912 and had its heyday in the 1940's and 1950's, and was representative of the Pachuco scene from the time, something the band would certainly acknowledge as an influence. The Café de Tacuba is still in operation on Tacuba street, in Mexico City's Historic Center.
In their first shows (prior to the release of their first album), people would scream "¡Pinche Juan!" ("Fucking John!") to Rubén because that's the name of one of the band's first underground hits, so he kept the name for the release of the first album. Two years later he got bored and changed it to "Cosme" (a disused name in Spanish) for the release of "Re". Since then, he has changed his name for every album and world tour.
Formerly graphic design...(more)

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