Monday, June 8, 2009

Los Lobos con Antonio Banderas - Canción Del Mariachi


Despite what the person who posted this video says, I don't think Antonio Banderas is actually playing any of the guitar that we hear. But that's okay, he's an actor playing a guitarist, so he's just doing his job. I was looking for some stuff by Los Lobos and came across this, which is apparently a video crafted for the movie Desperado. So we see also see Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, et al.

Los Lobos started out as high school buddies playing rock, then became serious about playing traditional Mexican (and other Latino) music before picking up electric instruments again and gradually becoming world-famous. When they write and perform songs such as this, people who don't know better think of it as some sort of local color, but they were and are serious about it.

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