Fotos de alfredo rios el komander biography
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Drugs, drugs and rock 'n' roll
It’s 2 a.m. when El Komander, the bestselling balladeer of cartel life and death, takes the stage at Club El Rodeo in Mexicali, Mexico, a maquiladora boomtown just across the border from sleepy Calexico, Calif. Buzz-cut, goateed and dressed in an all-black costume of oversize tinted shades, crisp parachute pants and polished knee and elbow guards, he opens his set with his tuba- and accordion-driven hit, “The Devil’s Advocate”:
Born in Sinaloa
Where killing is learned
I bear the blood of combat
And orders to execute
The verse draws raucous cheers from the capacity-plus crowd, which I’m told is thick with members of the Sinaloa Cartel, the most powerful drug trafficking syndicate in the world. I’m still scanning the scene for signs of this when Komander points a black-gloved index finger at the VIP mezzanine and sends a shout-out to his hometown of Culiacan, the Pacific coastal city where the cartel is based. A dozen VIPs, a couple wearing s
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The return of the altered corridos, the musical movement that made Mexico dance (and tremble)
More than a decade has passed since a group of bands from the Mexican state of Sinaloa turned hats and jackets — studded with glitter and sequins — into a fashionable look on scen. From there, they told stories of violence, drug trafficking and excess, which were applauded by the public but disapproved of by the authorities. The songs ended up converging into a new musical subgenre and, eventually, into a cultural movement that exalted consumption: the so-called “altered corrido” movement, the Spanish word corrido referring to narrative ballads.
That musical boom — which reflected an eccentric lifestyle — began to deflate over the years. But a couple of weeks ago, the musician Alfredo Ríos — known as El Komander (“the commander”) — stirred up social media with the announcement that the altered corridos were returning. The most nostalgic followers echoed this sentiment.
In his pos