Chalino told the stories of men who overcame impossible poverty to survive and develop power, as valientes, and about the reality of dying from the violence in a corrupt system.īecause of the content and the stories told in the music, this style of song became known as a narcocorrido. While he rarely mentioned the drug trade directly in his music, listeners still knew the connection and the meaning of the music. He wrote stories that resonated with his own background and experiences in Sinaloa. There was a massive demand for his music. Once released, Chalino quickly established a reputation for writing corridos on commission and his music career took off. Historically, this music was composed to tell the stories of heroes from the Mexican Revolution or infamous bandits. This experience inspired Chalino to describe these stories through a type of Sinaloan song called a corrido. In the early 1980s, Chalino was sentenced to serve eight months in La Mesa jail for a variety of petty crimes.ĭuring his time in jail, Chalino practiced music and exchanged stories with other Sinaloans. Once in California, he worked numerous jobs, including a stint as a “coyote” (someone who smuggles illegal aliens into the US). After the incident, he left for the United States to stay with an aunt in Los Angeles. At the age of 15, Chalino shot and killed one of the several men who had raped his sister four years earlier. His family was impoverished and lived in an isolated village. (Photo/YouTube)Ĭhalino Sanchez was born in the Sinaloa state in Mexico in 1962. Chalino Sanchez is one of the first and most famous musicians to sing narcocorridos.
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