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Los Lobos
One of the most successful and most enduring Latino bands, Los Lobos found
unexpected mainstream fame in the late 1980s when their upbeat dance version of
the old classic “La Bamba” featured in a movie of the same name; a biopic of the
Mexican roots rocker Ritchie Valens, who died in 1959. Formed in LA in 1974 by a
group of friends of Mexican origin and fronted by singer and
multi-instrumentationalist David Hidalgo, they mixed rock'n'roll with Cajun
zydeco dance music. Their self-financed debut album, 1978’s Just Another Band
from East L.A., impressed enough people to lead to rav...
