Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug ...

A Mexican music icon is using a typically male genre to sing of women imprisoned for killing their abusers while defending themselves and to highlight the more complicated aspects of gender-based ...

Fuerza Regida frontman Jesus Ortiz Paz on his vision for global stardom, '111Xpantia,' and why he’s leaving controversy ...

Bands in Mexico are self-censoring their ballads about the drug underworld out of fear of being blocked from touring the US, ...

"The voices of women deprived of their physical freedom also matter," the singer-songwriter says ... She does so through the corrido, a traditional Mexican genre often associated with glorifying ...

in the State of Mexico — a city where the corrido singer has performed four or five times before, always drawing a big crowd. But this time, concert organizers gave him a warning: “They said ...

Country-music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican-American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s, ...

It tells the story of 10 such women but in a first, Quintana does it through “corridos,” a typically male-dominated and controversial Mexican music genre that’s soared into the spotlight in ...