At the 2025 Chicano Music Hall of Fame ceremony and Noche Tradicional Concert on July 24, four local legends were inducted to the 23rd Class of Nuestra Musica de Chicano Music Hall of Fame. The ...
It’s music that has defined a movement. Chicano music broadly encompasses various musical styles created by Mexican Americans, often reflecting themes of cultural identity, resistance, and the Chicano ...
BARRIO LOGANBARRIO LOGAN — In the shadow of the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, on the same patch of ground where a community of poor families and immigrants was cleaved by the government in the name of ...
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From the soulful R&B-fused parties of 1950s Chicano youth to today’s global Latin music takeover, the cultural thread remains unbroken. Historians, artists, and musicians continue to preserve and ...
Community historian Ruben Molina's discovery of 1950s rhythm & blues records with handwritten tags inspired "The Dreamy Side," a book documenting overlooked Chicano youth culture.
A new PBS documentary is celebrating the life of Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez, a transcendent musician and activist who rose to prominence during the Chicano civil rights movement. “Singing Our Way to ...
Born out of a small café in Little Tokyo and driven by Chicano rock, rhythm and blues, Afro-Cuban rhythms, rancheras, salsa and soul, for the past three decades the Los Angeles-based ensemble Quetzal ...
Like many ideas, it started over a round of drinks. Musicians Shorty Delgado, James Jones and Joshua Josué were discussing where they stood in the world of music. Their sounds weren’t traditionally ...
Agustín Lira used music and theater for over 60 years to fight social injustice. Lira co-founded El Teatro Campesino in 1965 during the Delano Grape Strike and influenced the Chicano Movement. He ...