Lucero, Linda Ronstadt and Federico RonstadtI came upon this great ranchera song by Lucero:
Lucero at ALMA AWARDS 2008 singing "Los Laureles"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp1jCarw51M-------
and was wondering who that woman was she greeted during the performance. (I think sitting next to her is singer Ana Gabriel - Tú, Solo tú:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T832H5Rr7WY).
When googling for the song it turns out that she is Linda Ronstadt who had brought the ranchero/Mariachi songs to the attention of a US public with her album"Canciones de mi padre". She is very impressive and current singers copy her style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EIhXzm3SGs---------
Linda Ronstadt — "Volver, Volver" — Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCraI-W0kFoLucero, Volver, volver - Noa Noa, Festival de Viña 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y1nLolWF9Y--------
Y Andale Linda Ronstadt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc4LBeANZ8Y-La hija del mariachi - andale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuidZCX0Eeo----------
In an interview I found she says something about her first musical memories being Mexican and German.
When she gave a performance in German Rockpalast there is nothing German left, she is introduced as the US "Country-Rock Ikone". During her one-hour show one song is in Spanish.
https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sen ... --100.html------
We have a biography by Linda Ronstadt's grandfather who was the son of a German immigrant whose descendants played a major role in the development of this border region that wasn't US American yet. -
https://www.amazon.de/Borderman-Memoirs ... 0816523363Borderman: Memoirs of Federico Jose Maria Ronstadt
Born in Sonora in 1868 to a Mexican mother and a German father, Federico Ronstadt was the quintessential borderman. He came to Arizona Territory as a young man to learn a trade and eventually became an American citizen; but with many relatives on both sides of the border, Federico was equally at home in Mexico and in his adopted country.
Writing proudly of his Mexican and American heritages, Ronstadt offers readers an extraordinary portrait of the Arizona-Mexico borderlands during the late nineteenth century. His memoirs provide a richness of detail and insight unmatched by traditional histories, relating such scenarios as the hardships of Yaqui hardrock miners working under primitive conditions, the travails of pearl divers in the Gulf of California, and the insurrection of Francisco Serna in 1875 Sonora. They also depict the simple activities of childhood, with its schooling and musical training, its games and mischief. Ronstadt relates his apprenticeship to a wagon- and carriage-maker in Tucson, recalling labor relations in the shop, the establishment of his own business, and the joys and anguish of his personal life. He tells of how he drew on talents nurtured in childhood to become a musician and bandleader, playing weekly concerts with Club Filarmónica Tucsonense for nine years—musical talents that were eventually passed on to his children, his grandchildren (including Linda), and great-grandchildren.
Through Ronstadt's memories, we are better able to understand the sense of independence and self-reliance found today among many lifelong residents of Sonora and Baja California—people isolated from major supply sources and centers of power—and to appreciate a different view of Tucson's past. Enhanced by 22 historical photos, Borderman is a treasure trove of historical source material that will enlighten all readers interested in borderlands history.
https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA ... 7E8791261aIn Borderman Edward Ronstadt has skillfully edited the memoirs of his father, Federico Jose Maria ("Fred") Ronstadt (1868-1954), written between 1944 and 1954. Intended for his family, and probably without any thought of being published, Fred Ronstadt's memoirs vividly describe everyday life in the late nineteenth century in territorial southern Arizona, the northern Mexican state of Sonora and the territory of Baja California. Even though he was active in Tucson commerce, society, and musical affairs for many years after 1900, his memoirs only deal with the first forty years of his life.
Fred Ronstadt's father, German-born Frederick Augustus Ronstadt, was a naturalized Mexican citizen who served as a colonel of the National Guard of the state of Sonora and as military prefect of various districts in Sonora. Fred's mother, Margarita Redondo, a descendent of a long-established land-owning family in the Altar Valley in Sonora, married Frederick Ronstadt in 1867 in the town of Altar. Fred spent much of the first years of his life leading a peripatetic existence, moving with his family to the many places his father's jobs took them.
Two excellent maps detail the towns, villages, and settlements in Baja California described in Ronstadt's narrative, several of which were then centers of pearl fishing along the Gulf of California and in which Ronstadt visited, or worked and lived. Ronstadt's descriptions of Lower California highlight its stark beauty and its vast emptiness and echo historian Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis of the frontier and frontier life. The maps also show the geographical interrelationship between the northern part of the Mexican state of Sonora and territorial southern Arizona (which was, until the Gadsen Purchase of 1854, part of Sonora). Fred Ronstadt's crossing of the border in 1882 to work in Tucson was part of a logical migration northward
Many saw Ronstadt as the quintessential American female pop singer — and they had a hard time reconciling the fact that she was Mexican American, Ronstadt said.
"I come from the Sonora desert, which exists on both sides of the border, and I've always felt very deeply affiliated with Mexican American culture," said Ronstadt, who was born in Tucson, Arizona. "Mexican music was a tremendous influence on my singing style.
"One of the first few interviews I did with rock publications like Rolling Stone, they just were sort of dismissive about it," she said.
Ronstadt remembers growing up in Tucson at a time when children would be punished for speaking Spanish publicly at school or on the playground. But that didn't discourage her from learning her father's Mexican canciones, or songs.
