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    Chicano rock, also called chicano fusion, is rock music performed by Mexican American (Chicano) groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture...
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    Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip hop that embodies aspects of the Mexican American or Chicano culture. The first recognized Chicano rap album was the...
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    solo. Chicano Batman was formed in 2008. NPR's Alt.Latino referred to the band's music as one of the show's and listener's favorites of 2014. Chicano Batman...
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  • with early rock and roll success Ritchie Valens. Later, Los Lobos and Chicano rock gained in popularity during the 1970s and 1980s, and musician Selena...
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    Chicano English, or Mexican-American English, is a dialect of American English spoken primarily by Mexican Americans (sometimes known as Chicanos), particularly...
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    Chicano naming practices formed out of the cultural pride that was established in the Chicano Movement. This motivated some Chicanos to adopt Indigenous...
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  • El Chicano is a 2018 American superhero film directed by Ben Hernandez Bray, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Carnahan. It stars Raúl Castillo, Aimee...
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  • country music, even giving rise to unique US styles of music, including salsa, New Mexico, Tejano, and Western. Fusion genres such as Chicano rock, Nuyorican...
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    and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Marin's trademark is his characters' strong Chicano accents. Marin was born on July 13, 1946, in South Los Angeles, California...
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    25. Cabral's entertainment career started in the Chicano Rap music scene as a member of the chicano rap group "Charlie Row Campo". He created several...
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  • Guitarist, founding member of the Chicano rock band, Los Lobos Gerardo Ortiz (born 1989) - Regional Mexican music singer Hanna Nicole (born 1985) - Singer-songwriter...
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  • and roll, which would eventually lead to the success of Latin rock and Chicano rock within the US, began to rise in the Southwest; with rock and roll...
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    Ritchie Valens (category Chicano rock musicians)
    singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after his...
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    traditional Mexican song in tribute. Guerrero is known as the father of Chicano music. He recorded and wrote many songs in all sorts of genres. He recorded...
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  • disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community. Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and...
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    directed by and starring Edward James Olmos. The opening scenes depict the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, showing a group of young Chicanos wearing zoot suits...
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    Chicano poetry is a subgenre of Chicano literature that stems from the cultural consciousness developed in the Chicano Movement. Chicano poetry has its...
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    rights, labor struggles, Chicano identity, and police brutality have been common subjects of their music. Through their music, Chicano musicians have also...
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    degree in Chicano studies in May 2013. Her thesis was "Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM Careers". Longoria guest-starred in an episode...
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  • February 11, 2022. "Steve Salas, co-founder of the pioneering Eastside Chicano rock band Tierra, dies at 69". Los Angeles Times. February 16, 2022. Retrieved...
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    events in music that took place in the year 1975. 1975 in British music 1975 in Norwegian music 1975 in country music 1975 in heavy metal music 1975 in...
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  • to discover she is half-white. The Tejano community itself has Mexican, Chicano, Mexican American, Spanish, Hispano, American and/or Indigenous ancestry...
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  • Mexican-American community. It follows the intertwining lives of three Chicano relatives from 1972 to 1984. They start out as members of a street gang...
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    August 17, 2019. Villafranca, David (July 27, 2019). "Chicano star Cuco: Hispanics' presence in music industry is form of activism". EFE. Archived from the...
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  • Reggaeton (redirect from Fussion Music)
    US: /ˌrɛɡeɪˈtoʊn, ˌreɪɡ-/) is a modern style of popular and electronic music that originated in Panama during the late 1980s, and which rose to prominence...
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    Tirado (Part 1)" – El Chicano "Voodoo Chile" – The Jimi Hendrix Experience "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" – Joe South "Wand'rin' Star" – Lee Marvin "We Gotta...
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    and starred in the controversial crime film American Me in 1992, and also starred in My Family/Mi Familia, a multi-generational story of a Chicano family...
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  • Estelle Brown Myrna Smith El Chicano remade "Brown Eyed Girl" for their 1972 album Celebration. Kapp Records had invited music journalist Don Buday to produce...
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    events in music that took place in the year 1972. 1972 in British music 1972 in Norwegian music 1972 in country music 1972 in heavy metal music 1972 in...
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    Tiny Desk Concerts is a video series of live concerts hosted by NPR Music at the desk of former All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen in Washington, D...
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