Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano

A traditionalist and a visionary, Nati Cano has both mirrored and shaped the history of mariachi music. He and Los Camperos, the group he founded and directs, have been a fixture in the Los Angeles area and a driving force in the mariachi tradition in North America for more than 40 years. His longtime association with Linda Ronstadt, backing her up in live performances and on her milestone Canciones de Mi Padre album, helped catapult mariachi music to unprecedented national prominence. In this collection of newly issued material, Cano and Los Camperos perform some of mariachi's most beloved songs with the vibrancy and intensity that distinguish them as one of the finest mariachi bands in the world. The highly respected Natividad "Nati" Cano is a pioneer and leader of the Mariachi Renaissance in the United States and Mexico. He is credited for taking the mariachi form from the streets to prestigious concert halls throughout the United States. From the White House where he performed before President and Mrs. Clinton to Guadalajara's Teatro de Degollado where they performed before President and Mrs. Zedillo to Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall - from Oslo, Norway to San Francisco's Orpheum Theater, Nati Cano's dream of taking this musical folk tradition to the mainstream is being realized.

Born in the state of Jalisco, Mexico in 1933 to a family of day laborers, Nati Cano is the director and founder of the Los Angeles based Mariachi Los Camperos known for their versatility and amazing number of double threat singer/instrumentalists. One would be hard pressed to find another mariachi anywhere that celebrates such talent.

In the city where the mariachi form is venerated, Guadalajara's prestigious daily, El Informador, recently proclaimed: "the quality of their voices won the audience's heart." Nati Cano is the visionary behind such artistic excellence, which is at once brilliant in its exuberant, soaring sounds and impeccably authentic in its discipline and nuance of musical technique and form.

In 1950, the classically trained Cano traveled north to Mexicali to join Mariachi Chapala. The youngest musician by at least a decade, he stayed with the company for seven years.

In 1957, Cano came to the United States and eventually joined the Million Dollar Theater' Mariachi Aguila. In 1961 he became their musical director and proposed that the name of the group be changed to Los Camperos. In 1969, after years of traveling throughout the Country they became permanently based at La Fonda Restaurant. Los Camperos has since become synonymous with the best mariachi's in the world.

He was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts-National Heritage Fellowship and in Mexico, the coveted Sylvestre Vargas Award for artistic excellence. His ensemble recently appeared on the PBS television special Americanos, filmed at the Kennedy Center.

This year marks Los Camperos' forty first anniversary.

Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano

Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano was formed 41 years ago. Its director, Natividad Cano, came to Los Angeles in 1957. For four years he worked as a musician, later becoming the musical arranger for Mariachi Chapala. In 1961, Cano became the musical director of Mariachi Chapala and changed their name to Mariachi Los Camperos. The ensemble has since grown in prominence and gained international recognition.

Mariachi Los Camperos is noted for demanding musical arrangements that highlight the individual skills and voices of the players. The ensemble employs the finest musicians from Mexico and the United States and has performed for audiences throughout the United States and Canada.

Mariachi Los Camperos was one of four mariachis that collaborated on Linda Ronstadt's album, Canciones de Mi Padre. In 1988-89, the group worked on the promotion of the album, that included national television appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and the Grammy Awards Show. They also appear on Linda Ronstadt's Mas Canciones.

The ensemble has recorded five albums including: Puro Mariachi (Indigo Records, 1961); North of the Border (RCA/Carino Records, 1965); El Super Mariachi, Los Camperos (Latin International, 1968); Valses de Amor (La Fonda Records, 1973); Canciones de Siempre (PolyGram Latino, 1993); Sounds of Mariachi (Delfin Records, 1996) and Fiesta Navidad (Delfin Records, 1997).

Mariachi Los Camperos continues to raise the mariachi tradition to new heights, with an ever growing following of Latino and non-Latino listeners and admires. Their contribution to the musical life of Los Angeles and the entire southwest will remain for generations to come.

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