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45-674: Latin rock should not be confused with "rock music from Latin America" or rock en español . It's also closely related to the Latin alternative scene (which combines Latin elements with alternative rock , pop , electronic music , indie or hip hop among others) a term often used to refer the same phenomenon. Rock and roll music of the 1950s originated from a variety of sources including rhythm and blues, blues, gospel, country, bluegrass, western swing, and Tin Pan Alley pop music. Also, there

90-544: A Latin sound with other genres like Caribbean ska , reggae , and soca ; or Andalusian rock , a flamenco-influenced style that emerged in Spain. Spanish-speaking rock music began in the late-1950s, through listening to American rock artists in the United States at the time. The song "El relojito" by Gloria Ríos released in 1956 is often considered the blueprint of rock en español . In 1958, Ritchie Valens covered

135-458: A band that was similar to Menudo, had a song named "Rock Solido" which was released during 1983. The final amalgamation into a coherent international scene was helped by the introduction of MTV Latin America in 1993, where the first video shown, " We are sudamerican rockers " by Chilean band Los Prisioneros , reflected its aims to create a Latin American scene. In the late 1990s, MTV created

180-531: A great part of the English media started to refer to any kind of music featuring vocals in Spanish as "Latin music". This term achieved a great success in some Latin American countries, where some of their regional press started to use the new terminology. This phenomenon spread the use of the "Latin rock" term with a quite different meaning from the original one. This led to controversy and confusion among many in

225-416: A rock and roll, glam and rhythm & blues scene along with other Spanish acts Burning or La Orquesta Mondragón . The most prominent punk bands appeared along the 1980s with La Polla Records , Siniestro Total or Los Violadores . Subgenres derived from punk like New Wave and Post punk were also important during the 1980s. La Movida Madrileña was an important movement of these styles among others. In

270-529: Is actually composed of four musical pieces – "Liwayway", "El Anillo de Dalaga de Marmol", "Pepita" and Jocelynang Baliuag". Maria Josefa Lara Tiongson aka "Josefa T. Mateo" (July 10, 1885-October 26, 1974) (89)is the daughter of José Tiongson and Maria de Lara, the wife of Pedro Rais Mateo (son of Domingo Rais Mateo and Saturnina Mercado) brother of Maria de la Paz Mercado Rais Mateo, with children Pacita Tiongson Mateo and Vicente R. Mateo. The Filipino composer, conductor and scholar Felipe M. de León Jr., wrote that

315-635: Is an example of Santana's latin rock version, being originally composed by famous Latin jazz and mambo musician Tito Puente . From the late 1960s on, concurrently with the success of Santana, there was a growing interest in Latin-American folk music and dancing as well as a worldwide cultural boom for Latin-American literature and its colourful, sometimes surrealist and magic realist storytelling, which sustained an interest in Latin music in general, though not always in Latin rock music as such. There

360-626: The Andalusian rock scene, a new style which emerged in Spain that combined prog rock with flamenco. The first hard rock acts appeared in the early 1970s with bands like Pappo's Blues . Also, a new hard rock movement influenced by prog, blues and punk called Spanish Rock urbano lead the harder scene of the late 1970s with bands like Leño . But in these days appeared some repression of rock music in Mexico. The government forced artists, labels and radio stations to go "underground" as they associated

405-683: The British Invasion , the Hispanophone world adapted new styles like Beat music, rhythm and blues, psychedelia, soul, folk-rock and pop music. The Beatles and other British beat groups and American rock bands were greatly influenced by American musicians The influences of beat music and psychedelic pop were noticeable in some acts such as Los Brincos , El Kinto  [ es ] , Los Gatos or The Speakers , while other successful bands featured mostly English and few Spanish vocals like Los Bravos or Los Shakers . Success outside of

450-705: The Caribbean and Continental Latin America elements influenced the scene. Nevertheless, Reggae or Ska are not considered as part of the Latin Rock. On the other hand, disco also influenced Latin rock during the 1970s. After the birth of punk in late 1970s, the genre also was influenced by many other music styles. Some British punk and new wave acts like the Clash included elements that could be considered as "latin" in " Sandinista! " (1980). Other bands such as Bow Wow Wow , Haircut One Hundred, Kid Creole and

495-580: The Chicano rock scene. Kundiman Kundiman is a genre of traditional Filipino love songs . The lyrics of the kundiman are written in Tagalog . The melody is characterized by a smooth, flowing and gentle rhythm with dramatic intervals. Kundiman was the traditional means of serenade in the Philippines. The kundiman emerged as an art song at the end of the 19th century and by

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540-470: The "Father of the Kundiman Art Song", briefly explains in his scholarly work The Development of Music in the Philippines that the reason this Tagalog song is called kundiman is because the first stanza of this song begins thus: In 1872, the illustrious Franciscan Tagalist and poet, Joaquín de Coria wrote Nueva Gramática Tagalog Teorica-Práctica which, besides treating grammar, also enumerates

585-797: The Champs released " Tequila ", a song that incorporates clear Latin sounds and was composed by the band's chicano saxophonist Danny Flores ). During the 1960s, there were more examples of rock artists like Thee Midniters , Question Mark & the Mysterians , Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs or Sir Douglas Quintet that included Latin rhythms on their compositions. Also Chicano rock became popular in California ; although not all of these can be considered early Latin rock artists since many of them lacked

630-525: The Coconuts, Modern Romance, Special AKA and Blue Rondo a la Turk did as well. In Spain, Los Coyotes , Los Mestizos and Radio Futura , that had emerged as new wave and post-punk acts, finally got influenced by Latin music at mid 1980s. Spain would go on to produce some Latin acts like Macaco , Amparanoia and Jarabe de Palo . In France, bands like Les Negresses Vertes played a fusion of rock with World music including Latin elements. But Manu Chao

675-687: The Internet consolidated the listeners. However, some rock en español artists did become internationally popular with the help of a promotional campaign from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s called " Rock en tu idioma " (" Rock in your language "). Some specific rock-based styles influenced by folkloric rhythms have also developed in these regions. Some of the more prominent styles are Latin rock (a fusion of rock music with Latin American and Caribbean folkloric sounds developed in Latino communities); Latin alternative , an alternative rock scene that blended

720-665: The Kundiman of the Revolution. The melody of "Jocelynang Baliwag" is undeniably older than the title and the lyrics. The music sheet introduced by Molina describes the melody of "Jocelynang Baliwag" as "musica del legítimo kundiman procedente del Campo insurrecto" ('authentic kundiman music in the revolutionary camps'). In 1905, Isabelo de los Reyes wrote the kundiman and other written pieces including " Ang Singsing ng Dalagang Marmol " dedicated to Josefa 'Pepita' Tiongson y Lara from Baliwag, Bulacan, whom he courted. "Jocelynang Baliuag"

765-426: The Latin folk influences. In some Latin American countries, Latin rock started to develop as well. In Peru , Colombia , Argentina , but specially Brazil where Tropicália appeared in the mid-1960s with the first releases of Os Mutantes , Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso from 1967 to 1970, a music movement that merged rock music with bossa nova , psychedelia and other Latin elements, and this can be regarded as

810-734: The Latino Award in the MTV Video Music Awards and Premios MTV Latinoamérica in 2002, awards that recognize the talented bands and achievements of the genre. However, MTV Latin America was criticized for focusing primarily on rock bands from Argentina and Mexico, with the occasional band from Chile or Colombia . For example, bands on MTV Latino that received very regular airplay were Soda Stereo , Los Fabulosos Cadillacs , Los Amigos Invisibles , Mano Negra , Café Tacuba , Los Tres , Aterciopelados , Maldita Vecindad , Babasónicos , Los Rodríguez and Héroes del Silencio . On

855-660: The Mexican folk song " La Bamba ", popularizing Spanish-language rock music throughout Latin America. That year, Daniel Flores composed " Tequila ", and the Champs ' production of the song, which reached nº1 in Billboard pop charts. The new sound immediately caught the attention of the middle and upper class. The first rock bands in Latin America were created in the late 1950s with Los Llopis and Los Teen Tops achieving some success covering American rock classics during

900-661: The Philippines band, Maria Cafra fused elements of blues, rock, Latin and kundiman to mold their distinct sound. The genre arrived in Europe with the Spaniards Barrabás , Dutch Massada and African-British Osibisa . Meanwhile, reggae music achieved a great success around the world. This rhythm originated in Jamaica during the 1960s, evolving from ska , rocksteady and bluebeat. Since its origins along with rock music and rhythm and blues with Jamaican folk rhythms,

945-523: The Propaganda movement and the Philippine national hero, has consecrated the kundiman in his social novel Noli Me Tangere . Not only this but he himself wrote a kundiman which is not of the elegiac type because its rhythm sounds the threat, the reproach and the revindication of the rights of the race. In 1941, National Artist for Music, Antonio Molina (composer) introduced Jocelynang Baliwag as

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990-514: The band Santana towards the end of the sixties, he would gather a shifting group of musicians from mixed Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic backgrounds; the band would become one of the more popular acts of the 1970s in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe and brought together elements of rock, blues and jazz with Latin percussion and harmonics (as evidenced, for example, on Santana (1969), Abraxas (1970) and Santana III (1971)). The band would consistently alternate lyrics in Spanish and English; they were arguably

1035-593: The characteristics of Tagalog language , and discusses Tagalog poetry. In this book, Coria also listed the names of the most important songs of the Tagalogs . They are: The Spanish scholar V.M. Avella described the kundiman in his 1874 work Manual de la Conversación Familiar Español-Tagalog as the " canción indígena " (native song) of the Tagalogs and characterized its melody as "something pathetic but not without some pleasant feeling." In his 1883 book Cuentos Filipinos , Don José Montero y Vidal recorded in Spanish

1080-437: The development of the music video in the 1990s. Rock en español borrows heavily from rock and roll music and traditional and popular music of Spanish-speaking countries such as cumbia , ranchera , rumba , and tango . In its 50-year history, it has evolved from having a cult-like following to being a more well established music genre. In Los Angeles , an underground scene has developed and continues to flourish that supports

1125-465: The early 1960s. The Spanish scene received some influences of non-English-speaking countries with the Yé-yé style as could be seen with Raphael . In the early 1960s, those styles of commercial rock music were nicknamed Nueva ola (New wave) in some South American countries to refer the bands that adopted the American and European styles. After the popularization of The Beatles and the world success of

1170-908: The early 1970s popularizing the genre in the USA and the rest of the world. The Latin American counterpart of Latin rock bands could be seen in Peru with bands like Telegraph Avenue, Traffic Sound , the Mad's, El Polen and specially Black Sugar melting rock with jazz music, Peruvian folk, progressive rock and Latin elements; in Colombia highlighted Siglo Cero, Génesis and La Columna de Fuego; in Argentina Arco Iris ; and in Chile , Los Jaivas ; in Brazil , artist such as Jorge Ben developed samba rock . In

1215-419: The early 20th century, its musical structure was formalised by Filipino composers such as Francisco Santiago and Nicanor Abelardo ; they sought poetry for their lyrics, blending verse and music in equal parts. The formalized art song structure of the kundiman is characterized by moderate 3/4 time, with the piece beginning in a minor key and ending in the parallel major. Dr. Francisco Santiago (1889–1947),

1260-468: The kundiman "is the love song par excellence of the Filipinos, the plaintive song which goes deepest into their hearts, song which brings them untold emotions." Endowed with such power, the kundiman naturally came to serve as a vehicle for veiled patriotism in times of colonial oppression, in which the undying love for a woman symbolized the love of country and desire for freedom. José Rizal, leader of

1305-408: The kundiman as "a pure Tagalog song which is usually very sentimental, so sentimental that if one should listen to it carefully watching the tenor of words and the way the voice is conducted to express the real meaning of the verses, he cannot but be conquered by a feeling of pity even so far as to shed tears." Dr. Francisco Santiago, the "Father of Filipino Musical Nationalism", declared in 1931 that

1350-594: The late 1990s, the rising population of "Latinos" in the US (term popularized since the 1960s due to the incorrect and confusing use of the term " Spanish " and the unpopular term " Hispanic ") led the music industry to create the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences as a sub-department of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Also, in 2000 the Latin Grammy Awards were created. Thus,

1395-464: The local rock en español acts. Top bands from the LA REE scene include Los Invisibles of José L. Garza, Motita, Pastilla, Los Amigos Invisibles, Maria Fatal, Rascuache, Voz de Mano, Cabula, Satélite, Las 15 letras, Verdadera FE, Aaron Andreu and Los Olvidados. Record labels that have supported US based REE include Aztlan records, El Mero Mero Records, and Mofo Records. Many of them have been associated to

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1440-523: The main root of the genre. In 1969, after the release of the debut album by Santana , the term "Latin rock" appeared in the US and other parts of the world. It was an attempt to describe the band's music style as a fusion of Latin American and Caribbean rhythms, soul , jazz , funk , blues , psychedelia and rhythm and blues based on rock music . Following Santana , other American bands appeared like Malo , Ocho, Mandrill , El Chicano , Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive, War , Sapo and Azteca in

1485-451: The mid-1980s, a promotional campaign called "Rock en tu idioma" (Rock in your language) started helping to internationalize some bands. Soda Stereo is largely credited as the first Spanish-language rock band to gain widespread popularity across Latin America . However, there was equal transnational success in the mid to late 1980s from Virus , Radio Futura , Enanitos Verdes , Caifanes , Hombres G , or Los Prisioneros among others during

1530-621: The most important artists of the 1970s rock en español scene, Influenced by the new trends of the 60's, psychedelic acts like Los Dug Dug's , Pescado Rabioso (heavy psych)— or La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata (although rarely they featured Spanish vocals during these years); blues acts like Manal and progressive rock bands like Invisible , Sui Generis (folk prog), Témpano  [ es ] , Los Jaivas (Andean rock), Vox Dei (which style would turn harder sounding) or Triana (heavily influenced by flamenco) and Crack (more British prog-rock influenced) appeared. Triana were pioneers of

1575-452: The most successful crossover Latin/Anglo rock band to date, and were important in spreading interest in Latin percussion and drumming around the world. Although he is not a rock en español musician, Carlos Santana's background is that of a traditional Latin musician who has fused rock guitar (and jazz and salsa rhythms) with classic Latin American songs and a sizeable body of compositions by himself and his band. Their hit song " Oye Como Va "

1620-623: The music with the breakdown of societal standards. The main pushing edge that created tension with the government was due to the Avándaro Rock Festival in 1971. Also the dictatorship established in Argentina in 1976 make some Argentine artist leave the country for greener pastures in Europe, mostly Spain. They joined the Spanish rock scene and sometimes Hispano-Argentine bands Tequila get formed and achieved success. Tequila joined

1665-418: The native and Spanish-speaking scene proved difficult to attain though, and the few hits these bands achieved worldwide were sung in English, as Miguel Ríos and Los Bravos did for example. Los Saicos were one of the very oldest proto-punk bands in the world. By mid-decade the Mexican (later US citizen) Carlos Santana moved north to California and soon joined the burgeoning San Francisco rock scene. Forming

1710-730: The other hand, some hard rock bands like La Renga , Cuca or Extremoduro achieved success. During the success of Alternative rock in the 1990s, many bands performed alt rock and Latin Alternative (style that combined alt rock with ska, reggae and Latin folkloric elements) like Robi Draco Rosa , Caifanes , Café Tacuba , and La Ley initiated a new stage of Latin rock by broadening its international appeal. Since then, successful bands and musicians include Juanes , Libido , Maná , Jaguares , Caramelos de Cianuro , Aterciopelados , Bersuit Vergarabat , Jorge Drexler and Los Tres among others. The new bands were able to be successful through

1755-458: The population. Rock en espa%C3%B1ol Rock en español ( Spanish for 'Spanish-language rock') is a term used to refer to any kind of rock music featuring Spanish vocals. Compared to English-speaking bands, very few acts reached worldwide success or between Spanish-speaking countries due to a lack of promotion. Despite rock en español ' s origins in the late 1950s, many rock acts achieved at best nationwide fame until

1800-659: The sad lyrics of what he describes as a popular kundiman of the Tagalogs : The Spanish writer and historian Wenceslao E. Retana recorded in 1888 the lyrics of a popular kundiman in Batangas. The melancholic lyrics in the Tagalog original as recorded in Retana's book El Indio Batangueño reads: In 1916, Dr. Juan V. Pagaspas, a doctor of philosophy from Indiana University and a much beloved educator in Tanauan, Batangas described

1845-457: The same time period. Though mainly a teen-pop band, Puerto Rican band Menudo at times also dabbled into Rock en Espanol during this decade; examples of their rock music work include their albums "Quiero Ser" (alternatively named "Rock Chiquillo" in some markets), "A Todo Rock" and "Hijos del Rock" as well as songs such as "Quiero Rock", "Rock en la TV", "Mi Banda Toca Rock", " Sube a mi Motora " and "Jovenes". Similarly, Los Chicos de Puerto Rico

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1890-496: Was a noticeable Latin influence in 1970s jazz (e.g. Herbie Hancock , Return to Forever ) and some acts like Malo , Sapo, El Chicano were performing Latin Rock during the same decade. However, styles like blues, acid rock, hard rock, and prog rock would be very influential around the next decade. Almendra , led by Luis Alberto Spinetta , was one of the most important prog bands of the late 1960s and later, Spinetta would become one of

1935-901: Was interested in Brazilian music. The genre consolidated during the 1990s in Latin America. Many bands appeared such as Rio Roma (Mexico), Maná (Mexico), Caifanes (Mexico), Café Tacuba (Mexico), Aterciopelados (Colombia), Paralamas do Sucesso (Brazil), Bersuit Vergarabat (Argentina), Karamelo Santo (Argentina), Maldita Vecindad (Mexico), Carmina Burana (Argentina), Los Fabulosos Cadillacs (Argentina), Soda Stereo (Argentina), Los Prisioneros (Chile), Los Tres (Chile), Octavia (Bolivia), Karnak (Brazil), Chancho en Piedra (Chile), Julieta Venegas (Mexico), Arena Hash (Peru) and Los Rabanes (Panama), that incorporated Latin folk rhythms on their compositions (especially Caifanes and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs ). Ecuadorian rock incorporated recently indigenous musical influences. During

1980-516: Was some influence of the traditional Latin music. Caribbean rhythms like calypso were used in surf music ; and there were some rock and roll songs based on cha-cha-chá or mambo . Latin rock was born in the United States during the late 1950s, though the term was not yet created. In 1958 an adaptation of a Mexican folk song called " La Bamba " was recorded by the Chicano rock artist Ritchie Valens . That same year, instrumental rock band

2025-519: Was the major success of Latin rock in France with the band Mano Negra (also as a solo artist) with a style that would be known later as Latin alternative . A mix of rock, with Latin elements, Arabic music , punk , rap , flamenco , ska and reggae . In the US during this period musicians like Los Lobos , El Vez , Sheila E., David Hidalgo , David Byrne (ex-leader of Talking Heads ), and Cesar Rosas fused Latin music and rock music. David Byrne

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