La rebeldía mariachi (The Rebels of Mariachi)
Dec 11, 2019
Growing up as the daughter of a mariachi, Mireya Ramos learned early on that mariachi was a male-dominated world. But after moving to New York City, Mireya decided to challenge tradition and create an all-female mariachi group, opening doors for other musicians and redefining the genre.
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► 00:00:30Rojo either odd o en el cuello lasso is a bow she also put on her black suit with a white embroidery to play violin all over the city with her all woman mariachi group nosotras famous La Primera Banda the Mariachi and River York for mother sólo para mujeres I principio no Aramis movie popularise the government's and fiestas de quinceañera
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► 00:01:32one day as they were driving around they thought what if we entered that MTV show Pimp My Ride he seemed most own video explicar no Los problemas de El Carro y por qué Lo necesita vamos para nuestro trabajo the windshield wipers don't turn off and let's turn off the car video is still online the three of them in front of their Grand Marquis with flowers in their hair playing mariachi songs joking around
► 00:02:01round and begging for a little love for their car battle Guam the buscamos last instruction as the come on Darrell video in his empty damos the kid show janek's is Tia
► 00:02:20it was 2009 and the show Pimp My Ride had been canceled two years earlier nosotras seguimos usando a Grand Marquis Durante varios años it was tough going at first but soon media's luck would start to change her band floored the toloache would one day make it to the world stage at the Latin Grammys and forever changed the history of her musical genre
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► 00:03:23Mariachi is a traditional music that dates back to the 1800s it started in Jalisco in the northern part of Mexico Joel Gracie and Puerto Rico me Maverick is Dominicana Mi Padre is Mexicano L cetera who the Mexico partes de Su Cultura Joe Cressy escuchando a me Papa Canton
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► 00:03:55Mariachis are distinctive because of their chatter oh suits originally Cowboy outfits that are decorated with silver buttons and clasps up and down the legs they include a huge sombrero and all of the players wear matching colored suits mink and that's a valid concern is Como cuckoo cuckoo Paloma it Ambien make evoke a Contigo
► 00:04:21traditionally mariachi music is passed down from father to son generation to generation Mariachis are almost always present at Big Life events like weddings and birthdays you can also see them wandering the streets of Mexico playing for tips
► 00:04:39La música Vania de las Barras availa sociedad de Clase de Vaca traditional mint las mujeres no Aaron party the last band has the mariachi
► 00:04:55her family had a restaurant in San Juan and her dad would play music and sing along going from table to table me Papa Lincoln Tavola cancion Caminos dmytryk on porque él está Michoacan a todos listen can't Ava escuchar amoeba cantando a circumcision
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► 00:05:51when media saw the crowds respond to her dad singing she was so moved and emotional she wanted to be a part of it all
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► 00:06:25BJ I grew up and held on to that dream of singing and playing music in 1999 when she was 17 years old she moved to New York City
► 00:06:36if we a VV dot s Sunset Park in Brooklyn Amarillo muy Mexicano Viacom media Mi Prima her aunt and her cousin went to church every Sunday and sang in the choir El Gordo media a lolly their Del Coro in a saline de comunidad Forester has on Yo Tambien and real core oh
► 00:07:02media also played the violin a church services one day after Mass an older man came up to her and said he'd seen her perform he asked her if she wanted to join his mariachi group Joan Anka avocado Mariachi bit of a Nieves a tradition ilocano Sia muy bien she told the man yes
► 00:07:25she was so excited to learn all the traditional songs on her violin she also figured it would be a fun adventure además a de una oportunidad de perak said the narrow column musica pero también era mucho trabajo Mariachis have hundreds and hundreds of songs in their repertoire and they have to know them all by heart because they play whatever the crowd asks for
► 00:07:54since many aren't written down it took weeks and weeks of practice for media to learn them and don't says map but indeed all the la música de Oviedo La verdad joint real grupos in severe nada
► 00:08:12media eventually got all the songs down and she played with that group for years she got better and better and started inviting other musicians to play with them to gather new java moss amass restaurantes Mexicanos amass celebration is Mexicanas traditionalist Como fiesta de quinceañera symmetry Munoz es muy Lindo porque La Gente
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► 00:08:47media loved the music but she was the only woman in the band at times she felt like she was the only woman Mariachi in all of New York and the band wouldn't let her forget it there are these soon I'll name the last band has the Mariachi's Sunday Hombres see escuchas Les lettres de las condiciones de Das cuenta de get told us son is Greta's they still a perspective delambre
► 00:09:18sometimes it felt like they didn't really want her around she worked hard to learn all of the songs but it just didn't seem to be enough Jewel Katie a trabajar commands mujeres Korea crear una comunidad it is fruit are mientras él trabaja vacanam Tava
► 00:09:37so media started to think there's got to be something I can do about this animal mental job in say no tengo que Pasar por esto shijou Foreman group or solo de mujeres que esto no puede I do that area near nose I said I'll go Bonito he hasn't illness coma the Centre nosotras
► 00:10:06and that's exactly what she did she started looking for other women who wanted to be a mariachi just like her Boris debrecen found a group or the Mariachi formado sólo para mujeres the first woman media asked to join her all woman mariachi group was Shay fuel jolkona see Ash a a travesty
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► 00:11:05the vihuela is a type of guitar that's high pitched and has five or six double strings s only instrument oh typical alas band has the Mariachi Nosotros tenemos El sonido muy kuniko porque Shea apricot Todo lo que sería the guitarra and David whele Asia as a muchas cosas que tradition and mentor
► 00:11:34no se hacen
► 00:11:39in addition to the vihuela Mariachis traditionally have a violin
► 00:11:44trumpets
► 00:11:47harp and a guitar on which is a very large bass guitar with a rounded back make damn I love this guy we'll get console for umm Tiempo famous solamente those a jackal David whele EG O'Connell violin por que no podía moss and control our author musica
► 00:12:13a mariachi everyone sings sometimes one person will be the designated singer for a specific song if their voice fits better or if they have an affinity for it but normally everyone sings and harmonizes in my idea to add a principal for the FEC persuaded a las mujeres de aprender de tocar second our Mariachi connoisseur
► 00:12:42Sarah's no era algo muy popular en Este Tiempo the second woman that media found was Veronica Valerio Veronica is UNA really nice te Mexicana de Vera Cruz AJ can't Ava EJ Kenosha and Repertory of the Mariachi the trio practice together and started looking for restaurants that would let them sing last chicas is Davin a custom rod has a la la
► 00:13:12Sica no aprender cells causes the video where they fizzle and then you are less last canciones Joyce creepy our last party tourism on oh yeah see Aegislash body and they are party to resist means sheet music media spent hours and hours writing the music by hand they could have bought the sheet music online but they wanted to make their own arrangements for the group
► 00:13:42Anissa momento maybe cuenta de que Nosotros que somos escuchando last canciones seen pensar en Las letras as media was writing out the charts by hand she realized the lyrics to the mariachi songs she'd been singing since she was a girl or pretty misogynist cuando form a on Grupo de mujeres medic cuenta de cantar SS concerns not Aeneas and Dido
► 00:14:12just the last concern his son muy my chest has so they decided to write their own songs in the Mariachi tradition but from the perspective of a woman nosotras is the most Nuestra propia version de la cancion similar video otra vez de Juan Gabriel a cantar is a cancion de esta la perspectiva de la mujer Cambio de Todo Joe Mason
► 00:14:42Tipo De Rosa cuando Le Conte crayon Grupo de mujeres fuertes Creo que El resultado for muy bonito it was still tough going though for years they struggled to make money I'll principio a group oh no no Starvin not a very narrow nosotras tenía mosquito car con otras personas pero por quá
► 00:15:12welcome L potential tell concepto way creciendo they were the only all woman Mariachi in New York City they call themselves flood the toloache after a flower in Mexico that has long been used for love potions nosotras means mass is the most mysterious track has the Mariachi Los ticos Ramos but a tener una look Hunico they added fun twists to the traditional Mariachi outfits or track
► 00:15:42yes they embroidered flowers into them adding splashes of color and tassels they made them more feminine and unique but when they drove around looking for gigs the restaurants weren't as excited as they were muchas veces knows the heroine can oh Cassie Nobody Knows the Harbour to car when they did score a gig they still faced machismo at every step a veces one note
► 00:16:12vamoose autocar Los Hombres assuming k no severe most connector Westeros instrumentals okay no Sevilla - Como para para Todo para to car it was demoralizing what's worse sometimes at the end of the performance the manager would refuse to pay them or would only pay a fraction of the going rate una vez en un restaurante a maybe Aaron uncheck it
► 00:16:42Jason fondos error mil dólares despite everything the group had a lot of fun playing together and slowly things started to change in 2012 after a performance in a bar a writer from The Daily News interviewed them it was the first time they were recognized for all of their work
► 00:17:07who are muy emocionante SC articulate and being Nazario lapuerta para estar en otras Mario's the communication around that same time they scored a residency at Rockwood Music Hall an alternative music venue it meant a steady income for them they had a standing monthly show and they were able to experiment and play new songs
► 00:17:38are they Master Mariachi nosotras talk of amongst consumers the pop rock salsa Bachata array gay gracias is to nasty ol a passion for lawful Son de estos tipos de música over the years women from all over the world joined them and learned the mariachi songs the band was always changing with new members coming and going
► 00:18:06the result was always unique because of all the different influences
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► 00:18:27in 2015 they wrote and recorded their first album they named it after themselves float the whe NSA Tiempo Los invitados en hacer de Nuestra Primera Hira we're gonna Grand experiencia nosotras aprendemos mucho experiment Thomas Conway was hideous creature most novice canciones in huevos unidos
► 00:18:57went on tour across Europe and the us as the opening act for The Black Keys singer Dan our backs new band the arcs
► 00:19:06nosotras aprendemos muchísimo the AL Dan Auerbach assumed he knew De La Musica
► 00:19:16and that same year media and the band were nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Ranchero album
► 00:19:24if we're real maintain the illusion until Cedric oh no she does porn Westrom musica no animals per of whele motivation can SE te vamos two years later in 2017 they were nominated again for best Ranchero Mariachi album for their new album Las Carreras Linda's this time they won becoming the first woman to ever win the award
► 00:19:55I see the moon Camino Largo it official pero con éxito a momentous felices but even now as an award-winning band that has traveled the world playing Major venues they still faced machismo people complain that they were pants instead of traditional skirts and say they shouldn't be included in the Mariachi section of the Latin Grammys
► 00:20:19a La comunidad Mariachi a veces habla Mal de Nosotros a dicen que nós somos un Grupo de Mariachi they were dad but they're not letting that slow them down they recently released their third album which includes unique collaborations and new fusions of Mariachi with other types of music it includes a song with R&B singer Miguel who just happens to be media's cousin
► 00:20:48I get so lost me ebola hermano De La Villa De Miguel
► 00:20:56Asia's toes come Taliban juntas and radio and Mexico Peru Miguel yo no naka noseeums
► 00:21:06Big L and Malaya met through their industry connections about a year ago and rekindled their family ties together they cover the song below the hey bye Miguel and made it into an R&B Bachata Mariachis Fusion
► 00:21:22mistress Abuelo's no podía wrong star a G1 go grab a mostly consumed they suffer tuna demente Asia's a VMware to ressentiment a continual La tradición the Mariachi gauges and pasaron he connected me than you ever call me familiar Fuller experiencia incredibly
► 00:21:49there are other songs on the album that directly answer their critics like the one titled in destructively escriva most La cancion in destructively was no staff versus in destructively celebra uh-oh this are mujeres in the song they described a woman as strong and beautiful but from the perspective of a woman telling her friend that she can do the impossible because she's indestructible
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► 00:22:48in their stroke T media Ramos is the founder of Flora the toloache this story was produced by Sarah Barrett a Canadian journalist based in Mexico City we'd love to know what you thought of this episode
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