 ON WITH THE SONIDERO!
Sonideros are commonly described as the club DJs of Mexico. Towards the end of the 1950s, they began to liven up neighbourhood dances, block parties, and popular salons in Mexico City. Substituting the traditional trios, groups, and big bands, they performed at quinceanera birthdays, baptisms, founder's days, weddings, and anniversaries of all kinds. At the beginning they used sound equipment modified to make the music more powerful-and to not explode when the ...
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