“I do know that Chicago has a large Mexican population and the history behind it. And so I hope that we can have family together, you know, because that’s what it is.” LatinoVoicesWTTW
The first-generation Mexican-American Luz Elena Mendoza says the foundation of her band Y La Bambas sound comes from a variety of traditional Mexican musical styles, but the lyrics come from her ever-evolving feminist sensibility.
“When I write, I have my childhood in me. The type of music that informed me as a Mexican American is like corridos, nortenos, grupero — music from el campo. A lot of the music I grew up listening to — which, they were not all men, but most of it. Carlos y Jose, Ramon Ayala,” Mendoza said. “A lot of that music is super misogynistic, but it was their way of knowing how to connect.
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