Los Tigres del Norte

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Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California.
Background information
Origin	San Jose, California
Genres	Pacific Norteño, Norteño with Sax
Years active	1965 (1965)–present
Labels	Discos Fama Golondrina EMI POPS MGM Music Profono Internacional Poster Melody Musivisa FonoVisa Universal Gamma Gran Vía Musical De Ediciones Discos DLB
Members	Jorge Hernández 1968–present Hernán Hernández 1968–present Eduardo Hernández 1988–present Luis Hernández 1996–present Óscar Lara 1968–present
Past members	Freddy Hernández (Deceased) Raúl Hernández 1968–1995 Guadalupe Olivo 1968–1988, 1997–2001
Website	www.lostigresdelnorte.com

Los Tigres del Norte (English: The Tigers of the North) are a norteño band from San Jose, California.^[1][2][3] Originally founded in the small town Rosa Morada in the municipality of Mocorito,^[1] Sinaloa, Mexico, with sales of 32 million albums,^[4] the band is one of the most recognized acts in regional Mexican music, due to their long history and their successes within the Mexican community in the diaspora. The band is famous for its political corridos, some of which have been censored, even in its own country. The band is the only Mexican group to win 7 Grammy awards and 12 Latin Grammys. In addition, the band has made 40 films alongside the Almada brothers (Mario and Fernando) among other well-known Mexican actors.

The band's style is based on regional music of Mexico, using mainly instruments such as the electric bass (or double bass), accordion, bass, drums, and sometimes other percussion instruments. The lyrics in their songs fluctuate between the romantic and the corrido. In recent years the band has begun to make music in a new genre called narcocorrido, in which they narrate the experience of members of drug gangs operating in Mexico. The narcocorrido song "Muerte Anunciada", for example, stands out, as it is dedicated to the legendary Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, "El Jefe de Jefes." In that song, the band tells the story of the power and influence of the now imprisoned Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Another of their famous narcocorridos, "The Queen of the South", is based on a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte from which a television series was made based on the Spanish writer's work. They have become famous in Mexico and the United States, especially in California and Texas, mainly due to the large number of Mexicans living there. They also have found considerable fame in Colombia.

The band won a Grammy Award in 1988 for their album Gracias, América sin Fronteras, and twelve years later their album Herencia de Familia won the award for Best Norteño Album at the first ever Latin Grammys. A year later, in the second edition of the awards, they were nominated again for Best Norteño Album, this time for De Paisano a Paisano, and Best Regional Mexican Song for the song of the same title from that album.