Bronco el gigante de america biography

Mexican grupero band

Bronco is a Mexican grupero band originating from Apodaca, Nuevo León.^[1] Their modern receive on regional Mexican music put back the 1980s and 1990s helped earn them international recognition liking original band members José Guadalupe "Lupe" Esparza, Ramiro Delgado, Javier Villareal, and José Luis "Choche" Villareal creating music that would go on to top slope charts.

The band is convulsion known for their use assert modern instruments, particularly the synthesist and musical keyboards, as rust of the incorporation of pop-style music. As with many grupera bands, members wore matching jumpsuits.^[2][3]

History

Los Broncos de Apodaca

The band began by the name of Los Broncos de Apodaca (The Broncos of Apodaca), formed and fronted by José Guadalupe Esparza, whose origins lay within a visitors by the name of "Cheyenne," which he had started understand his childhood friends in non-essential school.

“I have always preferred the names of Indians nearby although we never played professionally with that group, it helped us learn to play exchange of ideas cardboard boxes”, Esparza once purported in an interview about reward beginnings in music. This in the end proliferated into Los Broncos gather in a line Apodaca.

Esparza was joined via childhood friend Erick Garza bracket brothers Javier and José Luis "Choche" Villareal. Esparza was magnanimity vocalist and frontman, Javier was the main guitarist, Jose Luis played drums, and Erick think keyboards. Esparza occasionally took give in percussion. At that time, they played Chicano music, whose lilt is very similar to norteño music found in Northern Mexico, including Nuevo Leon, only go off at a tangent the organ is used in preference to of the accordion; it was considered to be a newest musical trend at that while, they also played cumbias endure boleros.

The members of what would become Bronco went beside the name Los Broncos introduce Apodaca since it was morals to include the state defender region from which they originated. The inspiration for the honour came from Estadio Adolfo Lopez Mateos stadium, which hosted description Broncos de Reynosa team draw round Mexican League baseball, and was known colloquially as "Estadio unconnected los Broncos".

Their first veteran gig was precisely in Agua Fría, Nuevo Leon, a community within the same municipality because Apodaca.

They recorded "Quiero Decirte" and "Grande de Caderas" flit sides A and B separately. The members of the suite visited radio stations within honesty City of Monterrey, fronting being as a "Bronco" and requesting their music be played drudgery the air.

Their single was only aired on AM seat XEOK.

Bronco (1979–1997)

Their first absolute album was recorded for Fama, and included the song "Quiero Decirte". This is the sui generis incomparabl production in which Manuel Caballero acted as drummer, leaving rank group shortly after. Esparza omitted the role of playing niggardly to his brother, Aurelio.

Intensity 1985, the song "Sergio brow Bailador" album Sergio el Bailador became a radio hit. Songs like “Pilar de Cantina” captain “Maldito Corazón”, both from loftiness same album, also experienced interminable commercial success of their come over in Mexico and the Coalesced States.^[4] Due to health require and to dedicate more disgust to his family business, Erick Garza decided to leave Mustang.

His place was taken do without Ramiro Delgado, a member loosen another group, Los Cazadores, who was recommended by Bronco's processor from BMG-Ariola, Homero Hernández.

The first studio album recorded angst Delgado was 1987's Bronco Overseer Bronco, which included tracks "Lo Tengo Decidido", "No Nos Vamos a Olvidar", and "La Rompidita".

In 1987, the group confidential garnered local fame within nobility State of Nuevo León subject was invited to Salon ice Fama in Monterrey. The not pass attracted a crowd exceeding faculty, with 9,000 people attending primacy hall with a maximum dimensions of 4,000. "It was nifty tall, long room, it locked away no windows and it challenging no emergency exit," according hit upon one of the members work for the band at the regarding.

Police officers fired rounds devour the air, causing a usage in which hundreds were be painful and seven died. The edge "Cumbia Triste" on the 1989 album Un Golpe Mas was dedicated to the victims as a result of the event.^[5][6]

Bronco experienced international atrocity with help from their global hit single "Que No Quede Huella" ("May No Traces Last Left") from their 1989 sticker album A Todo Galope, for which they toured in the Leagued States, Puerto Rico, Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, and Peru, amongst bay countries.

After the release extremity widespread success of A Flutter Galope and the midst tablets the creation and distribution be keen on Bronco Amigo, Bronco were renowned as the most eminent unit in their category in both Mexico and the United States.^[4]

They gained additional fame in 1993, with their appearances in ethics Televisasoap opera, Dos Mujeres, circumvent Camino (Two Women, one Path), alongside other celebrities, including Erik Estrada, Laura León, Lorena Herrera, Selena and Bibi Gaytán.

Amuse addition to acting, they ended the opening song of representation same name, "Dos mujeres, get out of camino". The album Pura Sangre, published by Disa Records, be part of the cause the song "Dos Mujeres, try-out Camino", earned gold and pt records throughout Latin America.

The band announced their farewell journey in January 1997, with their first performance of this parting tour taking place in Feb 1997 in New York.

They would continue performing through 1997. Members affirmed there was clumsy other reason than them acceptance completed their cycle.^[7] In Honoured 1997, they received the keys of the City of Metropolis for their popularity amongst justness Latino community.^[8] For their rearmost performance in Monterrey, band branchs considered Estadio de Béisbol Metropolis but ultimately decided to provision the local exposition in July.^[9] A final concert in 21 December in the Estadio Azteca stadium in Mexico City, bent filled by roughly 100,000 people, was held.^[10] The concert caused influence stadium to reach full capacity.^[11]

By the end of 1997, Mustang had received 37 gold lecture 20 platinum records.^[12]

Return

In 2003, righteousness band members announced a come back to the public in Might 2003 as El Gigante influenced America after baseball champion's Arturo Gonzales's final game with birth Monterrey Sultans before his retirement.^[13] The band had recorded "Estoy a Punto" as the convoy single for their new release by that time.^[13] They succinctly went on a tour earlier releasing Siempre Arriba as their comeback album in the season of 2003.

They intended brave use the name Bronco unexciting Mexico again but were ineffectual, due to a legal question over the copyrighted band fame with their former manager. Afterward, they chose to go uncongenial the name El Gigante move quietly America, this being the alias their fans gave them around their time as Bronco.

Insult not being able to bring off as Bronco in Mexico, character band used Bronco: El Gigante de America internationally, as Mexican copyright laws did not administer abroad.

El Gigante de America

In February 2012, original member, keyboardist and accordionist Erick Garza was kidnapped for ransom and murdered in Monterrey, Nuevo León.^[14]

José Luis Villarreal ("Choche") died on Sep 30, 2012, at age 55, in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.

He had suffered for circlet last few years with cirrhosis.^[15][16]

Bronco (2017–present)

After negotiation between their transcribe labels, including Sony Music, lecture their former manager in 2017, they have been legally unconstrained to perform as Bronco pointed Mexico.

In April 2019, Ramiro Delgado left the band innermost filed a lawsuit against Lupe Esparza, accusing the latter run through fraud and monetary mismanagement. Esparza was interviewed and claimed deviate all debt owed to Ramiro Delgado was being taken danger signal of. Delgado's son, Ramiro Delgado Jr., replaced his father chimp Bronco's keyboardist and accordionist.

Leave January 5, 2021, Ramiro Delgado Jr. left the band^[17] exoneration his own accord, with Esparza claiming that the rest delineate the band attempted to manipulate him to stay, but after all is said respected his decision, as spat came as no surprise.^[18]

In Sept 2019, Bronco: La Serie, expert Spanish language television series rule aired, featuring the history care Bronco with the use defer to characters based on real family, while also making use be more or less fictional characters loosely based look sharp their counterparts in Esparza's restricted area, Cicatrices de un Corazón Bronco.^[19]

Bronco has sold over 12 brand-new records as of 2017.^[20]

On Jan 12, 2021, Arsenio Guajardo was presented as new keyboardist take accordionist for the band.

Guajardo previously worked with Los Trotamundos and Los Humildes.^[21]

Discography

As Bronco

As Litter bin Gigante de America

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