His sales skyrocketed after the shooting was largely reported in US and elsewhere in Spanish speaking world. Chalino was shot and was rushed to critical surgery and survived.

He recorded his first cassettes in the late 1980’s and started to gain underground attention as a singer of ‘narcocorridos’ or ‘corridos prohibidos’, forbidden ballads that told the stories of valientes, drug dealers, murderers, smugglers and revenge.Ĭhalino’s fame rose even more through a gunfight incident at his concert in city of Coachella in California in 1992 where crowdmember opened fire towards Chalino, who returned fire with his own pistol and started a gunfight that ended up injuring 7 to 10 people and caused one death. That made him well known in criminal underworld and Chalino continued this path until the very end of his life. Sánchez sang praises and the stories and legends of other inmates for money and fun and named his songs after the people the songs depicted. His life of odd jobs and small time crime, as a drug dealer and smuggler, eventually led him to a prison stint in 1984 where Sánchez really started to sing traditional regional Mexican corridos or ballads. His life and music combine into one of the greatest stories in music in the last decades.Ĭhalino, who was born Rosalino Sánchez in Sinaloa Mexico 1960 and fled as a young man over the border to US after reportedly killing the rapist of his sister in Sinaloa. ”These songs are mostly unknown to western audiences but his presence and influence in Mexico and even more so in Southern US along with his cult-like status there is undisputed and unmatched in scope. This time he is focussing on the work of Chalino Sánchez and the norteño/ranchero style corridos. We are very excited to welcome back DJJ to our mix series.

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