Sam Quinones on Chalino Sánchez, the King of Corridos Who Couldn’t Sing (And Why That Didn’t Matter)

Summary

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Sam Quinones, journalist, former L.A. Times staff writer and one of the first reporters to write about Chalino Sánchez in the U.S., to talk about the man who looms large over Mexican-American music and the legend that outlived him. They start with who Chalino was: an immigrant from Sinaloa who wrote corridos in Los Angeles, sang them “like battery acid,” and became a star in the Southeast cities before he was killed in Culiacán in 1992. Sam explains how he reported a biography on a man with almost no paper trail, from the polleros of…

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