Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero Jr. (December 24, 1916 – March 17, 2005) [2] was an American guitarist, singer and farm labor activist best known for his strong influence on later Latin musical artists. [3]

2018年3月28日 · Lalo Guerrero, the son of immigrants from a poor barrio in Tucson, Arizona, was a pioneering musician whose bilingual songs and bicultural persona earned him the honorary title "The Father of Chicano Music."

Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero was born December 24, 1916, in what is now known as the Barrio Histórico area of Tucson, Arizona, one of eight surviving children of a family of 27. He learned the rudiments of guitar playing from his mother, Concepción Guerrero, a traditional singer …

Lalo Guerrero, the son of immigrants from a poor barrio in Tucson, Arizona, was a pioneering musician whose bilingual songs and bicultural persona earned him the honorary title "The Father of Chicano Music."

Beginning his recording career in 1938, Lalo Guerrero is called “the father of Chicano music” and “the original Chicano hepcat.” Lalo mused the joys and sorrows, dreams and frustrations of the Latino-American community and Chicano popular culture and music.

Lalo Guerrero, a forgotten figure in Mexico and little remembered in the United States, is the father of Chicano music. During a career that spanned more than seven decades, he sang about the experience of the Chicano and the Pachuco subculture in songs like, “There’s no tortillas and Los Chucos Suaves.”

Guerrero became internationally recognized as the “Father of Chicano Music” in a career that spanned generations. He was a great entertainer and he took his guitar and music everywhere – the White House, a neighbor’s house, a concert hall or a classroom.

2005年3月20日 · Former President Bill Clinton recognized Eduardo “Lalo” Guerrero Jr. as the father of Chicano music. Guerrero was given the Presidential Medal of the Arts by Clinton in 1997. Sixty years...

2018年5月11日 · Lalo Guerrero. Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero Jr. (1916–2005) is known as the father of Chicano music. His career began in the 1930s and continued on until his death in 2005, contributing along the way to most of the new developments in Mexican-American music in the southwestern United States.

2022年8月8日 · Lalo spent every day surrounded by the beauty, strength, and truly unique spirit of Chicano culture, and translated it into his music. His art and songwriting played a pivotal role in shifting the focus of the lens hovering over Chicano’s heads.