* Con el Mariachi Vargas ( 1988 )

The most prominent Mariachi group is Vargas de Tecalitlán, which was originally formed in 1897.

Mariachi Vargas played for many of these soundtracks, and the long-lived band's long career and popular acclaim has made it one of the best-known mariachi.

Mariachi music and musician became more professional with more formal training starting in the late 1940s and early 1950s, principally due to the success of a major mariachi band by the name of Mariachi Vargas.

Beltrán became famous as a teenager when Mariachi Vargas put her on stage one night.

The event attracts both famous and unknown players including Marichi Vargas de Tecalitlán, Nati Cano ’ s Mariachi Los Camperos and Mariachi América.

Logo of Mariachi Vargas

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán is recognized as the oldest and most famous mariachi ensemble, founded by Gaspar Vargas in the late 1890s.

Mariachi Vargas ’ s first recording was in 1937, the same year they appear in “ Asi es mi Tierra ”.

Silvestre Vargas took over Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán from his father in 1958 and soon after hired a trained musician, Rubín Fuentes, as musical director.

Mariachi Vargas still remains, tracing its history in terms of generations, starting in the 1890s, with these generations maintaining the group ’ s authenticity as a mariachi band while the music has evolved.

In the late 1980s, pop star Linda Ronstadt recorded " Canciones de Mi Padre " and " Más Canciones " with Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán and others which helped to promote its popularity among Mexican Americans and to non-Mexican Americans as well.

* Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

Some of its music included: Movie themes, Eugenia Leon, The Symphonic Beatles with Vadim Brodski, Symphonic Rock Music, Symphonic Queen with Carlos Bonell, Glenn Miller, Agustín Lara, Perez Prado, Betsy Pecanins, Raúl di Blasio, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

* Vihuela: Miguel Angel Barron ( part of the group since 2011, being the newest member of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán )

The history of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán is divided into five phases ( or generations ); the first generation from 1897 to 1930, the second from 1931 to 1949, the third from 1950 to 1993, the fourth from 1994 to 2002 and the fifth since 2003 to date.

The Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán was born in a small city called Tecalitlán, to the south of Jalisco.

In 1931 Gaspar Vargas turned the leadership of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán over to his son, Silvestre.

The Mariachi Vargas was something of an oddity in the early 1930s ; the members were all dressed in charro suits, they showed up on time for performances, and they were sober.

In 1975, Jose " Pepe " Martinez, Sr. became the musical director of Mariachi Vargas.

The series also contains short essays about topics including famous American fiddlers such as Thomas Jefferson and Davy Crockett, the history of Gypsies and Mariachi, and various dances.

The most famous mariachi in Mexico is Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, founded in the late 19th century in the southern Jalisco city of Tecalitlán, Jalisco, but now based in Mexico City.

A Mariachi group includes singers, guitar, trumpets, violin and marimba players.

Central to the evolution of early Tejano music was the blend of traditional forms such as the Corrido and Mariachi, and Continental European styles, such as Polka, introduced by German and Czech settlers in the late 19th century.

Some instruments whose predecessors were brought from Europe, such as the vihuela used in Mariachi music, are now very Mexican.

Jose Pablo Moncayo with compositions such as Huapango, and Blas Galindo with Sones de Mariachi, are also recognized as adapters of Mexican sons into symphonic music.

Traditional music of Mexico features several varieties of acoustic bass guitars, such as the bajo sexto, with six pairs of strings, and the guitarrón, a very large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic bass guitar played in Mariachi bands.

Mariachi vocalization shows influences from a number of styles such as bolero ( a romantic style ), huapango ( using falsetto ), son jaliscense ( an aggressive style and more.

The promotion of mariachi as representative of Mexico has led to the formation of mariachi groups in many countries such as Aruba, Egypt, Cuba, Spain, Croatia, Sweden, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, with bands from these and more countries participating in Guadalajara ’ s International Mariachi and Charreria Conference.

Professional groups such as Mariachi Cobre, which regularly performs at Disney World, also spend time teaching in public schools.

The Las Vegas International Mariachi Festival, established in 1991, is televised on Telemundo and PBS and has headlined artists such as Pedro Fernández, Ana Gabriel, Pepe Aguilar and more.

Another is the encouragement of female mariachis including all-female mariachi bands such as Mariachi Mujer 2000 and Mariachi Divas.

Mariachi Mujer has performed with Mexican artists such as Vikki Carr, Pablo Montero, Gerardito Fernandez and Nydia Rojas.

* Mexicana-A wide variety of traditional folk music from Mexico, featuring styles such as Ranchera, Banda and Mariachi.

The eight string guitar has recently begun to gain popularity, notably among jazz artists such as Charlie Hunter, The Special Purpose, Terje Rypdal and Richard Scott, and metal artists such as Deftones, Meshuggah, Mariachi Terror, Ad Ruinas, Stations, Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Ihsahn, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, After The Burial, and Gwar.

However, versions such as those by musical groups Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan and Los Pregoneros del Puerto have survived because of the artists ' popularity.

As such, he had a profound influence on Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán and mariachi music in general.

Another variant of Latin house, which began in the mid-1990s, was derived in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and is based on more Mexican-centric styles of music such as Mariachi.

Other examples of subgenres of Mexican cumbia are Cumbia Mariachi, Cumbia Andina Mexicana or Cumbia Sonidera and other, its national variants, is a fusion of the adapted folklores of Colombia with the nationals like Musica norteña, ( northern music ), the mariachi, Banda sinaloense, romantic music, huapango, or huasteco, as well as old and modern genres of other countries, such as the Cuban Salsa, merengue, reggae, ska and other Caribbean sounds.

The country was invaded by other musical genres, especially from counties to the north ; Mariachi from Mexico and the, combined with the Afro-Caribbean rhythms such as the salsa and merengue and the empowering of the Vallenato as national music would move the cumbia almost to extinction.

Miguel Martinez was the first trumpet player for Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán.