Norteño referred to the Mexicans of Northern Mexico as opposed to Sureño, although anyone from the US is NorteAmericano, since Mexico and Latin America ( Central and South ) long identified themselves as Americanos.

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

The city is also home to the Grammy Award-winning Tejano / Norteño group Los Palominos.

In Mexico the term conjunto is associated with Norteño and Tejano music.

Grupo Bronco is a Mexican Grupero group from Apodaca, N. L .. Bronco's modern take on the Norteño style in the ' 80s and ' 90s helped earn them a number of international hits.

A typical Norteño outfit is being flamed up including a red belt, red shoes, and red shoelaces.

In many areas where they exist, they are known to be ruthless in attacks on their rivals which is praised by fellow gang members. A typical group of Norteño gang members

The term Nortec is a conjunction of Norteño (" of " or " from the North ") and Techno, but mainly describes the collision between the music, style and culture of electronic music with those of norteño and tambora, two music genres indigenous to the North of Mexico.

* Norteño ( music ) is a style of Mexican music related to polka and corridos

* Norteño ( band ) is a tango nuevo band from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

* Norteño is an alcoholic beverage ( aguardiente ) from Ecuador

Norteño (, northern ), also norteña or conjunto, is a genre of Mexican music.

In the 1950s, the heavy influence of Norteño on the traditional music of Mexican-Americans in southern Texas gave rise to a new form of popular music, called Tejano or " Tex-Mex ", which is often influenced by American rock and swing.

However, because Tejano music is derived from Norteño music the two are often confused as different names for the same genre.

Though Norteño came first, Tejano music is a norteño-derived genre and is not the same as norteño.

Norteño continues to be one of the most popular types of modern Mexican music today, but it is also gaining rapid popularity in the United States.

Norteño is a style of Mexican country music and thus has a more rural sound.

Norteño in Texas, for example, is very likely to be influenced by American music like Intocable, young soloist / accordionist Isac Esquivel, while norteña from Tijuana and Tamaulipas may sometimes have influences from the Caribbean.

Adolfo Urías y su Lobo Norteño (" Adolfo Urías and his Northern Wolf ") is a Mexican norteño band headed by Adolfo Urías.

The long history of oppression and subordination has to end ” and that " Along both sides of the U. S .- Mexico border “ there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections ... Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming one people again .”" Truxillo stated that Hispanics who have achieved positions of power or otherwise are “ enjoying the benefits of assimilation ” are most likely to oppose a new nation, explaining that “ There will be the negative reaction, the tortured response of someone who thinks, ' Give me a break.

While all Norteño soldiers and captains in California are expected to follow the orders of Cervantes, a small percentage of the gang remains loyal to the former generals and captains imprisoned in Colorado.

Some law enforcement agents speculate that the Nuestra Familia gang, which operates in and out of prisons, influences much of the criminal activity of thousands of Norteño gang members in California.

Norteño / Conjunto accordion pioneer Narciso Martínez learned many tunes from German and Czech brass bands and transpose them to his accordion.

As a result, many radio stations across the US especially in Texas have converted over to Norteño / Banda music.

Traditional music includes Mariachi, Banda, Norteño, Ranchera and Corridos.

Bandmembers José Guadalupe Esparza, Ramiro Delgado, Javier Villareal, and José Luís ' Choche ' Villareal crafted a sound that paid tribute to the Norteño tradition while incorporating modern instruments like keyboards, as well as a more melodic, pop style with elaborate costumes.

Norteño emblems and clothing are based on the color red.

A Norteño derogatorily refers to a Sureño as a " Scrap " or " Sur ( Sewer ) Rat " Scrapa.

Popular music such as Ranchera, Norteño, son music can be heard on many radio stations across the state from the San Francisco Bay Area to Central Valley.

Tucson's music festivals include the Norteño Music Festival & Street Fair, which celebrates the Mexican-American style of norteño.

Love for these styles by the Mexican people later developed into Norteño and Tejano.

In 2009, the category was split into two new fields: Best Norteño Album and Best Regional Mexican Album.

The word is really `` stronghold ''.

Namibia's ruling party SWAPO sought to support the ruling party MPLA in Angola against the rebel movement UNITA, whose stronghold is in southern Angola, bordering to Namibia.

* 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army.

* 1995 – The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm.

Juan Santamaría, a drummer boy from Alajuela who lost his life torching the filibusters ' stronghold, was killed in this final battle, and is today remembered as a national hero.

Nevada's capital is generally considered a Republican stronghold, often voting for Republicans by wide margins.

Godzilla attacks New York City, Rodan invades Moscow, Mothra lays waste to Beijing, Gorosaurus destroys Paris, and Manda attacks London, which is set in to motion to take attention away from Japan, so the aliens can establish an underground stronghold near Mt.

The three-headed space monster is dispatched to protect the alien stronghold at Mt.

In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Budzistowo stronghold was the largest of several smaller ones in the Persante area, and as such is thought to have functioned as the center of the local Slavic Pomeranian subtribe.

* Avar Ring, Hungary-Central stronghold of the Avars, it is believed to have been in the wide plain between the Danube and the Tisza.

Perhaps the most controversial difference between the anime series and the novels is that in the latter, Amuro Ray is killed in the final attack against the Zeonic stronghold of A Baoa Qu when his RX-78-3 is pierced through the torso by a Rick Dom's beam bazooka.

The Ninth Fort () is a stronghold in the northern part of Šilainiai elderate, Kaunas, Lithuania.

OS / 2 still maintains a small and dedicated community of followers, but overall, OS / 2 failed to catch on in the mass market and is little used outside certain niches where IBM traditionally had a stronghold.

For centuries before the Christianization of Poland, Poznań ( consisting of a fortified stronghold between the Warta and Cybina rivers, on what is now Ostrów Tumski ) was an important cultural and political centre of the Polan tribe.

Although it is possible that Rheged was merely a stronghold, it was not uncommon for sub-Roman monarchs to use their kingdom's name as an epithet.

The Midwestern United States was the original REO Speedwagon fan stronghold and is pivotal in this period of the band's history.

With the advent of mobile warfare, a single fortified stronghold is no longer as decisive as it once was.

Irish annals record the siege of Edinburgh, thought to have been the royal stronghold of the Gododdin, in 638, and this seems to mark the end of the kingdom ; that this siege was undertaken by Oswald is suggested by the apparent control of the area by his brother Oswiu in the 650s.

Lomé's " Grand Marché " is known for its entrepreneurial market women, who have a stronghold over many areas of trade, particularly in African cloth.

The island ’ s Masked Boobies are of the western Indian Ocean subspecies ( Sula dactylatra melanops ), of which Tromelin is a stronghold.

It is usually thought to be derived from " Taani-linn ( a )" ( meaning " Danish-castle / town "; Latin: Castrum Danorum ) after the Danes built the castle in place of the Estonian stronghold at Lindanisse.

Austria is another stronghold of the family name, reaching the position of the 997th most frequent family name with an estimated 1000 individuals.

* February 13 – Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta, last stronghold of the Neapolitan King Francis II, is ended by Piedmontese forces.