Long-running Mexican band Los Tigres Del Norte will make their local arena debut when they headline St. Paul’s Grand Casino Arena on April 18.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday via Ticketmaster.
Jorge Hernández, his brothers and their cousins formed the band in the mid-’60s while living in Mexico. They began recording after moving to San Jose in 1968.
Three years later, the group heard a Los Angeles mariachi singer perform a number about a pair of drug runners. There had been ballads about the cross-border drug trade for decades, but this song was more cinematic. Los Tigres del Norte went on to cover “Contrabando y traición” (“Contraband and Betrayal”) in 1974. It was a hit on both sides of the border, inspired a series of movies and served as the launching pad for a successful career.
The band is one of the biggest acts in regional Mexican music and has become famous for its political ballads. They’re the only Mexican group to win seven Grammy Awards and 13 Latin Grammys.
The current lineup features three founding members in Jorge Hernández, Hernán Hernández and Óscar Lara.
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