Chalino Sánchez

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Rosalino "Chalino" Sánchez Félix (30 August 1960 – 16 May 1992) was a Mexican singer and composer. Posthumously called "The King of Corrido" (Spanish: El Rey del Corrido), Sánchez is often considered the most influential Mexican narcocorrido singer of the late twentieth century. His songs mostly contained stories of murder and organized crime in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Northern Mexico, including topics such as the Mexican Revolution, drug cartels, drug trafficking, serial killers, Mexican standoffs, and murder–suicides. He also composed and sang romantic and radio-friendly songs. Sánchez grew up in a poor, violent, rural area of Sinaloa, the youngest of eight children. His father died when Sánchez was six years old. At age 15, Sánchez shot and killed a man who had raped his sister two years prior. In 1975, he crossed the border to the United States of America. In 1984, his brother (also involved in the cartel) Armando was murdered in a hotel in Tijuana, inspiring him to compose...

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