Latino singer’s work focus of new film - Lalo Guerrero

“Lalo Guerrero was a prolific singer and composer who recorded in a variety of styles, from folksy corridos to boleros. But he’s regarded as the father of Chicano music because of what he sang about.

“I think his greatest contribution is that he recorded Chicano history in song. He became our musical historian,” Guerrero’s son, Dan, said in a recent interview. “He always used to say, ‘Well, you know, I only wrote about what I saw.’ But what he saw was our people and whatever was going on, whether it was something fun and funny like ‘La Minifalda’ or whether it was something more serious, like lack of Latino faces on the screen.”"

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