El sinaloense

Usage note

This should be the record for the reference version. "El sinaloense" is one of the most popular, played, recorded and revered song in Mexico. Several ISWC for different arrangements exist and probably most Mariachi versions should reference a derived record that would describe the interpretation that was arranged by Rubén Fuentes for the Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán. Nevertheless, in the real world, many Mariachi versions, when they were published, haven't and shall refer to this one if the disc label, the sleeve or the booklet don't mention the arrangers.

Brief history of the song

In 1944, Severiano Briseño Chávez, who was born in San Luis Potosí State, performed and toured with the brothers Guillermo and Rafael Samperio, in a band whose name was El Trío Tamaulipeco.
On October 10, 1943, the trio was travelling with the aim of a tour in the southwest of the US, but near Mazatlán, they discovered unpracticable roads due to a tropical storm, and have to seek shelter in the “El Torito Machado” cantina of Don Nacho Velarde.
They played there several days and one night a citizen from Navolato, Óscar Malacón López, asked them to compose in the honor of the city of Navolato a song that could become as famous as their "Corrido a Monterrey" was. Several versions nevertheless report different sponsors of the song. One also pretends that Severiano Briseño bought the melody from the Sinaloan compositor Enrique Sánchez Alonso “El Negrumo” when they were drinking in a bar and when this latest one needed money to pay his bill.
Trío Tamaulipeco interpreted "El sinaloense" for the first time in a nightclub of Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1944. The following year El Trío Tariácuri interpreted it for a Mexican national broadcasting radio station, but he gained international reconnaissance, in 1952, when Banda Los Guamuchileños from Culiacán recorded and made it popular. Banda El Recodo recorded it for the first time in 1954.
From that times, the song has been recorded several hundred times.

Sources

• El Sinaloense surgió ¿por envidia a Monterrey? Te explicamos el origen de la canción. Laura Salazar. 28/04/2022. El Sol de Sinaloa. Sol de Culiacán. S.A. de C.V. Culiacán Rosales.
• Al son de la tambora: análisis interpretativo de la percusión en el son de la Banda Sinaloense. Nicolás Sebastian Guerrero Avendaño. Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Departamento de Educación Musical Licenciatura en Música Bogotá, 2017.