Llegan los norteños
Guillermo
Velázquez
Played by Guillermo Velázquez y Los Leones de la Sierra
de Xichú
Guillermo Velázquez, poet and musician from the Sierra
Gorda of central México, has an extraordinary talent
for composing words and music that are sharp and memorable and
which capture the reality of life in Mexico today. In this song
Guillermo describes the contradictions provoked by mass emigration
from his village to the fields of the U.S. The villagers who
return home for the annual fiesta come in search of an identity
that lost on their journey north.
