Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles

Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles have the rare distinction of being not only an excellent band, but a one that has made history, to boot. The group started in South El Monte, CA in 1994 after José Hernández, a board member of the non-profit Mariachi Heritage Society, noticed that the younger members taking music lessons were very skilled at playing traditional mariachi instruments like the violin, trumpet, and guitarrón mexicano. Knowing that female musicians have few female role models to look up to in mariachi music (women tended to only be singers in the genre), Hernández crea...