VIVA Los Tigres del Norte !!!
Los Tigres del Norte are making history today. The San Jose, Calif.–based norteño group are receiving a Special Recognition (Spanish Language) award from GLAAD for “Era Diferente,” a song on their newest album, Realidades. The song is about a lesbian teenager who falls in love with her best friend. It's the first song about gay love in the band's 47-year history.
A household name in Spanish-speaking America, Los Tigres have sold more than 37 million albums worldwide, having written some of the most memorable and iconic corridos in the history of norteño music. They have six Grammys and six Latin Grammys and were recently honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The GLAAD award was unexpected, says lead singer and accordion player Jorge Hernandez, “I thought that no one would notice this song,” he says. “When GLAAD called me, I thought it was very important that we are sending a message to the LGBT community.”
“Era Diferente” translates to “She Was Different,” and is about a young girl who struggles with boys fighting for her attention. “They make bets for her affection,” sings Hernandez, “but none of them win her love ... She was so different from the other girls because she was never interested in a boy’s love.”
This is the first time a norteño group has ever penned a gay love song in the entire history of the genre, says Hernandez, who wrote the song. The impetus for the song came after gay fans began approaching Los Tigres members after performances and asking them, “Why don’t you sing about us?”
http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/music/2015/03/21/los-tigres-del-norte-are-making-gay-norte-o-history
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