Callejon sin salida los relampaguitos biography

A seminal norteño-conjunto act, Los Relámpagos del Norte (literally "The Lightning from the North") set new standards of songcraft and technique, the latter through the astonishingly inventive playing of Ramón Ayala. They brought norteño music into the mainstream, and they did it while maintaining and even intensifying an essential "cantina" loneliness. The breadth of Los Relámpagos' influence can be found on any of their many recordings. Cornelio Reyna was born on September 16, 1940, in Coahuila. A bricklayer by trade, he was deeply involved with music by the age of 16. Several years later he was performing in a conjunto band at the Cadillac Bar in the border town of Reynosa, which is where he met the 15-year-old Ramón Ayala. Ayala was born in 1945 in Monterrey and had received his first musical education at five years of age from his father, local musician Ramón Covarrubias. He was already a mature talent on the accordion by the time he met Reyna, having paid his dues in several g

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