L. a. Unique Banda El Limón Celebrates 60 Years of Sinaloan Custom

L. a. Unique Banda El Limón de Salvador Lizárraga, probably the most longest-running Sinaloan bands within the style, is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary and is getting ready to have a good time during 2025.

“I’m satisfied to announce that Alex Lora, frontman of El Tri, has joined our party with one in all his songs, “L. a. Raza Más Chida,” which we can unveil in due time,” unearths Juan Lizárraga, grandson of the crowd’s founder and present track manufacturer, in an interview with Billboard Español. “There are a number of visitors for duets that we can be saying within the close to long run.

“We wish to come with probably the most vocalists who’ve been within the band, like Julio Preciado,” continues Lizárraga, relating to the primary reputable singer now not most effective of L. a. Unique Banda El Limón however of any banda track of its sort.

L. a. Unique Banda El Limón was once shaped in 1965 in a small the town in Sinaloa referred to as El Limón de los Peraza, from which it took its title. Following within the footsteps of its predecessor, Banda El Recodo de Don Cruz Lizárraga, it all started as a wind band and, already with an outlined taste and an earned popularity, served as accompaniment for nice stars reminiscent of Lola Beltrán, José Alfredo Jiménez and Antonio Aguilar. In 1990 they launched their first album, Puro Mazatlán, with which they innovated by means of hanging their very own vocalist in a Sinaloa band for the primary time.

Since then, the band has launched greater than 50 albums, 10 of that have seemed on Billboard‘s Best Latin Albums chart and 7 at the Regional Mexican Albums chart. The gang has additionally positioned 33 songs in Regional Mexican Airplay, achieving No. 1 with “Al Menos” (2010) and “Di Que Regresarás” (2011), amongst different achievements. Banda El Limón has gained a couple of awards reminiscent of Latin Grammys for easiest banda album, two times, for Soy Tu Maestro (2010) and L. a. Unique y Sus Boleros De Amor (2013), in addition to the Billboard Mexican Track Award for Excellence in Regional Mexican Track in 2012.

On Jan. 29, the crowd gained reputation from the Promotores Unidos USA affiliation in Las Vegas, kicking off his anniversary celebrations.

As of late, Don Salvador Lizarraga’s grandchildren, who name him papá, raise on his legacy since his passing in 2021. Considered one of them, manufacturer Juan Lizárraga, talks with Billboard Español about their accomplishments, their upcoming plans and the opportunity of at some point seeing L. a. Unique play along track friends like Banda El Recodo and L. a. Arrolladora Banda El Limón.

How nice is the duty to stay related after six many years?

I’d get started by means of pronouncing that I’m very excited. Time is going by means of very speedy; ten years in the past we had been celebrating our fiftieth anniversary with an enormous live performance on the Zócalo in Mexico Town, one thing that marked our historical past. The legacy of my papá Salvador is one thing that should be dignified, one thing that we should paintings arduous on. My brother Carlos, my brother Andrey, Francisco and I realized from him as a qualified, but additionally as the good gentleman he was once. This party is a dream come true for my dad, although he’s not right here, and for us who’re sporting on his legacy.

Characters like Don Cruz Lizárraga (from Banda El Recodo) and Don Salvador Lizárraga constructed a vital section within the historical past of regional Mexican track. Did your father understand that?

My dad used to let us know that he couldn’t consider what was once going to occur to his band. On the time, the one factor he thought of was once bringing house the bread. Folks like him and Don Cruz Lizárraga liked track and in it they discovered their circle of relatives’s livelihood. They weren’t in search of luck; they simply loved what they did. It’s been a super adventure during which many characters have left their lives to succeed in that the bands are situated as a very powerful a part of Mexican tradition.

What’s it that helps to keep Sinaloa’s bands alive?

There are songs which are 30 years previous and are nonetheless hits. That’s what makes a bunch nice, that makes the variation. It’s with track that we in reality go beyond and stay related. So long as there are singers and musicians who love the band, it’ll by no means prevent and can proceed to be sturdy. Banda El Recodo and L. a. Unique Banda El Limón are known for his or her longevity, however we can’t omit what Banda MS has accomplished. In 20 years, they’ve completed what it took others two times as lengthy. L. a. Arrolladora additionally had its golden age. Banda Los Recoditos too. In brief, there are lots of that proceed to dignify regional Mexican track.

Models come and move, however what is definitely cemented continues. It’s like when a storm passes and does now not knock down a palm tree; it’ll shake it, it’ll bend it, however it’s neatly planted and won’t knock it down. Banda sinaloense track already has a hard earned position.

What do you’ve deliberate to have a good time those 60 years?

I’m satisfied to announce that Alex Lora, frontman of El Tri, has joined our party with one in all his songs, which we can unveil in due time. He’s overjoyed with how the preparations grew to become out as a result of we took care of the 2 essences, we completed some degree of stability. On the finish of the day, we’re improving Mexican track. We’re taken with making collaborations with artists which are becoming a member of us. It’s now not about doing songs by means of L. a. Unique Banda El Limón; we did that now not too way back. We would like the visitor to select the track, and most significantly, we would like them to experience banda track. As for a celebration, we even have it in thoughts and we’re running on it.

During your historical past you’ve had some nice collaborations, is there one you have in mind specifically?

Thankfully there are a number of, with crucial artists like Jenni Rivera, Juanes and Becky G, however person who was once no doubt a large problem was once to be a part of the tribute to Caifanes with “No Dejes Que.” Making it sound just right with a band and making them find it irresistible was once now not simple, however they had been very glad. All the ones moments make us really feel satisfied and pleased with our style.