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Bandleader Nati Cano, leading figure in mariachi music, dies at 81
Category: Various Date: October 5, 2014, 10:54 pm Feed: Yahoo Music

Nati Cano and Jesus Guzman hold their awards after winning Best Regional Mexican Album at the 51st annual Grammy AwardsBy Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning mariachi bandleader Nati Cano, who stirred American audiences with the folk sounds of his native Mexico and played a key role in helping to teach young people how to play the music, has died at age 81, a bandmate said on Saturday. Cano died on Friday at a hospital in Fillmore, California, after a long battle with cancer, said the bandmate, Sergio Alonso. Born in 1933 in a rural town near Guadalajara, Mexico, Natividad "Nati" Cano grew up with the mariachi music his family of day laborers played in their spare time. ...



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