The beauty of being innocent is not being burdened with guilt. In fact, a helicopter came looking for us, but we weren’t afraid. “We had such a provincial innocence back then. “We didn’t know what degree of danger we were in,” Marco reflects. Los Bukis later chronicled the experience in their 1978 corrido, “ Los Alambrados,” or “Wire Fences,” which was dedicated to migrants who took the same perilous journey. So they embarked on a dangerous trek in 1977 without proper documentation, much less a backup plan, they made their way across the border with four others on foot. Upon releasing their 1975 debut, “ Falso Amor,” the Solís boys, still teenagers, booked a lucrative first tour in the United States.

Previously named Los Hermanitos Solís, or The Brothers Solís, the band formed in Ario de Rosales, a town in Michoacán, Mexico, where founding members Marco and Joel were born and raised. Donning a white fedora, bassist Eusebio “El Chivo” Cortéz, 62, gazes towards a glossy grand piano, from which he later serenades the room with Babyface’s 2001 hit, “What If.” Meanwhile, Marco’s younger brother José Javier Solís, 60, conga player and jester of the band, teases the photographer by ducking behind his cousin, founding guitarist Joel Solís, and Los Bukis’ longstanding drummer, Pedro Sánchez, 63. “Pepe,” 62, who mans the saxophone and keys. He is flanked by the Guadarrama brothers - Roberto, 61, who plays trumpet and keyboard, and José, a.k.a. But for the Black Crowes, rock heals all woundsĪfter years apart, the Black Crowes perform at the Forum on Thursday, part of a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of the group’s breakthrough debut. Music Chris and Rich Robinson swore never to speak again. Despite the band’s immense popularity with SoCal’s Mexican American community, says Flores, “I didn’t think that tickets would sell out so quickly.”

He surprised his mother with passes to the SoFi show, which he had ceremoniously hand-delivered to her by a Solís impersonator. “Los Bukis are the Mexican Beatles,” says Erik Flores, 27. Upon adding a second date in Los Angeles, Los Bukis sold it out once more at lightning speed - then tacked on additional stadium dates in Chicago, Houston, San Antonio, Arlington, Texas and Oakland.

“Mexico was our birthplace,” says Solís, “but California was the cradle.” Two-plus decades later, Hans Schafer, the head of Live Nation Latin, says that the band sold out the 70,000-seat SoFi Stadium within minutes - faster than the Rolling Stones sold tickets to their SoFi show in October. In August 1995, Los Bukis performed at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before 60,000 fans for what would have been their last-ever L.A. “It didn’t give us much in the beginning, but it’s where we recorded most of our records. is very representative of us,” says Marco Antonio Solís, Los Bukis’ famously coiffed lead singer and songwriter, now 61. Earlier this summer, long-dormant Mexican superstars Los Bukis - whose ballads have soundtracked generations of Latino barbecues, weddings and Saturday cleaning sprees but who last performed some 25 years ago - shocked their fans by announcing a comeback tour, “Una Historia Cantada” (A History in Song).

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