SPM, a Chicano rapper, debuted in 1995 and recorded 16 albums with hit songs such as "Mexican Radio," "SPM vs Los" and "Wiggy." "Mexican Radio" has collected over 82 million plays on Spotify.

Swaying boot-to-boot, he belts out a song as the sounds of trumpets and accordions roar from a band of a dozen camouflage-clad soldiers. The rhythmic style — known as a corrido — is ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that she opposed a ban on songs glorifying drug traffickers, after violence erupted at a concert by an artist famous for singing "narcocorridos.