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Calling for a song

Take advantage of your visit to Cancún and live the experience of being part of a real mexican party to the sound of mariachi. Have dinner in a typical restaurant, go to see a folkloric ballet or enjoy the show in some hotel, so you can listen to these extraordinary musicians.

All respectable mariachis have huge repertoires. Their tremendous scope is the result of “doing requests” –something considered part of the show– and no mariachi would be caught dead admitting there’s a tune he doesn’t know.

To help you when calling for a song, we’ve compiled a list of the most popular tunes:

• El son de la negra (The Melody of the Dark Lady): guaranteed to fit the mood of every one present; the mariachis signature tune, often used to herald their arrival.

• Las mañanitas (Mexico’s A.M. wakeup Melody) The country’s answer to “Happy Birthday.”

• Las golondrinas (The Swallows): a sad, moving melody known to provoke tears, and usually sung for a member of the audience who is going away.

Here are a few of the nation’s most famous love songs, stirring melodies that either praise love, or mourn for love’s demise: El rey (The King); De qué manera te olvido (How can I forget you); Volver volver (Return Again and Again); Cielito lindo (Sweet Heaven): this is one of the Mexico’s most beloved songs, recognized the world over. Cucurrucucú Paloma (So Sing the Dove); No me amenaces (Don’t Threaten Me); La que se fue (The One that left); En el rincón de una cantina (Alone, in the Corner of a Cantina).

And last but certainly not least, here are the country’s most cherished patriotic tunes. These compositions tend to be finer, and musically more complex, and usually signal the close of the performance: México lindo y querido (Beloved and Beautiful México); Guadalajara (capital of the Jalisco state); Cocula (a town in Jalisco said to be the homeland of the mariachis); and Ay Jalisco, no te rajes! (Oh, Jalisco, Don’t Give Up!).