Today's music lesson: Los Ángeles Azules ("de Iztapalapa para el mundo")

I've been known to dig a little cumbia. Gilda's 'no me arrepiento de este amor' has been on some of my playlists for more than a few years now. But I'm not a serious enthusiast by any means. I hear it, I dig it, I don't think much more of it. Exhibit A of this would be 'Cómo te voy a olvidar'. I have heard this particular song 500+ times. One of our colleagues at Bazar San Ángel has it in heavy circulation on the playlist every Saturday. 4 years of Saturdays, at least 2x per Saturday, plus all the other times I've heard it just kicking around Mexico for 11+ years, maybe I've heard it 1000 times. Never bothered to figure out who sings it. Today it popped up and I stopped to check: Los Ángeles Azules, of course.

These guys are icons. They have played concerts in the Zocalo mulitple times.


So now I'm working my way through their discography and realizing that Cómo te voy a olvidar is just one of many, many songs by Los Ángeles Azules that I know. Better late than never.