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From Corridos to Ballads: Latin Songs Penned for Presidential Candidates
La Original Banda el Limón released a corrido dedicated to Vice President Kamala Harris. Here are other songs penned for presidential candidates.
Just days before the Nov. 5 presidential elections in the United States, La Original Banda El Limón released a corrido inspired by and dedicated to Vice President Kamala Harris. Juan Barboza Lizárraga, leader of La Original Banda El Limón, explained in a statement about their decision to release a song for Harris and officially endorse a candidate for president: “Our culture, traditions and music are beautiful and powerful just like our community. In May, Mexican singer-songwriter Vivir Quintana dropped “Compañera Presidenta,” a song that she composed in honor of Mexico’s first female president, which read as a letter to the two women leading the polls: Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez.
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