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Niko Rubio Finds Her Siren Song
Mexican Salvadoran singer Niko Rubio references rancheras and experiments with ska on her EP, 'Mar y Tierra,' which she announces with Rolling Stone.
As a kid, Niko Rubio remembers spending countless days pretending she was a mermaid, relaxing on the sandy beaches of her native L.A. as music by Gwen Stefani, Julieta Venegas, and Nelly Furtado floated in the background. Sometimes, the sounds of the Limón y Sal accordion would be interrupted by the trumpets of the rancheras of Vicente Fernandez when her grandpa would pull up in his Dodge Ram pickup truck to take a slightly sunburnt Rubio home from the shore. 1, the EP Mar y Tierra hears Rubio sing completely in Spanish, marrying modern pop sounds with the influence of Mexican music — mariachi, boleros, rancheras, rock en español.
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