PERFORMANCE/TOUR: The Music Melds Mexican and South American Traits with Ongoing European Trends

Reporting from Los Angeles and Mexico City -- Growing up in a middle-class home in Mexico City's genteel Coyoacn neighborhood, Camilo Lara watched MTV and listened to the Happy Mondays and the Charlatans, "in my room, very loud." But whenever he drifted into his family's communal living spaces or the kitchen, he'd get a shot of Jos Jos, classical music, cumbia (which the family's cook favored) or "some crappy Mexican pop...

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