Rigo Tovar – Mi Matamoros Querido

The northern Mexican border sound. Rigo Tovar, from Matamoros in Tamaulipas, added synthesisers, electric guitar and a rock-star image to cumbia in the 1970s and drew enormous crowds. Mi Matamoros Querido, his love song to his home city, shows the mix: a keyboard melody, a steady cumbia pulse and a sentimental lyric. Choose it to hear where much later Mexican grupero music came from.