corrido
Americannoun
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corridos
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of corrido
< Mexican Spanish, Spanish; see corrida
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Of the new album, one of its highlights is the buoyant corrido “Terca,” which elaborates on a short story in the memoir about Venegas’ move to Mexico City.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Armenta was instrumental in writing and producing Tito Double P’s 2024 debut “Incómodo,” a 21-track project that helped distinguish the Mexican corrido singer from his already famous cousin, Peso Pluma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
I didn’t know what would happen with it, or if people would accept a corrido singer making reggaeton music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
“Adelita” is an adaptation of a traditional Mexican corrido, a traditional epic poem that can be set to music.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025
Although Oriental Märchen turning on this motif of the louse-skin drum are lacking, the Filipino corrido need not have got the conception from Europe: it is Malayan.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
We knew that people liked us apart from the corridos like “Rápido Soy,” “No Son Doritos,” but I think with “Como Capo” we discovered that people like other sounds and lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
The song was cut from Armenta’s own 2025 debut, “Portate Bien,” a blend of corridos tumbados with melodic touches of reggaeton and pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
He’s memorialized in corridos, or Mexican folk ballads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
According to Spotify, corridos accounted for 77% of all música Mexicana streaming in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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