Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
While Banda music has been around for more than a century, it's had a particularly big month in both the United States and Mexico.
Songs from two U.S. born artists broke into the top 10 on the charts in both countries. One of them, being Quien Se Anima by Gerardo Ortiz.
Ortiz was actually born in Pasadena, but has managed to make a career for himself both in the U.S. an Mexico. Justino Aguila, associate editor of Latin at Billboard joins Take Two to talk about the rise of Banda on both sides of the border, and where it originated.