You knew this was coming, one day or the other.

After being on this nostalgic trip to Mexico, and having a long drunken talk with my father, here are the five basic mariachi singers, that, at least me and my father, agree you should take a look at.

And also, they will make you sound super smart and awesome at your cinco de mayo party. Or celebrating your escape from kidnappers.

In no respective order.

1. Jose Alfredo Jimenez

Perhaps the best singer-songwriter of the Mariachi genre. Most of his songs are about failure in love, and teavels around Mexico. Listened best when piss-emotional drunk

For you gringo ear, It would sound like  If Charles Bukowski and Kurt Cubain had a bastard son and abandoned him in Guanjuato, Mexico.

2. Pedro Infante

The man. the legend. The idol of the poor, and the diamond to the rich.  The only mariachi singer that would reach the super stardom by singing on his own movies, and having an awesome charm on screen.

The American parallel would most likely be Buddy Holly. (In the sense that both died in the top of their careers on an airplane accident.)

3.Javier Solis

While his lyrics weren’t the brightest or the most romantic, he had such a sweet, almost opera sounding voice.

He is the Freddie Mercury of Mariachi Music.

4. Vicente Fernandez

He simply is the king. The last living legend of Mexican Music. No more words needed.