<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Verdana" LANG="0">Los Tigres del Norte did not wear Mariachi suits nor played mariachi music. Their music was called, by one of them, Tex-Mex polka and it did sound polka-like.<BR>
Unlike mariachi groups they did not have trumpets, or violins, or any of the instruments that mariachi play. The instruments of the Tigres were pretty much those electrified instruments used by rock groups, plus an accordion.<BR>
Black Bart was a character in old western stories and cowboy movies. He always wore black, western hat and all, and hung out in bars gating into all sorts of adventurous trouble.<BR>
I still don't know where the group "La Oreja de VanGogh", (Van Gogh's Ear), comes from, apparently it is a European rock group from Spain of some renown.<BR>
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