El Mariachis
The mariachi is a traditional Mexican musical genre and is also called the musicians and musical ensembles who interpret it.
In Mexico almost all Celebrations are accompanied by mariachi music: Mother's Day, the Virgin of Guadalupe, national holidays, family reunions, engagement serenades, weddings and even funerals. On the Day of the Dead, of course, they could not be absent.
It is very common to hire these musical groups to interpret the favorite songs of the deceased. Many save for months to be able to pay the musicians and thus honor their ancestors.
Mariachi bands, Generally, they have a minimum of three members who play the guitar, the violin and the trumpet. But there are groups of many more where other instruments such as the flute, the harp or the accordion are added.
Among his repertoire are rancheras, corridos, sones jarochos, Mexican waltzes and also boleros, ballads and even cumbias. The traditional dress of modern mariachi is the charro suit. It consists of pants, jacket and vest, bow tie and hat. Generally it is all black or white, according to the festivity in which it will be used, although other colors and typical ornaments are also seen. And although in its beginnings the mariachi world was masculine,
Today there are many groups with female members, and even some composed entirely of women. The Day of the Dead, then, also has mariachi music
because, paraphrasing Marcus Aurelius, the famous Roman emperor, “if death smiles on us all,
all a man can do is smile back."