Sergio Maya Wins Binational Mexico Canta Competition With Patriotic Mariachi Song

Sergio Maya, a young mariachi instrumentalist from cardinal Mexico, was crowned the victor of the binational Mexico Canta contention successful the champion performer class connected Sunday nighttime (Oct. 5). Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Carmen María González, representing the cardinal portion of the country, took the apical prize successful the champion creation category.

The last of the contest, broadcast unrecorded connected Mexican nationalist tv from the Esperanza Iris Theater successful Mexico City, besides awarded Galia Siurob, from the borderline metropolis of Tijuana, with a peculiar notation from the assemblage of the Mexican Music Council. A full of 222,900 votes were formed by the tv audience, according to figures from the Mexican Government’s Ministry of Culture, which organized the contest.

The 3 winners volition person a declaration with transnational oregon autarkic grounds labels, announced Federal Secretary of Culture Claudia Curiel de Icaza.

The contest, the archetypal of its kind, is simply a taste inaugural promoted by the medication of Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who seeks to alteration the narratives of unit successful Mexican euphony arsenic an integral portion of her government’s argumentation for bid and against addiction.

“I wrote this opus inspired by the president’s words erstwhile she said we should make caller narratives,” Maya told the property aft the ceremony. The 21-year-old from the authorities of Hidalgo won implicit the assemblage with his opus “Quiero Soñar” (I Want to Dream), a cheerful mariachi-style tune afloat of patriotic sentiment. “The connection of gathering a antithetic Mexico was precise inspiring.”

Carmen María, a Mexican singer-songwriter who combines accepted and modern genres, won the creation class for her opus “Todo Para Nada” (All for Nothing). And Galia Siurob was awarded by the assemblage for her charisma, almighty voice, and heartfelt show of “De Menos a Menos” (From Less to Less).

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