He really does kind of sound like somebody singing in the shower. GALINDO: Chalino did not have a trained voice. Sanchez spun tales of folk heroes who were sometimes drug lords. ![]() ![]() SHAPIRO: That's Erick Galindo, one of the hosts of the podcast "Idolo: The Ballad Of Chalino Sánchez." This singer-songwriter was basically responsible for popularizing an entire musical subgenre, the narcocorrido. (SOUNDBITE OF PODCAST, "IDOLO: THE BALLAD OF CHALINO SANCHEZ")ĮRICK GALINDO: At age 31, the self-made music mogul, rumored cartel hitman, acclaimed singer-songwriter and beloved father of two is dead, and the mystery surrounding this ghastly murder is about to turn this poor immigrant from a tiny Mexican pueblo into the most famous Mexican American singing outlaw that ever lived. But there's much more to his story, as a new podcast explores. ![]() Many musicians became all the more famous after they died young, and that's true of Chalino Sánchez.
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