The corrido is a traditional Mexican song style that has evolved over the past 200 years in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Corridos are all about storytelling.

Who invented corridos?

The first corridos that focus on drug smugglers—the narco comes from "narcotics"—have been dated by Juan Ramírez-Pimienta to the 1930s.

When were the first corridos made?

The oldest corrido of the United States arose in the late 1860s or early 1870s, “El corrido de Kiansis” or “El corrido de Kansas” was a song of the Chisholm Trail and so can be dated to the long cattle drives from Texas to the railroad stockyard in Abeline, Kansas that began in 1867 and ended as the railroads made ...