Formed in Tijuana in 1983 around vocalist Guadalupe "Lupe" Quintero and bajo sexto player Mariano Quintero — Sinaloa transplants who got their start playing corridos table-to-table in a Tijuana restaurant — Los Incomparables de Tijuana became one of the earliest groups to sing what would later be labeled narcocorrido, chronicling border and cartel figures in a plain, campesino style over roughly forty albums. The brothers also mentored the next generation directly: Mariano gave his nephew Mario Quintero Lara his first bajo sexto and taught him to write corridos, seeding what became Los Tucanes de Tijuana.

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1996

El Número UnoLos Incomparables de Tijuana