Jaime Lopez

Juan Jaime López Camacho (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, January 21, 1954), known as Jaime López, is a composer, singer, and dubbing actor Mexican. He has been a controversial figure due to his rebellious attitude and outside of groups or political positions. His most popular song is "Chilanga Banda", which was also performed by Café Tacvba.

Biographical note

Jaime López was born, according to what he himself wrote, "in a barracks (...) I come from the old barracks of the Mexican Army", where he learned to play the guitar with "Sergeant Chanona, there by the corrals." At the age of 16, he traveled to Mexico City, where he studied high school (at high school 5) and entered the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he only studied half a semester and graduated. He dedicated himself to the interpretation of songs that he himself composed. "I came to go to high school like a good champion / and yes I did but outside of the classroom," says his autobiographical version, in the Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode classic, titled "I have never taken with the blackboard".^{[citation required]}

As a composer, his lyrical proposals are intelligent and uninhibited, outside the commercial sphere of radio and television, in which the daily life of Mexico City society is described and denounced, as well as love and the heartbreak narrated in a funny way using word games with popular and street language, but without leaving aside the seriousness of poetry. He is considered a very important pillar of Mexican rock, although he has also created tropical, ranchero, blues and bolero songs. ^{[ citation needed ]}

On August 16, 1985, he participated in the OTI Festival with the song Blue demon blues -one of the first Mexican compositions dedicated to wrestling-, a tribute piece to the wrestler Blue Demon (a whom the composer himself invited, but was denied entry) with which he obtained the last place. According to the singer, the athlete would later thank him for the gesture and the composition. Jaime's reference to two of the television icons of that time was fundamental to obtaining the last place, making a mention of Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas' and finish the song with the phrase: 'Animo Blue. Let's go 'here, there is no worse fight than Lucha Villa'.^{[citation required]}

During the next few years, he had dealings with the recording industry, which earned him criticism from his followers, who considered it inappropriate. The anger of a fan came to the point that outside the theater-bar El Cuervo, in Coyoacán, a sign appeared around those years that read: "Jaime López changes to Pepsi". The truth is that this contact produced a magnificent album: Jaime López (1989), recorded in New York City.^{[citation required]}

Among his most popular songs are "Primera calle de la Soledad", "Corazón de cacto", "Sácalo", "Muriendo de thirst", "Chilanga banda", "In the full extent of the word love", "I feel good but I feel bad", " From my motorcycle", "Oh, what a pain to live!", "On the side of the road", "Hobo wagon", &# 34;She packed her steak,", "Your curse" and "El mequetrefe". Cecilia Toussaint has performed and popularized the songs "Sácalo", "Corazón de cacto" and "I feel good, but I feel bad.^{[citation needed]}

Among his little-known works with other musicians, the highlights are "Navegabas", with Eblen Macari, for the album Glaciares/4 Canciones de Eblen Macari, and "Piel of ice", included in the album Caricia Digital, by Chac Mool.

"Chilanga Banda"

"Chilanga Banda" is a song that Jaime López composed around 1995 and performed with José Manuel Aguilera, from the group La Barranca, included in the experimental album Odio Fonky, tomas de buró, recorded by both of them at home in an apartment from the Del Valle neighborhood of Mexico City. The album was praised by the specialized press and influenced the musical panorama of Mexico, due to its originality. The lyrics of the song make intense use of the slang of Mexico City and bring together in a couple of stanzas a large number of idioms with the phoneme "ch". The word "chilango" is a colloquial name from Mexico City, and "banda" is a term used informally to refer to a group of friends. Rhythmically, the song is based on United States rap. It was re-released in 1996 by Café Tacvba, and included on the album Avalancha de Hits.

"Already, chango chilango,

What a chamba shave you,

not checa walk from tacuche

with the puddle,

Like a chinche.

more piggy than fayuca

with fusca and cachiporra

It's time for you to walk in the wild.

I'd better get a chela.

and chance plug a shave

By chafirete,

I'm left with pacifier and pachanga.

If I hit the chip,

The chota is not very molacha

Smashing those who machucan

He's going to bite his heel.

At night I fall into the gut,

- don't manches- says the changa,

to the hut of the teporocho

In the nut, pass the pacha.

Pachucos, cholos and chundos,

Chichifos and malaphachas,

Here the chompiras rifan,

and dance tibiri-tobara

My old man kills the bacha

and sing the cockroach

his choya lives in puppies

Chemo, churro and chickpeas.

Transfer from top to bottom

There goes the gang chilanga

Chin-chín if they remind me

and they're ripped off

Jaime Lopez. Chilanga Banda.

Work

Discography

• Roberto and Jaime, Meetings with Emilia, LP and cassette (Foton and Editions Pentagram, 1980); CD reissue (Editions Pentagram, 1990)
• The General Constant(Discos Roquefón, 1980)
• Bonzo(45 r.p.m.) (Discos Lunátic, 1982)
• CenzontleSimple (45 r.p.m.) (Unicornio/Penelope, 1983)
• The First Street of Soledad, LP (RCA Victor, 1985); reissued CD (Ilusions Port Baghdad, 1993)
• Blue Demon Blues(RCA Victor, 1985)
• What's up, that one?, LP (IM, 1987)
• Jaime López, LP, cassette and CD (BMG Ariola, 1989)
• Unprofitable trade (from 1980 to 1985)(Ilusions Puerto Baghdad, 1992)
• 15 demos from 88 to 91(Ilusions Puerto Baghdad, 1992)
• Unpluged(Spartakus, 1998)
• Nordaka(Prodisc, 1999)
• Jaime López and his Hotel Garage - Grande Sexi Tos, CD (2006)
• Airing, CD (independent, Mexico, 2007)
• For the slippers, CD (Fonarte Latino, Mexico, 2008)
• Women and Ego, CD (Fonarte Latino, Mexico, 2011)
• Fool words, CD (Fonarte Latino, Mexico, 2014)
• Jaime López and his Hotel Garage - Di no a la Yoga, CD (Fonarte Latino, Mexico, 2014)

In collaboration

• Ciudad de Ciegos (OST), CD (Ediciones Pentagrama, 1991); with José Elorza
• Hate Fonky, buro shots, CD (1994); reissue CD (Fonarte Latino, 2006); with José Manuel Aguilera.
• Animals (OST), (1995); with Cecilia Toussaint and Oscar Chávez
• And My Voice That Makes, CD (Discos Pueblo, 2002); with Maru Enríquez
• Great Quinqué, CD (Discos Pueblo, 2003); with Maru Enriquez
• No More Heroes Please: Laptops, CD (Fonarte Latino, 2006); with José Manuel Aguilera
• Forced Landing, CD (Intolerance Discs, 2012); with Salev Setra
• Diurnal Moonwith Salev Setra

Bibliography

• Lopez, Jaime. Rolando Trokas, The intergalactic trailer - a live musical radionovela for singer and announcer - (the libretto) . Editorial Quinqué, 1992. ISBN 968-6245-08-1
• López, Jaime (ideas y texto), Ehrenberg, Felipe (ilustraciones), Hernández, Lourdes (adaptación). Rolando Trokas, The intergalactic trailer. Graphic novel (in comic form), originally published monthly in the journal of detective literature Biombo Negro between 1993 and 1994.
• Lopez, Jaime. Lyric. Editions Cal and Arena, 1997.
• Lopez, Jaime. Prologue of the poem book “Corazón minated. Declaration by Pascual Reyes. Rhythm & Books Editions. 2009.