Rios made his recording debut in 2006 with the live album, “En Vivo! Dede Badiragato!” released on La Disco Records. Rios as ‘EL Komander’ fuses this unique style with banda influences, telling tales of his country’s drug barons and the harrowing violence and excesses of this lifestyle. Narocorridos, or Drug Ballad, is a north Mexican subgenre that blends traditional folk balladry with polka-based rhythms, dealing with the world of drug cartels and life on the US-Mexico border. Rios performed regularly at local venues, developing his unique style, quickly garnering interest of label scouts, who were impressed with his enthusiastic and rowdy songs that captured the growing momentum of the Latin alternative movement, or Narocorridos. Alfredo Rios was heavily involved with music from an early age, studying formally the traditional Mexican folk styles of cancan, banda and mariachi.
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