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Tigres del Norte bring their ballads of migration to Boston

Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Their songs often deal with the personal struggles of migration, like 'Jaula de Oro' ('Golden Cage') in which an immigrant father bemoans his family's assimilation. But the group also see themselves as representatives for their community, and they campaigned with Kamala Harris during the 2024 election. 'We always support what we think is best for our people here in the US,' says Hernández. Advertisement The members of Los Tigres acknowledge that some of their fans were part of last year's Advertisement 'We made our decision. Other people made their decisions to do whatever they want to do, and that's their right,' says founding member Jorge Hernández, Luis's older brother, in a Zoom interview from his Northern California home. Framed by his collection of accordions on a shelf in the background, he adds that 'I hope this new president and this new administration will change their minds and help our community.' In the meantime, Los Tigres show no sign of abandoning their tradition of musical social commentary. Their newest song and video, the corrido ' 'The game La Lotería is part of our culture in Mexico,' explains Jorge. 'So we took the different personalities from the game and associate them with what's going on right now, the sociopolitical story of what is happening in Latin America.' The song also details government corruption that allows drug trafficking to flourish. Los Tigres are considered the modern godfathers of the drug trafficking ballads known as Just one example of Los Tigres's impact on popular culture is that their songs inspired Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte. In return, the band made Advertisement Los Tigres have occasionally gotten fined by Mexican authorities after performing songs like 'La 'Reina del Sur' at their concerts. But those incidents were minor controversies compared to the one Luis says Los Tigres draw a line between singing about cartels and idolizing them. 'We are trying to tell these stories to the public,' he explains. 'We're not trying to be like the characters that we sing about. We sing about the problems that are out there every day. We cannot deny that we have these problems. But we have to be conscious about not glamorizing these characters or even trying to imitate those characters that we sing about.' Even as younger regional Mexican artists take the sound into new lyrical and musical territories, Los Tigres remain as busy as ever. The night after their Boston show the band will make its Madison Square Garden debut. They recently toured in Spain and the UK, and Luis says they'd like to go to Brazil, where, thanks to streaming tracking, they've discovered their songs are the soundtracks at rodeos. Advertisement Before they started playing the Wang, Los Tigres were an annual attraction at the Revere dancehall now called the Jorge says that making the jump to large theatres and arenas means Los Tigres have had to shift from their prior live format which found them simply getting on stage and taking requests all night. 'Now we have to have a setlist,' he says, 'because we just have a few hours and we have recorded more than 1000 songs already.' LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE The Boch Center Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St., Boston. May 23 at 8:00 p.m. Noah Schaffer can be reached at .