Mexican Pop Music
The type of Pop music produced in Mexico is called Mexican pop, is a music genre particularly intended for teenagers and young adults.
Mexico is the country that exports the most entertainment in Spanish language. Mexican pop was limited to Latin America until the mid-1990s, when an interest towards this type of music increased after Luis Miguel's, Selena's Gloria Trevi's Thalía's and Paulina Rubio's debuts before the mainstream USA audience.
During the 1960s and 70s most of the pop music produced in Mexico consisted on Spanish-language versions of English-language rock-and-roll hits. Singers and musical groups like Angélica María, Johnny Laboriel, Alberto Vázquez, Enrique Guzmán or Los Teen Tops performed cover versions of songs by Elvis Presley, Paul Anka, Nancy Sinatra and others.
Read more about Mexican Pop Music: 1970s and 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, List of Some Mexican Pop Singers and Groups
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