Biography

Mariachi Perla De Occidente
Effective period / Period of releases: 1958 - 1981
Members: Rigoberto Alfaro, Jesús Rodriguez de Hijar, Marcelino Ortega
Mexican mariachi led by Marcelino Ortega, formed in 1942 in Mexico city from the Mariachi Los Diablos Rojos, disbanded in 1994, they supported such singers as Lucha Reyes, Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Matilde Sánchez, and lately Amalia Hernández’s Ballet Folklórico de México