album rating: ★★★★☆
Genre: Corrido / norteño / banda sinaloense. Propiedad Privada ('Private Property') is a studio album by Los Tucanes de Tijuana, one of the most successful and enduring norteño groups in the history of Mexican popular music. The group was formed in 1983 and formalised in 1987 in Tijuana, Baja California, by musicians from Sinaloa who had settled in Baja California to pursue a musical career. Its leader, principal songwriter and vocalist is Mario Quintero Lara, who has written virtually the entire group's repertoire. Los Tucanes are the foremost practitioners of the corrido tumbado and narco-corrido tradition — narrative ballads in the norteño style that chronicle the lives, values, dangers and codes of the border world and, often, the drug trade. Propiedad Privada is their traditional corridos album of 2008, released alongside a separate romantic album (Soy Todo Tuyo). It contains thirteen corridos — all composed by Mario Quintero Lara — plus three bonus tracks in the banda sinaloense arrangement style. The tracks include the title song, 'Producto Garantizado', 'El Señor de la O', 'El Paisano', 'El 42', 'Alejandro Gamiño', 'El Yanky' and 'Alegre y Mujeriego'.
Label: Fonovisa Records (USA/Mexico), released 21 October 2008.
Producer: Not individually credited in publicly available sources. Recording directed by Mario Quintero Lara.
Recording studios: Hugo's Recording Studios, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico; Primo Sound Recording, San Diego, California, USA; Signature Sound, San Diego.
Critical reception: Propiedad Privada received an 80/100 score from AllMusic, which praised its consistent energy and Quintero Lara's command of the corrido form. The album was described as demonstrating Los Tucanes' position as 'indisputable precursors' of the corrido as a genre, a designation the group had earned through three decades of sustained productivity and quality. The album reached the top of sales charts in the USA for regional Mexican music in January 2009.
Commercial success: Propiedad Privada was certified platinum for sales exceeding 100,000 units. According to the group's official discography, it reached number 1 on the regional Mexican album sales charts in the USA in January 2009, as registered by Latin Monitor. Los Tucanes de Tijuana have sold more than 25 million albums worldwide and hold 34 gold and 30 platinum records. In 2019, they became the first norteño music group to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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