"Long live rock and roll"

CITY OF MEXICO

Few people in the Mexican music scene can boast of taking most of their lives rock-and-roll and Alex Lora is one of those lucky people who have lived and crossed rock and roll, and who also witnessed social changes that found immortality in the lyrics of the Mexican composer.

Lora, with El Tri celebrates 50 years of existence in rock and roll in October. A half-century in which his songs became the banner of thousands of followers who found in them a way to express what they felt.

I would never have thought that I would do 50 years or 50 albums, but thank God the race identified with my songs and the affection that they have for my songs and for me .. it's something that goes beyond, that I do not have anything to pay, I never pretend to pretend, "says Lora, guitar in hand, In an interview with Excelsior .

When the spirit of rock and roll seized Lora, he was a teenage high school student who grew up in Mexico City.

Aware of what was happening in his environment, but he did not understand the transcendence of the facts, too small to be in the steps, but impetuous enough to express himself through the rock.

"I remember the year of the repression, the 68 at Tlatelolco. Thousands of corpses have thrown themselves, thousands of soldiers and grenadiers, but this has already happened and time has erased, they were only tears in the rain, "comments Tears in the rain theme of the album Another of the successes of El Tri .

"For some reason, the beginning of the rock and roll of this server took place on October 12 1968, when the Olympic Games began in Mexico, 10 days later of the Tlatelolco massacre. Really for us who were partly yes, we were in the wave of the strike, in high school, waiting for the joints out of the class. We went to a fee-paying school at Fray Juan de Zumárraga and we were waiting for the joints to accompany us, but that coincided with the fact that we started singing on that date at the beginning of the Olympic Games, it was not not something we were preparing with that

Now we have made birthdays and celebrated with the Tlaltelolco People's High School group which is also 50 years old like us, they are from October 2nd that's 'forget' not & # 39; and we from the 12th, the day of the race rockanrolera We are aware of what was and what was, but at that time we were little guys who wanted to rock and that he did not do it. There was no class. Over time, we understood and understood what happened. In 1968, many structures that already existed were changed and society and life began to be viewed in a different way, "recalled Lora, who also wrote at the time Amor Oct. 2 October 12th became the date on which El Tri – before Three Souls In My Mind – made its first presentation, a party at Javier Bay, first representative, who played Lora and the company at of a celebration of the Cherokees football team of the Universidad Iberoamericana, guided by Tomás Bay, brother of whom Lora considers until today his "defender"

He also played a group of children from Ibero who called himself Pop Music Team (Jorge Berry and Julio Vigueras), that is why he was played that day and was coincided with the moment when the Olympic Games were inaugurated.

For Lora, the last 50 years have been the pro he had the maximum since the age of 15 and his first touch was the music and everything that has happened since then.

"When I started climbing 50 years ago, I was not thinking of when I was going to do it. The number of records that I was going to record, and what I was going to do. They were going to give me the Medal of Merit, nor the Medal of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega that they gave to Professor Vargas Llosa, that they were going to make me a monkey at the Wax Museum from Mexico City, or to put a statue in Guadalajara and another in Los Angeles or give me the Grammy to Musical Excellence, or that I will be invited to carry the Olympic torch … I just said 'I'm worthy of mothers and live rock roll & # 39 ;.

After 50 years, I continue to earn mothers and live rock and roll.I have never tried anything, actually when I started rock'n'roll in 1968, with these pieces, my mom said to me, "Why do not you do better to practice a sport?" and told him that rock and roll was my favorite sport … from where l "Phrase" Rock and roll is a sport, practice it, "he concludes.

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