Ángel Ortiz, the Restless Mariachi Who Innovates in the Genre with ‘Anime’ and Video Games

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Ángel Ortiz remembers sitting before his computer to record when he was about 15 years old. “With how little he knew, he made recordings. He intended to share it [...] I’m talking about 20 years ago, social networks in Mexico weren’t so common,” he says on the other side of the screen. Those first scores were those that led him to share versions of band and music in English on his networks, a concern that has led him to expand the—sometimes unmo…