Ariel Camacho, the shooting star who inspired the modern corrido

Ariel Camacho, the shooting star who inspired the modern corrido

They almost had to force Ariel Camacho to wear a cowboy hat. It was 2012 and the singer had a meeting in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, with manager and producer Jaime González, the father of today’s música norteña heartthrob Christian Nodal. “He was with two other guys, and they sang for me a corrido and a [romantic] song and that was enough for me,” González said in a Billboard interview published a few days ago. He signed the performer to his team and …