Lamento de un Soldado
Bigg Thyme 450 · Modesto, California
- Artist
- Santiago Mejia
- Title
- Lamento de un Soldado
- Release
- El bracero / Lamento de un soldado
- Label
- Bigg Thyme # 450
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Modesto, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Santiago Mejia
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Corrido · Tejano
Annotation — Mexican-American / Hispanic Songs
The song "Lamento de un soldado" ("Lament of the Soldier") (Bigg Thyme Records # 450), a corrido released in Modesta, California, USA, looked at the soldier's perspective.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "El Bracero" / "Lamento De Un Soldado", credited to Santiago Mejia con Los Buitres del Valle (Bigg Tyme Records 450/451, US), documented in both Discogs and the UCLA Strachwitz Frontera Collection, which tags the corrido "comica" and notes bracero-labour subject matter; the label's return address was a Modesto, California P.O. box - label geography only. No birth, death or based-in statement was located. Not the Colombian salsa musician of the same name. [Source: Discogs; UCLA Strachwitz Frontera Collection]