Aliados De La Sierra

• Genre: Norteno

About

This band of young Duranguense heartthrobs got its start in 2007 when members of Brazeros Musical and Alacranes Musical defected from their respective groups and went for the gold together. They found it with two Gloria Trevi covers ("Te Amo" and "Con los Ojos Cerrados"), which kicked the group to the top of the charts in 2007. The band quickly became the regional music scene's flavor of the month. All the easily earned success made for some hard feelings with the members' previous groups, and two Aliados ended up in a fistfight with members of Alacranes Musical at a music conference. (Both groups insist they've cleared up their differences.) They released a live album just months after their debut, and returned to the studio in 2008 to work on their sophomore release, 2009's Solo por Ti.

- Sarah Bardeen