Mariachi was heavily involved in cultural promotion as a way to create a unified Mexican identity after the end of the Mexican Revolution. One of these efforts was the promotion of mariachi as an international symbol of Mexican identity, first with radio and sound recordings and later with films. Mexico built a nationwide radio broadcasting network in the 1920s such as XEB and XEW, which began broadcasting mariachi music as a media production, rather than as a music for social events. This music was already being modified in part due to the advent of sound recording. For example, most son jaliscense
Mariachi los Camperos Los Camperos de Nati Cano is currently nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Album. They were also featured on Smithsonian Folkways' "Raíces Latinas: Smithsonian Folkways Latino Roots Collection" in 2002. They shared a 2005 Best Musical Album for Children Grammy for "cellabration!, A tribute to Ella Jenkins". Mariachi los Camperos Mariachi los Camperos de Nati Cano is a Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles-based mariachi ensemble which was formerly led by Natividad "Nati" Cano. In 1950, Nati Cano joined a mariachi band in the city of Mexicali, Baja California, as an arranger. Cano was younger than any of