Ranchera
Ranchera is a traditional Mexican song style about love, pride, the countryside and heartbreak, usually sung with great force over a mariachi band.
The songs come in waltz, march or slow bolero rhythms, with violins, trumpets and guitars behind a solo singer, and are often punctuated by shouted cries called gritos. Ranchera dates to before the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s and became a symbol of national identity afterwards, helped by the films of singers such as Pedro Infante. Its focus on one dramatic lead voice sets it apart from the story-led corrido.
Artists it is known for: José Alfredo Jiménez, Vicente Fernández, Pedro Infante, Lola Beltrán.
- Family
- Regional Mexican
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Mexico, before the 1910s
- Also called
- canción ranchera, rancheras
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have ranchera among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Ranchera artists
Luis Miguel
José José
Banda MS de Sergio Lizárraga
Juan Gabriel
Christian Nodal
Los Tigres Del Norte
Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda
Vicente Fernández
Joan Sebastian
Calibre 50
The ranchera artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.