Wall Street Journalのインスタグラム(wsj) - 4月26日 07時13分

In 1968, "the man in black" Johnny Cash made music history when he recorded a live performance for inmates at Folsom State Prison in California. Fifty years later, five men in black—the band @lostigresdelnorte—commemorated Mr. Cash's concert with one of their own, in Spanish. "We don't want people to forget about them," Jorge Hernández, the group's 64-year-old lead vocalist and accordion player, said of the inmates, before he, his three brothers and a cousin—all wearing black in tribute to Mr. Cash—took the stage on the prison yard. "I feel like I am with them because they are my blood." Los Tigres del Norte, known for its norteño folk music, was interested in performing at Folsom in part because of the large increase in Latino incarcerations, the band members said. Latinos total 43% of the 130,000 inmates in the California penal system, up from 34% in 1998, including many who are Mexican immigrants like the band members themselves. The San Jose, Calif.-based group, originally from Mexico, started out in 1968 in the U.S. by playing before inmates at a state prison in Soledad, Calif.

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