The opening
Corrido, in Spanish
Pongan atención, señores, lo que les voy a contar, en Napa, en el noventa y ocho, Ramiro empezó a luchar. Con una troca prestada y sus manos pa' trabajar, hoy tiene su propio taller y una familia que cuidar.
A custom corrido about your life
Your dad crossed with one suitcase and built something. Your grandma raised six kids and fed half the block. Nobody wrote it down, and the people who remember are getting older. A corrido is how stories like that get kept. Tell us yours and we'll make it one.
What makes it a corrido
The U.S. National Park Service describes the corrido as "a traditional Mexican narrative ballad with a particular structure" that "has evolved over the past 200 years." The classic shape, from that same article: the singer calls the listeners in, then names the place, the time and the main character. The story comes next. It ends with the main character's farewell, then the singer's.
Our take: that's why a corrido fits a real life so well. It asks for the details most songs skip, like the town, the year and the name people actually called him.
What we need from you
Type it in the form, about five minutes, or send a voice memo telling it your way.
Who and what people call them
Don Chuy, La Güera, Pops. The nickname is half the song.
Where and when it starts
The rancho, the town, the street, the year everything changed.
The hard part
What they went through, and what they did about it.
Where they are now, and the goodbye
The family, the business, the message you want sung at the end.
What the opening could sound like
The farewell
Corrido, in Spanish
Ya con esta me despido, ya les canté su verdad, el corrido de Ramiro, orgullo de su ciudad.
Written for this page. Ramiro is a made-up name. Yours will use your real names, places and years.
The style is yours to pick
Traditional corrido, corrido tumbado, norteño or banda. In Spanish, English, or both in one song. People order them for a dad's birthday, for a tribute to someone who's gone, for the family's roots, for something a person overcame, or for a business that started with nothing.
How it gets made
Your lyrics are written from what you tell us, in the language you choose, by someone who speaks it. The music is produced with modern AI tools, then a real person shapes it, checks every line, and finishes it. It takes about 4–8 days. You get a 3–4 minute song as an MP3 by email, yours to keep and play at the party.
Launch price: One song is $47. Two are $87, three are $127. You pay after you send your story, and if we can't make your song, you get a full refund. See pricing.
Questions
Can I hear a corrido you made before I order?
Not on the site yet. Our corrido demo isn't posted; the demo that's up now is hip-hop and salsa, on the home page. Email alejandro@ojedaworks.com and ask, and we'll tell you straight what we can send you.
Can a corrido be in English?
Yes. Spanish, English, or both in one song. Lyrics are written in the language you choose by someone who speaks it, not translated by software.
Does the story have to be big or dramatic?
No. A corrido can be about the man who fixed half the trucks on his street, or the mom who ran the kitchen for thirty years. If it mattered to your family, it's big enough for a corrido.