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Belle Ortiz died at the age of 90 surrounded by family, love, and mariachi music. The educator and musical icon leaves a generational impact on mariachi music in San Antonio and across the world.
Nicole Lillingston is a 16-year-old mariachi student from San Fernando, CA. She is one of hundreds of students visiting New Mexico for the Mariachi Spectacular conference.
In two weeks if you apply yourself. you can look at your lack of situation as a negative. oh, i don t have any money. i m selling my body to science. - yeah, yeah, yeah. - i m never gonna get anywhere. there aren t any other latins in the business. no one s even come out of texas. - right, right. - what chance do i have? you don t see it that way. you look at it the other way. like, i m gonna go make this. maybe i can sell it and double my money. maybe if i can t, at least i know i tried. - all in all, robert has brought this town more than 1.5 billion from his films. and that s not even counting the tv shows he s produced. - people will sometimes go to hollywood and find that it s not for them. especially, you know, latinos. - right, right. - i never even bothered to go, i figured i didn t fit in there, but because i made mariachi out of my apartment, and when they bought it, i thought, maybe i can stay home, where my inspiration and my family and everything is. - in 2000, robe
Seven? you got 7,000 right now i can borrow? that s a lot of money to a kid in college. - right, right. - i had to go do a medical research study to make money in one month to go do that. - you became a guinea pig for cash. - i was a guinea pig for cash. - yeah. - i wrote it over that month that i was in that hospital. i was writing leisurely, you know. it s like, hey, i m getting paid to write, i kept telling myself. [john laughs] and my producer and star of that film, carlos gallardo, who is the mariachi, he sold some land for the other half, so i only had to come up with half of it. and we went in and did it together, thinking we could sell it for hopefully 10,000 or 15,000. - right, right. that s incredible, man. 15,000? get this: el mariachi made over 2 million in the box office, and holds the guinness world record as the lowest-budgeted film to gross a million in theaters. - and what blew people away was the story of how it was made, that somebody with no money, no contacts,