"It's been said there's nothing like a little family teamwork, and norteño act Los Tigres del Norte definitely exhibit the maxim. The brothers/cousin act hailing from Rosa Morada, Mexico, has become one of the most respectable and notorious Latin pop groups in the world, band members holding their morals above their fame.Pursuing a career in music was something Los Tigres del Norte felt they had to do. Driven with a goal of making money to get their father out of debt and laborious ranching, brothers Jorge, Hernán, Eduardo and Luis Hernández joined together with their cousin Oscar Lara to form a norteño band. Migrating into the U.S. in 1968, the group was dubbed ""little tigers"" from an immigration official when crossing the Mexico/California border; the nickname stuck, and the group became Los Tigres del Norte. Settling into San Jose, the group quickly signed with Fama Records in the early ‘70s. Trading in the acoustic sounds of typical norteño music for an electric style, Los Tigres modernized their music to fit the Mexican-American mold, breaking onto the scene with 1972's ""Contrabando y Traición."" The corrido was extremely popular, and it led the group to produce a string of songs discussing the drug trade and immigration.Quickly becoming a household act, Los Tigres switched labels to the prestigious Fonovisa Records in the 1980s, taking hits like Jaula de Oro (1984) straight to the top of the charts, winning their first Grammy Award in 1987 for Best Mexican-American Performance in Gracias America... Sin Fronteras. Continuing to court the Mexican-American audience, Los Tigres del Norte pumped out hits well throughout the ‘90s and ‘00s, eventually branching out into film. By the mid-2000s, Los Tigres had released over 50 albums, 500 songs and had made cameos in more than a dozen films, and this Tex-Mex favorite doesn't seem to be going anywhere soon."