It all sounds very cool, right? But... Has this been the case forever? 

The answer is no. At first, this type of musicians were not very recognized we could even say that they were even belittled by the aristocracy. It was until the Porfiriato that these group of musicians made themselves known.

In fact, before this time they only wore normal peasant clothes and hats. 

By 1905 mariachis were considered a picturesque group worthy of presenting in forums, and that is why on Porfirio Díaz's birthday requested a mariachi group. In 1907, once again, President Diaz, marveled, invited them again to set the mood for a party in honor of the American secretary Elihu Root.

It is very curious, in fact, that something as ours and as Mexican as Mariachi has a name that does not come from an indigenous language, or from ancient Spanish, but from French.

There are those who say that the name “Mariachi” stayed because at the weddings at the time of the French intervention, the French soldiers began to refer to them as marriage - marriage in French - not only in the weddings they witnessed in Mexican lands, but to the music played in them. Finally, with time the name deformed from Marriach as we commonly know it, Mariachi.

The truth is that many studies reject this theory, as it is rare that before the arrival of the French there was no name or word that identified these musicians. Especially because the first record of them was at the time of the Colony and they were originally from Cocula, Jalisco.