Despite the band's immense popularity with SoCal's Mexican American community, says Flores, "I didn’t think that tickets would sell out so quickly." He surprised his mother with passes to the SoFi show, which he had ceremoniously hand-delivered to her by a Solís impersonator. “Los Bukis are the Mexican Beatles,” says Erik Flores, 27. Upon adding a second date in Los Angeles, Los Bukis sold it out once more at lightning speed - then tacked on additional stadium dates in Chicago, Houston, San Antonio, Arlington, Texas and Oakland. "Mexico was our birthplace," says Solís, "but California was the cradle.” Two-plus decades later, Hans Schafer, the head of Live Nation Latin, says that the band sold out the 70,000-seat SoFi Stadium within minutes - faster than the Rolling Stones sold tickets to their SoFi show in October. In August 1995, Los Bukis performed at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before 60,000 fans for what would have been their last-ever L.A. “It didn’t give us much in the beginning, but it’s where we recorded most of our records. is very representative of us,” says Marco Antonio Solís, Los Bukis’ famously coiffed lead singer and songwriter, now 61.
(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)Įarlier this summer, long-dormant Mexican superstars Los Bukis - whose ballads have soundtracked generations of Latino barbecues, weddings and Saturday cleaning sprees but who last performed some 25 years ago - shocked their fans by announcing a comeback tour, “Una Historia Cantada" (A History in Song). Los Bukis, from left, Roberto Guadarrama, Joel Solís, José Javier Solís, Marco Antonio Solís, José "Pepe" Guadarrama, Eusebio "El Chivo" Cortéz and Pedro Sánchez.