Mexican mariachi musician Fernando Soto has lived in Germany for over twenty years. In this video, he talks to us about the cultural significance of his beloved mariachi music for Mexicans.

As it turns out the young Arturo Vega, Mexican emigré actor and artist in New York, lived below a girl who was seeing a young man named Douglas Glenn Colvin (who would come to be known as “Dee Dee Ramone”). The two visionaries got to talking…