Follow the steps below to become a composer of your own corrido
Answers these questions in Spanish:
What's your date of birth?
Where were you born?
Where do you live now?
Are you from the countryside, small town or city?
How do you look physically?
What's your personality like?
What do you usually wear? Is there a piece of clothing that is signature to your style?
What are your hobbies?
Is there a heroic act you're proud of?
Take all of the answers from Step 1 and create a one parragraph story about your life. Feel free to add any additional information you feel could make the corrido more specific to your biography. For example, how do you celebrate life or where are you at this moment in life. Have this paragraph ready so you can use it in Step 3.
Now, to take it from an oral tradition to a contemporary one we'll be using ChatGPT to generate your corrido's lyrics. Click the button below to access the site. Once you are there follow these simple steps:
1. Type in: Create a corrido using this biography
2. Copy and paste the paragraph of your biography
3. You'll have a corrido ready for you
4. Come back to this page for the last step
Once you have your own corrido try and translate as much of the lyrics as possible to English withouth using a dictionary. After you're done go ahead and used a dictionary to translate the rest.
Get a couple of friends together and try adding music to it or go to an open mic reading and take a shot.
Gabino Barrera no entendía razones / andando en la borrachera / cargaba pistola / con seis cargadores / le daba gusto a cualquiera