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Updated May 13, 2008 These are the songs our grandparents learned as children here in the Southwest United States. The songs and games in the Lucerito's Music collection represent children's music from New Mexico and California gathered since 1966 from relatives, friends, neighbors, musicians, teachers and old music books. Most of the songs are over 100 years old and are currently being sung by Spanish speaking children throughout the Spanish speaking world. I suspect that most of the songs and games came with the Spanish conquistadors as early as 1492. The songs and games recorded by Stanley A. Lucero are in use in many bilingual and ESL classrooms throughout the Southwest. They are excellent gifts for the children and grandchildren in your life. The songs and games have been recorded on the following: Canciones Para Niños (1973); Cancionero Infantíl (1977); Juegos y Diversiones (1977); Canciones De Lagos (1984); Turquoise (1995); The Best Of Stanley A. Lucero (1998); Dos Voces Un Espíritu (1999) with Linda Quiroz from Odessa, Texas; Fiestas y Cuento-Cantos, 2001 Our new CD - Marimba Lucero Volume 1 is now available. This cd includes mambos, boleros, and English country songs. Click here to order by mail. School Purchase Orders accepted!
The song Frijolitos pintos was written and recorded by Linda Escobar at the age of eight. Thank you for this beautiful song! I recorded Frijolitos pintos in 1973 on Canciones para ninos and rerecorded the song on the Dos voces CD in 1999. COMING SOON: Mas cuentos y cantos - a new recording of children's stories and songs in Spanish. Titles will include: Las partes del insecto, Hombrecito de jengibre, Gallinita Roja, Pronto iremos al zoológico and Metzli [by Yolanda M Lucero], Los caballitos [by Marcia Fernandez], La manzanita [by Carol Perkins] and many more. CD is about halfway recorded.
UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS 16th ANNUAL NATIONAL TWO-WAY CONFERENCE. June 30-July 3, 2008 in Newport Beach, CA LA COSECHA 2008. November 12-15, 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For information about previous presentations, see Calendar of Activities.
A CONFERENCE DREAM
Stanley loves to sing with children in the classrooms. He also performs
concerts for parents with their children, sings with children in their
classrooms and conducts Children's Music in Spanish workshops for school
staff. Many of you have attended his
music workshops at CABE and AMAE Conferences in
California in addition to the COSECHA Conferences in New Mexico. I can come to your school and do mini assemblies, parent/child concerts or staff workshops! Please contact us if you are interested in having Stanley and/or Yolanda come to your conference or your school to do workshops, classroom presentations or parent/children concerts. Mr. Lucero's FLYER. Pictures of Stanley. Resume June 2007
MARIMBA LUCERO
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I would like to attend, or help organize, a conference
dedicated to Children's Music in Spanish where all of the workshops
are conducted by recording artists, composers of children's music,
teachers who use music in Spanish in their classrooms and other
individuals dedicated to maintaining and preserving the Spanish songs and
games of our cultural heritage. Anybody interested? Here is a 
Stanley A. Lucero, a Manito from New Mexico, was born in Leadville, Colorado and
attended more than twenty-five schools in Colorado and New Mexico as a child. Mr. Lucero
has been teaching since 1974 in the San Joaquin Valley in California. He has an Elementary
Teaching Credential in Music and Spanish, a Bilingual Certificate of Competence in
Spanish, a Learning Handicapped Credential and a Masters in Bilingual Education. He is
well known for his soft voice and artistic musical presentations. As of June 12, 2007, Stanley is retired after working thirty and a half years as a bilingual teacher. 
Yolanda M. Lucero, a
Tejana, was born in Donna, Texas. She attended schools in
Parlier, California. Mrs. Lucero has been teaching since 1988 in the San Joaquin Valley in
California. She has a Bilingual Cross-Cultural Specialist Credential with a Spanish
Emphasis and a Bachelor's in Liberal Arts and is currently working on her
Master's in Reading. Yolanda is an excellent bilingual storyteller who has
written many of the songs found in our newest CD Mas Cuentos y Cantos including
Gallinita Roja, and Hombrecito de 
Jengibre.
Yolanda is currently working at Ann 
Stanley also performs with Marimba Lucero for family, community and private events with Nora
Guillen on marimba and vocals and Pedro Lucero on the stand up bass (tololochi).
Occasionally they are joined by up to
four other guest musicians at special events. For more information, click