LUCERITO'S MUSIC

Featuring children's music in Spanish

Stanley A. & Yolanda M. Lucero. Owners, Lucerito's Music.  26963 Merril Ave., Madera, CA 93638 Webpage: www.lucerito.net  Email: Lucerito's Music

Lucerito's Music Collection

Updated April 30, 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.

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Best CD

Dos voces CD

Turquoise CD

Turquoise Cassette

Fiestas CD

Fiestas Cassette

Marimba CD

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

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 list of some of the musicians I know about who have recorded children's music in Spanish.

 

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. 

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 FLYERPictures of Stanley.   Resume June 2007

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 Leavenworth as a 2 Way Kinder Teacher.  She also works for the California Reading and Literature Project out of C.S.U. Fresno where she works as a Professional Development Specialist focusing on Spanish Reading and Writing Skills. Yolanda does workshops for teachers in Read Aloud Strategies and Parent Involvement as well as classroom management and theme activities.  Working as a part time consultant with Houghton Mifflin Lectura has helped her develop many special projects in her own classroom that make her a great source for program support materials.

 

MARIMBA LUCERO

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 Marimba LuceroListen to Las Mañanitas (Sung by Stanley A. Lucero, Nora Guillén, Rebecca Martinez, and Martha Rodriguez. Stanley is on lead guitar, Rebecca is on rhythm guitar and accordion)  Listen to El Mosquito Medley (Nora Guillén on marimba, Rebecca Martinez on rhythm guitar, Stanley A. Lucero on lead guitar and bass, and Francisco Mejia on drums.) 

 

Our new CD is available now!  MARIMBA LUCERO VOL 1

Buy Marimba CD now.

 

 

LYRICS TO SONGS: Lucerito's Music Lyrics 4 pages [pdf] - Lucerito's Music Lyrics 14 pages [pdf] - Lyrics

LINKS FOR LUCERITO'S MUSIC: Email - Recordings - Order Form - Canciones para niños - Cancionero infantil - Canciones de Lagos - Juegos y diversiones - Turquoise - Best of Stanley Lucero - Dos Voces - Fiestas y cuento-cantos  - Refund Policy - Directions for El juego del calentamiento

LINKS FOR MUSIC RESOURCES: Canciones de Navidad - Calendar of Activities - Bibliography - Las mañanitas - Carro Ford - Links to other webpages - Why use music from the native language and home culture - Musicians who have recorded children's music in Spanish - Classroom Themes

LINKS FOR LINDA QUIROZ: Linda Quiroz Info - Linda Quiroz's Webpage  

LINK TO Marimba Lucero

YOLANDA'S GENEALOGYLopez Ancestors

YOLANDA'S GENEALOGY PICTURES: Casimiro Lopez - Salvador Cavazos/San Juanita Anzaldua - Preciliana Cavazos/Jesus Ramon Munoz - Dionisio Munoz/Francisca Flores

STANLEY'S GENEALOGY: Ancestors of Stanley A Lucero -Juan Domingo Romero - Antonio Mascarenas - Julian Martin -Trampas- El pueblecito de mecate- Genealogy Links - Miguel de Godoy

STANLEY'S GENEALOGY PICTURES: Maria Dolores Quintana - Juan Estevan Quintana - Manuel de Atocha Quintana - Jose de Gracia Fresquiz/Maria Vicenta Vigil - Jose de Gracia Lucero/ Celcita Fresquez

DNA:  Y-DNA haplogroup G2; MtDNA haplogroup A.  Registered with Family Tree DNA and the New Mexico DNA Project.

COPIES OF HANDOUTS:  Bilingual Quotes - I Want My Children to be Truly Bilingual - I Want My Children to be Truly Bilingual [pdf] - 2-Way Genealogy Classroom Ideas - Basic Bilingual Education Concepts

LINKS FOR FRESNO/MADERA CABE CASBE CHAPTER:  Chapter Website - Lau Vs. Nichols

BILINGUAL SPECIAL EDUCATION LINKS:  Identify academic and language proficiency weaknesses in both languages - Council for Exceptional Children - Music and disabilites - Leonard Baca, EdD