Julio Preciado is a banda singer based in

Mazatlán Mazatlán () is a city in the Mexican list of states of Mexico, state of Sinaloa. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding , known as the Mazatlán Municipality. It is located on the Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast across from th ...

Sinaloa Sinaloa (), officially the (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities, and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales. It is located in northwest Mexic ...

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. His music is based on norteño songs. Los Cadetes de Linares was a notable source of inspiration. Sometimes, his music includes

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

s in addition to brass instrumentation. Preciado was previously the lead vocalist of Banda El Recodo. He has aired on a Mexican television show called '' Cantando Por Un Sueño,'' as well as sang with a

mariachi Mariachi (, , ) is a genre of regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico. The usual mariachi group today consists of as many as eight violins, two ...

band on the 2001 album ''Entre Amigos''.

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Mexican musicians Mexican male singers Banda musicians Singers from Sinaloa People from Mazatlán Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{mexico-musician-stub

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