Mario Quintero net worth
Mario Quintero Net Worth: Mario Quintero is a popular and controversial Mexican songwriter who has a net worth of $10 million. Born into a musical family, Mario Quintero grew up in the rural areas of the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, known for its prominent role in the international drug trade.
Mario Quintero rose to prominence in the mid-90s as the leader of the very successful norteño band los Tucanes de Tijuana. Quintero is known to have his greatest strength in writing narco-corrido-drug ballads—a modern form that glorifies smugglers and Drug lord. Narco-corridos have been around for decades, but Quintero’s albums contain some of the most explicit drug references, his stories of addicts’ adventures and their code of honor, even celebrating the joys of drugs themselves. Despite public dismay over the ethical content of Quintero’s songs, and a ban in Mexico for his more controversial work, los Tucanes de Tijuana became one of the best-selling norteño bands of the late ’90s. That’s not to say Quintero only wrote drug-related songs. He also wrote love songs and dance songs, which really helped expand the appeal of los Tucanes—especially the smash dances La Chona and El Tucanazo. More controversy arose when a 1997 magazine article appeared suggesting that the los Tucanes de Tijuana band was the favorite of the brothers Arellano Felix, Sinaloa’s most notorious “alleged” drug lord. Quintero took his stride and continued to do what his audience loved, winning Songwriter of the Year in his home country in 1998. Two years later, he shared the BMI Award for Latin Music Songwriter of the Year with several other hit producers.
