""I've been performing since the age of 8 years old in mariachi," Longoria said. "My father was a mariachi. My grandfather's a mariachi.""
""Gritos are done because you have this feeling of emotion. It's using a certain part of your voice," Longoria said. "It's not your chest. It's kind of up here in your head.""
""It's always going to be something very special that unites us, that helps us identify ourselves," Longoria said. "I want to open it up to the kids here because it's so easy to lose it.""
Grito is a vocal yell, shout, or cry used across Mexican culture, commonly heard in mariachi music, family gatherings, and quinceañeras. The grito serves as an emotional expression that can convey immense happiness or sadness and uses a resonant part of the voice situated in the head rather than the chest. The grito also holds political significance during the annual reenactment of the 1810 call to arms with cries of "¡Viva la Independencia!". The grito functions as a cultural identifier that unites people, and there are efforts to teach and preserve it for younger generations.
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