Wave Wire Services
HOLLYWOOD — A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled July 16 honoring the regional Mexican band Intocable for a career that has included 13 chart-topping albums and two Grammy Awards.
Band co-founder Ricardo Muñoz, Nir Seroussi, president of Interscope Capitol Miami, and songwriter-producer Edgar Barrera spoke at the ceremony at 7083 Hollywood Blvd., about one block east of La Brea Avenue.
“Thank you for this experience and for putting us here,” Muñoz said in Spanish during the ceremony.
He expressed gratitude to family members, the organization’s dedicated team and its loyal supporters.
“Oh, and the most important ones — our composers, who give us their songs and their works, because everything begins with a song,” Muñoz said.
“They didn’t just build a legacy, they showed the world what música Mexicana could be,” Seroussi said. “Today, so many of those artists are standing on the path that Intocable created.”
Formed in 1993 by Muñoz and his friend René Martínez in the small border town of Zapata, Texas, Intocable would become known for revolutionizing Latin music, blending Tejano, Norteño, pop, rock, and cumbia into a groundbreaking sound.
Its name comes from the Spanish word for untouchable.
Intocable’s third album, “Otro Mundo,” released in 1995, was the first to make the charts, reaching fourth on Billboard’s regional Mexican chart. Its next album, “Llévame Contigo,” released the following year, reached first on the chart and third on the top Latin albums chart.
The band had eight albums top both charts — “Intocable,” released in 1998; “Es Para Tí,” released in 2000; “The History,” released in 2003; “Intimamente,” released in 2004; “Crossroads: Cruce de Caminos,” released in 2006; “En Peligro de Extinción,” released in 2013; “XX Aniversario,” released in 2015; and “Highway,” released in 2016.
“14 Grandes Exitos,” released in 2001, topped the Latin albums chart. “Nuestro Destino Estaba Escrito,” released in 2003, “X,” released in 2005 and “Intocable 2011,” released in 2011, topped the regional Mexican chart.
Intocable received its first of 10 Grammy nominations in 2000 for best Tejano album for “Contigo.” It won its first Grammy in 2005 for best regional Mexican album for “Intimamente.”
The band won for best Norteño album in 2011 for “Classic.”
Band members José Ángel Farias and Silvestre Rodríguez and road manager José Ángel González were killed in a 1999 van accident en route to Monterrey International Airport.
Muñoz and the remaining members of the group suffered multiple injuries and spent weeks in a Monterrey hospital. They returned to touring following a six-month layoff.
