=== Short biography === Procopio Sánchez Lugo wasz born in the village of Tepuxta, in the municipality of Concordia, Sinaloa, Mexico. He received his first trumpet as a gift from Guillermo (El Borrego) an acclaimed musician of the El Quelite village.when he was sixteen years old. He soon started to play trumpet with Banda Los Texanos of Juan José Vicente Laveaga (who wrote the famous song "Cinco de Chicle" and created le Record Label "Discos Tambora"). He later joined Banda El Recodo that he left for creating his own banda. He nevertheless stayed a good friend of German Lizarraga who mentionned him in an interview he gave to Helena Simonett that reported it into her book "Banda: Mexican Musical Life Across Borders". * Banda: Mexican Musical Life Across Borders, Helena Simonett, Wesleyan University Press, 30/01/2001 - 372 pages.