Saying Something 'That Is Us': The Villalobos Brothers Raise Their Voices
Ernesto, Luis and Alberto Villalobos took a detour from the classical music world to embrace the sounds of their childhood with the band's latest album, Somos.
by Audie Cornish
Aug 08, 2019
2 minutes
As young men, the sons of the Villalobos family in rural embarked on separate paths — at least, geographically. One by one, the three violin-playing brothers left their hometown of Xalapa to study classical music abroad. Ernesto, the oldest of the three, went to study at the Manhattan School of Music. Alberto, the middle brother, went to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and
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