Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho are a regional Mexican band, specializing in the sierreño-banda style. The group was founded in 2013 as Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho, by Mexican musician Ariel Camacho and his friend César Sánchez and were originally signed to JG Entertainment. They signed with DEL Records in 2014, but then left in 2016 due to disputes with the label's owner. The death of Ariel Camacho caused changes to the group.
The band consists of a twelve-string guitar, a six-string acoustic guitar, and a sousaphone tuba. This style of regional Mexican music is a hybrid of Sinaloa-style sierreño and banda.
Los Plebes del Rancho are credited with turning their style of music, which had previously been an obscure genre from the sierras of Northwestern Mexico, into a mainstream genre popular across Mexico and the Mexican-American community of the United States.
In 2015, Ariel Camacho died in a car accident.
José Manuel López Castro later became the band's new lead vocalist and twelve-string guitarist.
In early 2016, a legal battle with their label, DEL Records, ensued as both the company and the band claimed to be the owners of the name "Los Plebes del Rancho".
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