| Sumario: | The article aims to show, through an examination of the music, careers, and deaths of Mexican popular singers Jorge Negrete and Sergio Gómez, that during the mid 20th and early 21st centuries the locus of Mexican popular culture moved from central Mexico to the northern border and into the United States. It contrasts the repatriation of Negrete's remains to Mexico after his death in Los Angeles, California in 1953 with Gómez' funeral in Chicago, Illinois and burial in Avon, Indiana in 2007. The article notes that Negrete was universally known in Mexico as one of the country's greatest singers and actors, as well as the epitome of the image of the Mexican "charro." On the other hand, it notes that Gómez was most popular among people of Mexican decent living in the United States.
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