The corrido is a kind of folk story-song from Mexico, with local styles like the valona from Michoacan. During the Mexican Revolution, southern corridos flourished, including one called 'Soy Zapatista de tierra caliente' about a soldier from which small Mexican state just south of Mexico City - the home state of the famous revolutionary Emiliano Zapata?

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Morelos. In Michoacán, the corrido has a local sister genre called the valona, sung alongside the more familiar corrido form. A famous southern corrido from Morelos, 'Soy de Morelos', was written during the Mexican Revolution about Zapata's war.