1.   Formed two years ago, the Reynas were founded by Jose Hernandez, director of Mariachi Sol de Mexico, a popular Los Angeles-based mariachi group.

2.   He said he wanted to depict the spirit of the mariachi group.

3.   Two mariachi groups presented grandly melodramatic singing and jovial paired trumpets.

4.   Vasquez and Veto Ruiz, a Chicano studies professor at Cal State Northridge, are considered the pioneers of mariachi youth groups in the Valley.