Corrido Poems is Cristian Ramirez Rodriguez’ spoken-word poetry project combining corrido instrumentals with spoken-word poetry.

To his knowledge, he is the first Canadian to ever combine the two genres.

Corrido music began in Mexico, before spreading throughout Canada, the US, and Latin America. Corridos are folk songs that record history, local events and “lo cotidiano,” everyday life of the migrant working class. Various fusion subgenres spawned out of it, including corrido tumbado that mixes corridos with hip-hop.

Cristian’s musical and poetic journey began in 2017 at fourteen years-old when he released his first single to Spotify. It sounded bad enough that it became a running joke in his high-school. Between the ages of 14 and 16 he released two “studio” (read produced in his living room) albums while he lived in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada.

His artistry improved when he moved to Moraga, California, for his undergraduate degree in physics, releasing the self-produced pandemic-inspired album “el fin de la tormenta” in 2021 which included his most streamed song, “Mambo en Cuarentena,” which as of October 22nd, 2026, had accumulated 16850 streams on Spotify. His fourth album, 12x12-1, later released in 2023.

While at Saint Mary’s College of California, Cristian began writing poetry under the tutelage of poet/activist Brenda Hillman, which led to a hiatus from English-language music that would last until late 2025. He would, however, continue releasing music in Spanish, including the self-produced, fully Spanish-language album 27.

Returning to Canada in 2024, Cristian moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick and in his first two years there, he won various poetry prizes at home and abroad including the 2026 Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award, the Oregon Poetry Association’s inaugural Spanish-language poetry contest in 2025 and the Quantum Arts Prize in Literature from the Canadian Association of Physicists in 2026.

An CBC interview where Cristian describes his artistic trajectory can be found here.

After consulting with some of his fellow poets, the Corrido Poems project was born for Cristian’s primarily English-language spoken-word poetry, while his forays into bachata, cumbia, reggaeton, Latin rock and indie pop remain under his birth name.

His first live performance after beginning the Corrido Poems project was a free concert at the Gagetown base on October 16th, 2026, to celebrate the contributions of Latin-Canadians in the armed forces.

(Note, the links provided are only for the Corrido Poems project, Cristian's other poetic and musical work is under his name, Cristian Ramirez Rodriguez)