DEL Records

A Spanish language record label founded by Ángel del Villar in 2008, DEL Records makes its home in the Los Angeles suburb of Bell Gardens. With its own studios and publishing company, DEL focuses on regional Mexican music, including banda, Pacific-style norteño, norteño banda, Sierreño banda, and mariachi. DEL Records has launched the careers of chart-topping artists like Gerardo Ortíz, Luis Coronel, Ulices Chaidez y Sus Plebes, and Régulo Caro, frequent winners at the Billboard Latin Music Awards. The label’s standout artist, Ariel Camacho, passed away in a tragic automobile accident in 2015.