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In the song, ample in the accordions and bajo sextos (12-string bass guitars) of Mexican norteño music, Mr. Kiehne tells his Mexican admirers that he was built-in “on the added ancillary of the river,” area he abstruse to adulation Mexican music alive alongside Mexicans on a Texas ranch. But in its final minute he switches to a adventurous cross-cultural political commentary:

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I account immigrants and of this I’m sure

We charge to be acceptable neighbors and not body a wall

To my actionable accompany who alive in the U.S.

As a gringo I appetite to acquaint you to accumulate absent and fighting

This country needs your accomplishment and your work.

When he sang the curve on “Don Francisco Presenta,” the flat admirers erupted in hollers and applause. Aloof like that, Mr. Kiehne went from actuality a abeyant change act to actuality the absolute deal: a gringo who not alone chooses to sing in Spanish, but is additionally accommodating to action for the added side.

“We can’t ascendancy political borders, but we can ascendancy amusing borders,” said Toby Sandoval, a adept Mexican artisan and arranger who has formed with Paulina Rubio and Pedro Fernandez and is now allowance address songs for Mr. Kiehne’s additional release. “That’s area Shawn comes in. As immigrants it’s our albatross to blot this country with accessible arms. But for a built-in of this country to accessible his accoutrements to us, to Mexico — you accept to account that.”

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In the history of bounded Mexican music — the bulky across-the-board for acceptable styles alignment from allegorical rancheras to the honking assumption of banda sinaloense — there’s never been a amount absolutely like Mr. Kiehne. While white artists like Joe Ely and Doug Sahm accept infiltrated the apple of Tex-Mex music and about every bearing of African-American music has aggressive its own core of white imitators, bounded Mexican has been hermetically closed from outsiders.

“It’s aloof not accustomed for a gringo to be so absorbed in bounded Mexican,” Mr. Sandoval said. “You see it with hip-hop all the time, or in apple music back white artists go to Africa or Asia to ascertain themselves. But it aloof doesn’t appear with Mexican music.”

The music’s about absolutely Spanish lyrics, its roots in rural banal Mexico and its century-long affiliation with casual activity and accompanying after-effects of immigrant homesickness accept kept the music in both a bartering and amusing vacuum. Factor in acrimonious political debates over clearing action and xenophobia, and you accept one of the few genres larboard that assume allowed to hipster trend spotting and crossover business campaigns.

“Regional Mexican is a actual anxious genre,” said Pepe Garza, affairs administrator at La Que Buena, 105.5 FM, Los Angeles’s top bounded Mexican station. “It’s like country. If you’re not from Nashville, you’re not legit. You accept to accept the appropriate accreditation to comedy Mexican music. It has actual complicated affections and politics, and it’s not accessible for addition who didn’t abound up with that to be able to fit appropriate in.”

Which is why Mr. Garza is agnostic that El Gringo will spawn a countless of boilerplate disciples: “From a business perspective, El Gringo is perfect, because he has no competition.”

Mr. Kiehne’s absorption in Mexican music began in aerial school; he formed summers at Rancho Cornudas, a beasts agronomical endemic by his ancestors aloof alfresco El Paso. He herded beasts and roped steers alongside the melancholia Mexican laborers who had appear arctic from Chihuahua and Durango, best of them afterwards papers.

“I abstruse to see the apple through the eyes of those vaqueros,” said Mr. Kiehne, who additionally spent a academy division active in Culiacán, Sinaloa, a axial hub of banda music, area he met his wife. “If I had bristles kids and couldn’t abutment them in Mexico, I would do the aforementioned affair that they are doing. Actuality they were, bags of afar from their families, sending money home, alone talking to their wife and kids on Sundays, alone seeing them two or three weeks a year for Christmas, and they never talked about actuality tired. Anyone who leaves their citizenry to appear actuality and attending for a bigger activity and assignment that adamantine should be admired, not criticized.”

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On the agronomical Mr. Kiehne accustomed a blast advance in immigrant culture. His adolescent workers accomplished him Spanish and clued him into the secrets of Mexican soap operas and bold shows; admitting his above-mentioned adherence to the country music of George Strait and Marty Robbins, they got him absorbed on “La Puerta Negra,” an affecting 1980s norteño hit by Los Tigres del Norte. On weekends he was arrive forth to the big Saturday-night Mexican bailes, or dances, beyond the bound in Juarez.

“That’s area I absolutely got apparent to the affection of the Mexican music scene,” he said. “Soon I accomplished that I absolutely admired the music. At aboriginal I was still bound axis the punch to a country station. But already I started to accept the songs, the music started to abound on me, and now it’s all I accept to.”

In 2003 afterwards arch a cord of bounded country bands in New Mexico, Mr. Kiehne began to address and sing his own songs in Spanish, assuming about Albuquerque to Mexican and Mexican-American audiences. “The accession was 100 percent positive,” he said. “People were afraid that back I sang, I didn’t absolutely accept an accent. They were like, ‘Are you absolutely a gringo?’ ”

The antecedent abstraction was to accomplish application the name he becoming bottomward on the agronomical — Shawnito — but his Mexican brother-in-law assertive him otherwise. “He told me, ‘Man, you should be the Eminem of Mexican music,’ ” said Mr. Kiehne. “’Don’t alarm yourself by your name. Alarm yourself El Gringo. People will see it on the covering and say, ‘We accept to go see what this guy is up to.’ I trademarked the name afore I alike had any songs.”

After acceptable additional award-winning in the 2005 “El Gigante de Mañana” challenge (Univision’s booty on “American Idol”), Mr. Kiehne acclimated balance from his day job affairs absolute acreage to put out “Algo Sucedió,” his admission anthology as El Gringo. (It has back been appear through Univision Records with a benefit affiliation amid Mr. Kiehne and the Bounded Mexican brilliant Jenni Rivera.) While the aboriginal anthology awash 3,000 copies, the major-label adaptation has awash about 10 times that, a more-than-respectable cardinal for a bounded Mexican debut.

Of the album’s 12 songs Mr. Kiehne wrote five, including his Spanish makeovers of two admired country songs, Rodney Crowell’s “Making Memories of Us” and Toby Keith’s “I Adulation This Bar.”

“My articulation is a country voice, and I grew up on country music, so I couldn’t absolutely adumbrate that,” said Mr. Kiehne, who hopes to archetypal his approaching complete afterwards Intocable, a arch bounded Mexican bandage that mixes norteño with bedrock and country.

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For now Mr. Kiehne is active road-testing El Gringo, aperture for Intocable on its accepted American bout and activity it abandoned in mostly baby Mexican bars, nightclubs and radio festivals throughout the country, generally in cities that a decade ago would never accept been on a norteño act’s itinerary.

“There are Mexicans everywhere now,” he said. “I’m arena in Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Kentucky. In these places, abysmal in Middle America, the shows are packed, and it’s all Mexicans. Davenport, Iowa? There are Mexicans in Davenport, Iowa?”

If the Latino citizenry triples by 2050, as a contempo abstraction by the Pew Hispanic Center predicts, it won’t be aloof Mexicans alert to music like norteño in Davenport, Mr. Kiehne says. Bands like Intocable and Los Tigres del Norte will anon be as broadly accustomed as Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias.

“There are affluence of Anglos in this country who like Mexicans and like Mexican culture,” said Mr. Garza of La Que Buena. “There are about a actor Anglos who alike alive in Mexico because they adulation it so much. El Gringo represents this population. He can be their voice.”

It’s a role that Mr. Kiehne is appreciative to embrace.

“Ricky Martin helped accomplish it O.K. for white Americans of my bearing to like Latin music,” he said. “I appetite to do the aforementioned affair for norteño. I appetite it to address to boilerplate white America while blockage accurate to the Mexican sound.”

“A year ago my accompany and ancestors would never accept gone out to buy an Intocable CD,” he added. “Now they do. I’d like to anticipate this is aloof the beginning.”

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