El Gran Silencio emerge from the poor barrios of the northern Mexican city of Monterrey , founded by brothers Tony and Cano Hernandez in 1993 . At first they called themselves '' La Zona del Silencio '' , and had only a cheap harmonica and guitar , sing pails and trash cans for the percussion , while saving money for real instruments . After finding a cassette of band of the same name , they changed it to El Gran Silencio , taken from a song by Rodrigo “ Rockrigo ” González , a singer/songwriter who died in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
El Gran Silencio