Ugly Little Monkeys

The story behind the film, The Ugly Little Monkeys, is five decades in the making. It's the true story of Los Changuitos Feos de Tucson, a group of kids who grew up in the 1960s, in the working class barrios of Tucson, Arizona, who were catapulted into the international spotlight as world class musicians. It began in the basement of church, where boys as young as nine, learned to play under the musical direction of a jazz pianist - an Irish Catholic Priest with a passion for mariachi music. Los Changuitos Feos became the first and most successful youth mariachi group in the United States.