Influences include mariachi and beatnecks, as well as bands such as The Velvet Underground, The Modern Lovers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bob Dylan, Luca Prodan, Bo Diddley, Louis Jordan, Tom Waits, The Pogues, and The Orquesta Mondragón.
Like those slaves in cotton fields that invented the blues, Los Negretes make music, in principle, to lighten the tragedy of existence, and that is to say, and not without some artistic pretension, that the blues is Los Negretes.