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Gloria Ríos, an American-born actress and lounge singer, is often credited with introducing rock & roll music in Mexico.

In those early years, the first acts that performed and recorded rock & roll in the country were not rock "bands", but rather orchestras that combined jazz sounds with the new genre. Rock & roll music was introduced to Mexico in the mid 1950s, as musicians like Elvis Presley and Bill Haley were at the peak of their popularity in the US, and their music began to be broadcast in Mexico and covered by Mexican bands. Rock activity in Mexico in the 1950s took place either in Mexico City and the surrounding area or in northern cities such as Mexicali, Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana, whose proximity to the United States gave them more exposure to American sounds. There come the TEEN TOPS It's the cry of admiration and enthusiasm launched by the public in Mexico. Los Teen Tops achieved important musical successes at the beginning of the years 1960. Initially, the public exhibited only moderate interest in them, because the media attention was focused on La Ola Inglesa ( British Invasion). In the southwestern United States, Spanish guitar rhythms and Mexican musical influences may have inspired some of the music of American musicians Ritchie Valens, Danny Flores (of The Champs), Sam the Sham, Roy Orbison and later, Herb Alpert. Their 1954 recording of She's My Babe was the first top 40 R&B recording by a Latino band. Their lead guitarist, Bill Aken (adopted son of Lupe Mayorga, effectively making Aken the cousin of Ritchie Valens), wrote most of their original material, including the raucous Donde-Donde, and co-wrote the material for their Sounds Of The Barrio album, which is still being sold. The group "Los Nómadas" was the first racially integrated band of the 1950s.

Standards by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Nancy Sinatra and Chuck Berry, were soon covered by bands such as Los Apson, Los Teen Tops, Los Twisters,, ,, Los Rebeldes del Rock, ,, and, which later led to original compositions, often in English.

Mexican rock music, often referred to in Mexico as rock nacional ("national rock"), originated in the 1950s.