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\n\tLegendary Los Angeles rock band Los Lobos<\/a> is suing over allegedly unpaid royalties tied to soundtrack recordings for the 1987 Richie Valens biopic La Bamba<\/em> and the 1995 Richard Rodriguez-directed film Desperado<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tIn two lawsuits quietly filed late last year and obtained by Rolling Stone<\/em>, one of which surfaced Friday after being moved to federal court, the Grammy-winning Chicano band accuses Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment of breaching their contracts and failing to properly account for worldwide royalties. Los Lobos is seeking damages and a new global accounting, alleging that the unpaid amounts total at least $1.5 million and could reach as much as $2.75 million, or more.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the first lawsuit, the band says the La Bamba<\/em> soundtrack album reached double platinum status, with its rendition of \u201cLa Bamba\u201d topping charts in at least 15 countries. Despite the album\u2019s commercial success, Los Lobos contends it has never been paid streaming royalties for the recordings outside the United States and Canada. The band says it discovered the \u201cmassive deficiency\u201d in the royalty statements last March. According to the filing, unpaid royalties tied to the soundtrack range from $1 million to $2 million, with Sony Pictures Entertainment responsible for the payments.<\/p>\n \n\tThe second lawsuit, which moved to federal court Friday, alleges that in 1993, Los Lobos agreed to provide several soundtrack songs for Desperado<\/em> and recorded the song \u201cCanci\u00f3n del Mariachi<\/a>\u201d with the movie\u2019s lead actor, Antonio Banderas<\/a>. Los Lobos member Cesar Rosas \u201cwrote the composition in its entirety,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2004, the independent record company Milan Entertainment released a compilation album entitled Robert Rodriguez\u2019s Mexico and Mariachis <\/em>that included the song with liner notes that said it was included \u201ccourtesy of Columbia Pictures,\u201d the lawsuit says. In 2018, Milan allegedly released the song again on Spotify and YouTube with the shortened title \u201cMexico and Mariachis.\u201d That release purportedly garnered 150 million streams on Spotify and another 150 million streams on YouTube, the lawsuit claims.<\/p>\n