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According to Apple Music, Grupo Frontera streams have grown over 3,000% in the past year as their songs have reached Apple Music’s Daily Top 100 in 39 countries worldwide.
In the 60s there was an explosion of Chicano rock bands in East Los Angeles and Texas. Sunny & the Sunglows produced several regional hits during the 1960s but is best remembered for its 1963 Number 11 Billboard hit "Talk to Me, Talk to Me". They hold the distinction of being the first all-Mexican American group featured on American Bandstand.
Michael Edward Guerra (born September 9, 1981), is a California-based accordionist, music producer, studio musician, and singer/songwriter. Guerra has performed and recorded with various bands, including The Mavericks , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and Raul Malo , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and has also led his own band, The Michael Guerra Band.
Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto: Music, Tradition and Culture at the U.S.–Mexico Border. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-79363-898-4. OCLC 1240575442. Villarreal, Mary Ann (2015). Listening to Rosita: The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806148526. OCLC 908192594.
Tex & the Horseheads is an American punk rock band, which emerged in the Los Angeles punk subculture of the early-1980. [1] They were described as "passionately committed and intense in delivery" in a 1984 review by The Washington Post. [2] Their original run was from 1980 to 1986 and during this time they enjoyed a sizeable cult following. As ...
Texas Tornados is an American Tejano supergroup, composed of some of country music's biggest artists who modernized the Tex-Mex style including Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm, and Freddy Fender. Its music is a fusion of conjunto (German and Norteño Mexican fusion music of Texas) with rock, country, and various Mexican styles.
In late October 2016, Piñata Protest went into the studio with producer Dave Irish to record at Pot O' Gold Recording in Orange, CA. Their brand new EP, titled "Cuatro Exitos", was released in May 2017 featured 4 tracks and served as a follow up to "El Valiente." On April 6, 2018 the band released their full album album "Necio Nights."
Ideal was founded by Paco Betancourt and Armando Marroquín in 1946, making it the first of southern Texas record labels owned by Mexican-Americans. [1] [2] Following the Second World War the major record labels such as RCA Victor ceased recording regional Chicano music, concentrating instead on larger "authentic" Hispanic markets in major metropolitan areas such as Mexico City.