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Sunny Sauceda is a Tejano music and Texas Country artist from San Antonio, Texas. Sauceda plays the accordion and sings. He is the recipient of three Grammy Awards.
Opposite the Titano Accordion "quint" free bass system designed by Willard Palmer, Ariondo and the late Tommy Gumina are two artists in the United States that play a reverse "quint" free bass system (no converter, only free bass). Ariondo's "Perpetual Motion" video demonstrates the artistic capabilities of the free bass accordion .
This is a list of articles describing traditional music styles that incorporate the accordion, alphabetized by assumed region of origin.. Note that immigration has affected many styles: e.g. for the South American styles of traditional music, German and Czech immigrants arrived with accordions (usually button boxes) and the new instruments were incorporated into the local traditional music.
Tejano music was born in Texas. Although it has influences from Mexico and other Latin American countries, the main influences are American. The types of music that make up Tejano are folk music, roots music, rock, R&B, soul music, blues, country music and the Latin influences of norteño, mariachi, and Mexican cumbia.
Planet Squeezebox: Accordion Music from Around the World: Ellipsis Arts 3470 1995 "A Mi San Antonio" A Taste of Tex Mex: 40 Tejano Tidbits: Emporio DEMPCD 028 1997 "Pobre Palomita" The Rough Guide to Tex-Mex: World Music Network (UK) RGNET 1037 CD 1999 "Quiereme, Quiereme" Tex Mex Favourites, Vol. 2: Weton-Wesgram (Netherlands) KBOX3235 2000
Moreover, the accordion is the principal instrument in Junina music (music of the São João Festival), with Mario Zan having been a very important exponent of this music. It is an important instrument in Sertanejo (and Caipira) music, which originated in the midwest and southeast of Brazil, and subsequently has gained popularity throughout the ...
He positioned his backing musicians, brother Ernie and Uncle Jamie, to play guitar and drums respectively, with the bass player being his compadre, Joe Tanguma — at the age of only 19. He began climbing the Latin American music charts in 1995 after releasing his single "Cruz de Madera". Salgado's 1996 album "En Concierto" introduced his most ...
Since tejano was bred out of norteño music originally, this association is not entirely false. However, due to various cultural and socioeconomic developments in the 1900s, norteño musicians began trailblazing the tejano genre as a tangent to conjunto. [2] In the United States and Mexico, a conjunto band is composed of four main instruments ...