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Tejano music (Spanish: música tejana), also known as Tex-Mex music, is a popular music style fusing Mexican influences. Its evolution began in northern Mexico (a variation of regional Mexican music known as norteño ).
In places such as San Antonio, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area, and Dallas and Houston, Texas, the African-American audience was very important to aspiring Latino musicians, and this kept their music wedded to authentic R&B. DJ Dick Hugg (aka Huggie Boy) and radio station KRLA 1110 played a big role in promoting this music.
Mazz was a Tejano band originally from Brownsville, Texas. [1] The band was known for their idiosyncratic and innovative form of Tejano cumbia which made them distinguishable among their counterparts.
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.
He released "Tex-Mex Rock & Roll", his first LP in 1979. [ 3 ] In late 1979, he joined up with Kris Cummings (née Kristine Anne Cummings; born 1951), Brad Kizer and Mike Navarro to form Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns and soon after releasing their first single, "Party Weekend", "the band was playing chic New York venues and generating lines ...
The first recognized Chicano rap album was the 1990 debut album Hispanic Causing Panic by Kid Frost; [1] the album's lead single, "La Raza", which combined East L.A. and Tex-Mex elements, was a hit song and became an "East L.A. anthem. [2]
Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century is a 2002 non-fiction book by Guadalupe San Miguel, published by the Texas A&M University Press. John Koegel of California State University, Fullerton described the work as "a sympathetic and balanced historical overview" of the subject. [ 1 ]
KJIM (1500 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Sherman, Texas.The station is owned by Bob Mark Allen Productions. [2] KJIM airs a primary adult standards radio format featuring programming from America's Best Music, a service of Westwood One, and also airs secondary classic hits and soft adult contemporary formats.