Conjunto legend Ruben Vela’s career stretched from his boyhood in dusty South Texas dance halls to the days of the powermix and the music video. The accordion mastery that kept people dancing for more than half a century has been forever silenced. Vela, died this evening. He was 72 years old. Throughout the years Ruben Vela’s music has touched the hearts and souls of Tejano Fans around the world. In 1983 he was honored for these outstanding contributions to the world of Conjunto Music and was inducted into the Conjunto Hall …

The life of Selena Quintanilla-Perez — best-known as Selena — was cut short March 31, 1995, when she was gunned down by the founder of her fan club, but her music has never stopped selling. Her label, EMI, is counting on the enduring popularity of the Tejano star’s catalog and interest around the anniversary of her death to spur sales of three hits packages.
Selena’s “Amor Prohibido” has spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Latin Catalog Albums chart since 1997, …

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum introduced Saturday the first major exhibition highlighting the impact of Latinos in U.S. popular music.
The exhibition, called American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, was created by Experience Music Project and the University of Washington. The exhibit will run from February 13 until May 9, and is both bilingual and interactive.
American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music tells the story of a long history of Latino influence on American music geared toward creating new perspectives …

State Rep. Norma Chávez warned the State Board of Education on Wednesday to include more Hispanics in new history curriculum standards or risk possible budget scrutiny.
Hispanic children make up a majority of the early elementary grades in the state’s public schools, and the proposed standards give them precious few role models, the El Paso Democrat said.
“They want to see people like themselves,” Chávez said to the board on behalf of the 44-member House Mexican American Legislative Caucus.
Of the 162 historical figures required in the proposed standards for kindergarten through high …

If you are a fan of Wikipedia you might be slightly confused on the actual history of Tejano Music and how it was actually established.  Since it is edited by various sources and can be manipulated or altered by anyone and everyone, even non-historians it’s material is sometimes incorrect or confused.
Just to give you a basic example Tejano Music didn’t just magically become named “Tejano Music” and it wasn’t first named Tex-Mex in the 50’s.
Tejano Music as we know it today started off under two different, yet distinct classifications on …