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Tejano Musician Andres Berlanga

“I started playing guitar, I didn’t know nothing about guitar, I was hard labor man working on construction and all that then I come to think, this man can do it I guess I can do it too and I tried it and I tried it and I got on it.”

Flaco Jimenez Interview | Tejano Music

“Naturally now you can’t stick just with polka and redova and schottisches. You have to play what’s going on in the world. Starting with polka, and a little rock-and-roll, or a little cumbia, cha-cha-cha”…”Because it’s pretty hard just to play just polka, polka, polka, polka, or just cumbia, cumbia, cumbia. You have to mix it up.”

Audio Interviews

share: [feather_share] Luis Acosta Interviewed by Chris Strachwitz Date: May 19, 1974 Language: English Instrument maker, A&R man in San Antonio in the 1930s. Moses...

Manuel Peña Tejano Music Interviews

To go directly to the Dr. Manuel Peña Interviews click here. The late Dr. Manuel Peña (1942 – 2019), the compiler of this list of musician...

Lydia Mendoza Photo Gallery

Lydia Mendoza Image Gallery Lydia Mendoza was the first Queen of Tejano Music, with a recording career that began in 1928 and lasted more than 60...

Armando Marroquín Interview – Tejano

Armando Marroquín will always be known as the man who founded the tejano recording industry. A native of Alice, Texas, where he spent his entire life, Marroquín was born in 1912, and he died in 1990.

Frontera Collection Catalog

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Luis Acosta Interview – Tejano Music

Born on May 4th, 1906, Luis Acosta was one of three brothers who made the best bajo sextos in the world. Acosta bajo sextos were the preferred accompaniment to pioneering accordionists Don Santiago and Narciso Martinez and played by La Alondra De La Frontera herself Lydia Mendoza. Here is a rare interview of Luis Acosta conducted by Chris Strachwitz.

Genre: Tejano