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Norteño music veteran Tony de la Rosa was among the initial bandleaders to include drums and amplification towards the tradition-bound conjunto design. De la Rosa was created in 1931 in Sarita, Tx, and started playing a double-row squeezebox accordion at age 11. He founded a conjunto music group in the …

Isidro Lopez is widely thought to be the daddy of Tejano music, fusing the class of big music group orquesta music using the accordion-fueled energy of conjunto to make a hugely influential audio that remains to be an elemental force inside the Latino market. Nicknamed “Un Indio” due to his …