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The successful career of singer/guitarist Leonard González (blessed Leonardo González) began with La Mafia, a favorite Houston-based outfit assembled with Oscar González in 1986. Their eponymous debut record premiered that same season and accompanied by the top-selling Estas Tocando Fuego and triple-platinum Ahora con Siempre. After his departure from La …

Texas-based singer Gary Hobbs became a significant player in the Tejano scene from the middle-’80s. At age eight, while living at Eagle Move, Hobbs began acquiring piano lessons. This is his first rung on the ladder to finally try show business, a chance the artist experienced while playing acoustic guitar …

Maria Conchita Alonso has everything — beauty, skill, and a character which has allowed her to become star of movies, Broadway, and a Grammy-nominated vocalist. Miss Teenager from the Globe in 1971 and Miss Venezuela in 1975, Alonso was called “Hispanic Female of the entire year” from the Mexican American …

Grupo Mazz was formed in Brownsville, TX, by singer/guitarists Jimmy González and Joe López, and emerged among the most innovative rings within their genre after adding synthesizer to mix traditional Mexican music and popular Latin rhythms. They debuted in 1978 with Mazz, offering the hit solitary “Comprendo Mi Amor.” Through …

Spawning among the hottest dance crazes from the ’90s, the duo of Antonio Romeo Monge and Rafael Ruiz released “Macarena” in 1993, but experienced to hold back almost 3 years for the track to become worldwide strike. Monge and Ruiz experienced documented Spanish flamenco-pop as Los del Rio for many …

Puerto Rican singer and celebrity given birth to in Trujillo Alto Yolandita Monge debuted inside a radio train station display called Tribuna del Arte in 1969. A 12 months later, her 1st recording was released individually, getting the strike solitary “Vida.” Monge’s performing career experienced a bright instant while taking …

Among Mexico’s biggest international superstars of the brand new millennium, Alejandro Fernández initial established himself in the first ’90s like a champ of ranchera music before crossing to the Latin pop mainstream in 1997 using the chart-topping recording Me personally Estoy Enamorando. Created on Apr 24, 1971, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, …

Elida Reyna (aka “La Reina del Valle Mágico”) is really a Grammy-winning American tejano singer from San Antonio, Tx. Though Reyna was created in San Antonio, she grew up in Mercedes, Tx. In the home she was both saturated with and deeply affected by the noises of tejano and norteño …

The quintessential classic bolero trio, Los Panchos were formed in NY in 1944 by Mexicans Alfredo Bojalil Gil and Chucho Navarro and Puerto Rican Hernando Avilés. The trio’s innovative format, which would turn into a standard from the genre, presented three voices and three guitars, in addition to Gil’s distinctive …

Making use of their keyboard-driven Cumbias and airy pop sound, los Fugitivos dominated the onda grupera scene from the ’90s. Brothers Jaime and Edi Espinoza shaped the music group in 1985 as Grupo Kariño. However in 1991, using the addition vocalist/keyboardist Roberto Nieto, the music group became los Fugitivos. The …