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Tejano Music

"At the turn of the 21st century the tejano influence has declined in part due to decreased promotion, the rise in regional Mexican and other Latin music, the breakup or retirement of established performers, and the emergence of few new performers. Most tejano artists who performed throughout the 1990s during the music's peak/who are still performing today have rarely played to the same wide stream attention in recent years."

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"Regardless, today's tejano music, while far more pop-oriented than its depression-era roots, is still a vital regional musical style in several tejano communities as well as in other parts of the United States.”  Ouch. That hurts. But true.

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I love this link of mine, and I've had it in just about every tejano music site I've had since the mid-1980s. But for some strange and unknown reason I have always felt - and to this very day - that perhaps I missed something or my audience/fanbase somehow missed my point or message. Maybe it was the music content, the material, factoids, raw data, issues, my picture gallery? ... or even my own agendas and comments might have hit a wrong mental human fiber.

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"Maybe my commentaries or music ideas were perhaps not in clear intent and/or not

important in this critical modern day and timeline of 2025-26."

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But after living in three states, you might consider me a nomadic navigator of sorts. No. I mean, it has been a charted journey of music experiences, diverse cities and states, different landscapes, and just connecting heartbeats with local communities, and adapting to new tejano music horizons. Having said that all this thinking and logic only brings me more music questions like:

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  • How come all of us tejanos - [fans, musicians and groups, promoters] - how come we did so much more back then, i.e., the 1950s through the mid-90s, and we did it with less technology and no social media of any kind? No apps! No cells either!

  • Did we lose our tejano music - [in our present day] - because tejano music got too urban and/or too modernized?

  • Is our tejano music too diverse?

  • In our modern day do we have too many cultures trying to play real tejano music?

  • And thus, creating different tejano sounds?

  • And we don't like these changes and new sounds?

  • Can you tell the difference between 'real tejano music' and the music we hear today? 

  • Is our beautiful and real tejano music that was played by our pioneers, disappearing?

  • How come we lost everything? No radio, no TV, no dance halls, no clubs of our own, very little tours; only to casinos and festivals. There is nothing here in Phoenix or in Arizona.

  • Are we going to be quiet and do nothing to get our music and tejano culture back?

  • How come us tejanos live this way?

  • Don't you care about your tejano music?

  • And who do you blame for all this music misfortune of sorts?

  • Why can't we, tejanos and tejanas, just stop blaming others, talk less and do more, and get our music back?

  • Who's to stop us?

  • And another thing. Maybe it's okay for all of you that live in Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and other major cities that do have 'live tejano music' every weekend, and you have a great time out there, but how about us that live in other states and we can't hear it or dance to tejano music? We want it too.

  • Tejanos across the country want more tejano music. Period.

  • San Antonio? We have a problem. A big problem.

Sounds good AJ
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Real nice Roger, nice

"I'm building a better tejano music experience, a new link, and enhancing TMDC ...

New content coming soon.

Pardon our dust."

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