Tejano music which also is known as Tex-Mex it refers to the style of Mexican-American music, which it is born in the South Texas region from a Chicano community that evolve from different styles of music on the late 19th century. These lead to the early years where in the south regions this music evolve from a group of farmer people community that start creating corridos which born from an European music style such as waltz, polkas and ballads. This music adapts the stylishness of narrative nonfiction music by the year of the 1803, we find he introduction of verses in the polkas corridor music. In other words from that time the music start evolving into other genres, such as rock and roll, pop, rancheras, Mexican cumbias, conjunto and tejano music. In the late 20th century we can find many artists that make this genre so popular on the Southern Texas region, tejano music gave birth to a great artists such as La mafia, Emilio Navaira, Gary Hobbs, Jennifer Peña, Jay Perez, La Sombra, and finally Selena Quintanilla. These are some artists that I can say put the genre on Tex-Mex music in the top in their time. Adding to this I can say Selena she …show more content…
We can find that Selena Quintanilla- Perez was born on April 16, 1971 in the state of Texas in Lake Jackson; she was part of a Mexican American family, she had two brothers Abraham Quintanilla and Marcella which they were part of the band created by her father Abraham Quintanilla “Los Dinnos”. This band was a young band of three member brother’s which it became popular in their time for many years, after they moved to Corpus Christi Texas, Selena started making this new revolution on her music between a style of Tejano incorporating rock, R&B, polka, Mexican ballads and techno, referring to the article website “Encyclopedia.com”. The band recorded 5 albums, which help her become the artist, the Queen of tejano