This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Dusty Oliveira—who DJs as El Dusty—helped lead the revival and reinvention of cumbia, most notably with his 2018 debut album, Cumbia City. His influences, and his ...

Houston has always been important to Jennifer Peña.

San Antonio has long been recognized as the world capital of Tejano music. But in recent years Corpus Christi, where the roots of the influential Kumbia Kings are, has evolved into the bright-shining ...

The new album is called “No Regrets.” But does the legendary, drama-laden, occasionally estranged Tejano family band La Tropa F really mean it? Unequivocally, yes. The evidence: the joyous and rowdy ...

A push against tradition is what catapulted Tejano music to its creative and commercial peak in the '90s. Selena and La Mafia became international superstars by incorporating pop and R&B into the mix.

There was a time when regional Mexican music was predictable. Norteno groups such as Los Tigres del Norte would release an album of traditional corridos, and band members would wear the customary, ...

Editor's Note: This story first appeared in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on Sunday, March 31, 1996. Selena's death a year ago trained the mainstream spotlight on Tejano music like never before. The ...

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonians hopping into their cars can now dial into a familiar sound. The radio waves have never sounded so nostalgic for fans of polkas, cumbias or conjunto beats thanks to the new ...