How to Use Tejano in a Sentence

Tejano

noun
  • Tejano music merchandise will be for sale along with food and beverages.
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • What is the Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair?
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • This March marks 31 years since the murder of the Queen of Tejano music.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The Tejano star was shot by Saldívar two weeks before what would have been her 24th birthday.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Where is parking for the Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair?
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Despite her short life, she is seen as a pioneer of Tejano music in America.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Back then, every quinceañera, boda, and family barbecue was imbued with cumbias by Tejano and norteño bands.
    — Yvonne Marquez, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • This isn’t to say Grupo Frontera is abandoning their Tejano hats, or their ranchera aesthetics.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 10 May 2024
  • Venues large and small across Austin offer live music sets every night of the week, from grunge and pop to electric, Tejano, and Texas country.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
  • That shooting claimed the life of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, an advocate for Tejano music.
    — David Plazas, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • For all the fusing of soul, blues, and Tejano sounds in his music, Crockett holds Wille Nelson’s craft closest to his heart.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Tens of thousands of Tejano music fans from across the country are expected to attend the event at Hemisfair Park.
    — Saul Pink, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Crockett rejects the idea, saying the Tejano legend holds an unrivaled status in the community.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The station also plays country and western, has a Tejano music program on Saturdays and plays gospel on Sundays.
    — Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Johnny Canales, a beloved Tejano singer and television host, who also helped to launch Selena’s career, has died at the age of 77.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • Tom Richard Santos is a Tejano writer, filmmaker, and sommelier based in Austin.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Jimena spun around to find Bobby Pulido, the famed Tejano singer, who’d materialized on the dance floor in a stiff cowboy hat and a navy blazer.
    — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Thirty years after the death of beloved Tejano star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, her husband is still trying to make sense of the tragedy.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Abraham Quintanilla, the father of late Tejano music legend Selena, has died.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Nonstop music will be provided by more than 100 Tejano and conjunto acts on three stages; many of the performers also will take part in meet-and-greet sessions.
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Arredondo grew up in McAllen, not far from Corpus Christi where the show was filmed, listening to the Tejano music his dad regularly played.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Tejano music roots, when acts like Selena, Emilio Navaira and La Mafia regularly played the rotating stage.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2026
  • At that time in the mid-90s, Tejano was booming, in great part thanks to the international success of Selena Quintanilla.
    — Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
  • His fusion of hip-hop, Latin cumbia, R&B, rock, and Tejano styles propelled performers like the Kumbia Kings to a decade of award-winning acclaim.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Aguilar's show drew 66,007 fans, less than 5,000 shy of Grupo Frontera's turnout for last year's Go Tejano Day.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2026
  • About halfway through his early Sunday evening set at RodeoHouston, Pepe Aguilar grabbed the Go Tejano Day chisme by the horns.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Her home state isn’t one of neat lines and concrete divisions; this is the only place in the world where bluegrass, zydeco, Tejano, western swing, and Mexican rancheras all coexist and sometimes even blend.
    — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 7 May 2026
  • One of his showcase events was a rally in the Rio Grande Valley with the Tejano music star Bobby Pulido, who’s running for Congress.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • For instance, in a South Texas district, the top potential Democratic challenger is Tejano music star Bobby Pulido.
    — Bill Barrow, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The documentary follows the rise of Canales from a musician and radio personality to a multimedia mogul who became known as the Dick Clark of Tejano music.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026

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