Look, I'm a guera. I don't speak a lot of Spanish (although I did pretty good when I got my haircut a few weeks ago...) And it's only been a couple of years since I started listening to Tejano. But in that short amount of time, I have fallen completely in love with it.
okay now, it may seem that i am picking on "95.1 para la gente", but c'mon people, what message are they sending? so they have added country to their tejano catalog play-list, basically telling the listener, tejano is not good enough, so here's some country and a little bit of hip-hop.
so, i read castillo's interview on the Austin American Statesman the other day, and i read on how new tejano music should be pushed by radio stations, and that's fine....but!, his thoughts on radio playing tejano classics kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
ya' see, the 90's were the glory days of tejano, EMI Latin,Sony and all the big record companies stood up and noticed tejano music.
ok raza,
so Austin went for a couple or 3 years without a tejano station, and the so called tejano coalition claims to have helped bring in "para la gente". problem is that para la gente is really not doing all it could to promote tejano music in Austin.
