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Meanings of tejano in English
Resident of the state of Texas culturally descended from the original Spanish-speaking settlers of Texas and northern Mexico.
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Hybrid of the conjunto and norteño music developed in the U.S./Mexico border, rooted in Mexican folk but can also take influences from other genres like country, blues, funk or rock.
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Usage of tejano in English
1
They performed Tejano music, a form of folk and popular music by Mexican-Americans.
2
From somewhere off to his right a radio was playing a Tejano song.
3
Music was provided by the Tejano Trio, and the dancing went on into the wee hours.
4
Tejano musicians are highly adaptable and unpretentious borrowers.
5
Kirby's Tejano crowded up beside Hannibal.
6
She had been a tiny, dark-haired young woman with huge brown eyes and a hint of a Tejano accent.
7
You take Tejano heah.
8
"Oh, hi, Mr. Marx." Her Tejano accent was downright musical.
9
It gave them the flavor of a Tejano Christmas without the trouble of actually going to the West Side and mixing with Hispanics.
10
He started singing with Tejano band David Lee Garza y Los Musicales in the late 1980s, before joining Selena for several Tejano hits.
11
He was a second-generation Tejano, dark and dangerous and sure of himself in this strange land, and she was lonely and homesick and easy prey.
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