Editing Tejanos (section)

===Music===
{{main|Tejano music}}
Genuine [[Tejano music]] is descended from a mixture of German and Czechoslovak polka and oom papa sounds and Mexican Spanish strings, and is similar to the French folk music of Louisiana, known as "[[Cajun music]]", blended with the sounds of rock and roll, R&B, pop, and country, and with Mexican influences such as conjunto music. Narciso Martinez is the father of Conjunto Music, followed by the legendary Santiago Jimenez (Father of Flaco Jimenez).

Sunny and the Sunglows lead the rock and roll era in the 1950s along with Little Joe, and Rudy Guerra, who were originators of the rock and roll portion of genre. Today, Tejano music is a wide array of multicultural genres including rockteno and Tejano rap. The American cowboy culture and music was born from the meeting of the European-American Texians, Indigenous people, colonists mostly from the American South, and the original Tejano pioneers and their ''vaquero,'' or "cowboy" culture.<ref>{{cite book |first=Gene |last=Hill |title=Americans All, Americanos Todos |publisher=Añoranza Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Gilbert Y. |last=Chavez |title=Cowboys-Vaqueros, Origins of the First American Cowboys }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Lawrence |last=Clayton |title=Vaqueros, Cowboys and Buckaroos |url=https://archive.org/details/vaqueroscowboysb00clay |url-access=registration |year=2001 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=9780292712386 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Alex |last=Loya |at=chapter 15 |title=The Legacy and Heritage of the Spaniard Texians }}</ref>

The 1990s were the peak years for Tejano music, with artists such as Selena, La Mafia, and Emilio Navaira going mainstream. Selena, the "Queen of Tejano Music,"<ref>{{Citation |title=Tejano music |date=2025-04-22 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejano_music?utm_source=chatgpt.com |access-date=2025-04-28 |language=en}}</ref> played a key role in making the genre popularamong the masses, adding pop sensibilities to traditional styles