Editing Tejano music (section)

== Tejano music female singers of the late 1980s and 1990s ==
The unknown history of many Tejano female singers in the late 1980s and 1990s has remained in the dark because of little to no media exposure; perhaps, the media was fixated on the biggest names like [[Selena]], [[Laura Canales]], [[Elsa García (singer)]], [[Elida Reyna]], [[Shelly Lares]] and a few others. They were famous and well promoted for good reason - they had notable vocal talent, great producers, top class musicians (bands), and recording studios that rushed to give them the publicity they needed. Tejano female singers Lynda V (and the Boys) and Letty Guval are two amongst others who made their mark in Tejano Music in 1990s but little is known about them. Lynda V (and the Boys) formed her band in 1988, signed a record contract with Bob Griever and [[CBS Records International|CBS Records]] in 1990, and two years later signed a record deal with major company [[Capitol Records|Capitol EMI.]] Lynda V and the Boys worked together as a band until 2005. Letty Guval started her Tejano music career in 1994 after singing with the [[University of Texas–Pan American|University of Texas Pan American]] Mariachi Band in Edinburg for two years. She signed a record contract with Wicker Records in 1994 and signed a four-year contract with [[Fonovisa Records|Fonovisa-Platino Records]]; her career was short-lived, but she was the first female Tejano artist to be invited to sing at the [[White House]] during the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]] in 1994. In her News article, Kelly James from the ''South Bend Tribune'' writes about Letty, "Born in California, raised in Mexico, and educated in Texas, Guval incorporates her cross-cultural experience into her music."<ref>{{Cite news|last=James|first=Kelly|date=April 1998|title=FIESTA! from beet fields to the brentwood center, music remains letty guval's labor of love|work=South Bend Tribune |id={{ProQuest|416883908}} }}</ref> In his book, Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. writes about both, Letty Guval and Lynda V, he writes, "EMI Latin … had five relatively new female acts: Stephanie Lynn, Elsa García, Lynda V. and the Boys, Agnes Torres of the New Variety Band, and Delia y Culturas".<ref name=Romero2004>{{cite journal |last1=Romero |first1=Yolanda G. |title=Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century |journal=The Western Historical Quarterly |date=Autumn 2004 |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=399–400 |doi=10.2307/25443040 |jstor=25443040 }}</ref>&nbsp; About Letty Guval San Miguel says, "Occasionally, Tejano musicians provided only touches of music from other styles, their incorporation into Tejano music was brief enough so that it did not interrupt the beat of the song. Two examples come to mind—one from Letty Guval and the second from Conjunto Bernal. In the mid-1990s, Guval, a popular Tejana performer, recorded a ranchera called 'Sentimiento.' At key points in the song and for only a few seconds, she incorporated some ''banda'' rhythms."<ref name=Romero2004/> Both Lynda V. and Letty Guval traveled the United States and Mexico performing for many. In the 1990s both performed different times at the [[Tejano Music Awards]] and the Johnny Canales Show.