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Trevi to perform at Premio Lo Nuestro

Friday, 10 February 2012 22:20 News

Mexican pop/rock singer Gloria Trevi has been announced as performing at the 2012 Premio Lo Nuestro, scheduled Thursday, Feb. 16 in Miami.

Trevi will sing her new single “Gloria,” from her new album “Gloria en vivo,” according to her record label.

Written by Umberto Tozzi, Gloria" was originaly recorded in 1982 by Laura Branigan and became a big hit.

In this new version, Trevi gives her

Peter Santillano Rises Out of the Ashes

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:49 News

Peter Santillano - Photo by Ramon Hernandez

(Peter Santillano is not a well known name in Tex-Mex circles but he has a storied past as documented in this report by Ramon Hernandez.)

Peter Santillano might be a late bloomer, but the wait may well be worth it.

The Hondo, Texas-native has been singing since 1954. However, it was not until fifty years later that he recorded his first compact disc, “Caminos Chuecos.”

“It’s something I recorded at Max Baca’s tudio for me and my grandkids (Abel Peter, Josiah Cephas, Tresbella Novel and Trinity Jolene),” Santillano said during an

Tex-Mex hero Cornelio Reyna dead at 50

Tuesday, 30 August 2011 16:41 News

Cornelio Reyna Jr By RAMIRO BURR
His name was always among the towering legends in the evolution of Tex-Mex and norteno music.

Yet while the name Cornelio Reyna Jr. was often associated with the pioneers of border music, he never quite reached the stratosphere the way his late famous father did.

According to a family spokesman Rafael Montiel, Reyna Jr. died of apparent respiratory failure in a downtown Mexico City hospital on Aug. 6. He was 50.

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