Maybe it’s the purist in bandleader Ruben Ramos that has kept him so tied to Tejano Orquesta. Or maybe it’s the genre that has made him a purist. For the past five decades, Ramos has stood as arguably ...

I was born in East Los Angeles on April 1st 1965. Basically at the corner of the 60 & 710 fwys! There's a hospital called Santa Marta Hospital north-west of the two freeways. It was a tiny hospital at ...

Tejano music legend Ruben Ramos, also known as El Gato Negro, remembers the first English song he ever sang on stage: Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill." He says transitioning from segregated to ...

A native Texan, Ruben Ramos started his musical career in the 1950s with the Alfonso Ramos Orchestra, a Latin big-band outfit popular in the Lone Star State. Since then, he has emerged as an elder ...

One of few music pioneers for Latinos during his time, Grammy-award winner Ruben Ramos has been courting Texas crowds for a half century. “I enjoy entertaining my raza,” he’ll tell you. The sound of ...

One of few music pioneers for Latinos during his time, Grammy-award winner Ruben Ramos has been courting Texas crowds for a half century. “I enjoy entertaining my raza,” he’ll tell you. The sound of ...

Ramos is considered a pioneer of Tejano music, the sound known for its traditional Mexican roots infused with the big-band sound of the 1940s, and heavily influenced by blues and rock. Hes bandleader ...

California-based tenor saxophonist and composer Idris Ackamoor, who has one foot in magical realism and the other in the politicised school of spiritual-jazz, relaunched his 1970s band the Pyramids in ...