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Laura Canales, born on August 19, 1954, in Kingsville, Texas, was a pioneering figure in the Tejano music scene. She blazed a trail for female artists in a genre predominantly dominated by male performers. Laura Canales's music career took off in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period during which she became known as the "Queen of Tejano Music." Her powerful voice and emotive performances earned her a devoted following. Among her most celebrated albums are Si Viví Contigo (1982) and No Regrets (1990) , which showcased her ability to blend traditional Tejano sounds with contemporary influences. Some of her most famous tracks include "Cuatro Caminos" (1990) and "Amor Escondido" (1991), both of which highlighted her signature vocal style and emotional depth. Laura Canales's contributions to Tejano music were not just limited to her recordings; she a
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by Jason Mellard / Center for Texas Music History at Texas State
On August 19, 1954, Tejano singer Laura Canales was born in Kingsville. She began singing in the early 1970s with prominent area groups such as El Conjunto Bernal before launching her own recording career with the single “Midnight Blue” in 1975. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Canales became a leading singer in the genre and won female vocalist of the year multiple times from the Tejano Music Awards. She was honored for her contributions in the field, too, by the likes of Governor Mark White and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, who called her the “First Lady of Song in South Texas.”
Canales championed the traditional conjunto sound, always maintaining an accordion player in her bands and performing conjunto sets, even as she remained open to the sonic innovations that the synthesizer and other instruments brought to the genre. By the late 1980s and into the Tejano boom of the 1990s, several new artists, such as Selena Quintanilla and Shelly Lares, built upon the foundation Canales had laid. By th
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Born on August 19, 1954, in Kingsville, TX; died on April 16, 2005, in Corpus Christi, TX; married and divorced three times. Education: Graduated from high school in Kingsville, TX; Texas A&M University at Kingsville, degree in psychology and speech therapy, 1997; worked toward master's degree at Texas A&M Kingsville.
Before slain female superstar Selena brought tejano music to international prominence, there was Laura Canales. Known during her 1980s heyday as La reina de la onda tejana (The Queen of the Tejano Wave), Canales blazed a path for women in the border-crossing fusion music of Mexican-American Texans. "She was the lady who broke the gender barrier," Tejano Roots Hall of Fame chief executive Javier Villanueva was quoted as saying in the Washington Post. "At the time, it was taboo for female artists to front bands or perform in public. But here came Laura, and she just took the Tejano world by storm." In an interview quoted in the Austin American-Statesman, Canales herself said that she and her band "put femininity in a male-dominated genre."
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