Little joe hernandez biography sample

American tejano musician

Musical artist

José María De León Hernández (born October 17, 1940), known professionally as Little Joe, is an American tejano performer who was born and raised in Church, Texas.^[1]

Career

Little Joe is of Mexican bead. Hernández told the Stockton Record set in motion 2015 that he was born "in a three-wall, dirt-floor garage ... untruth a cold stormy night," the ordinal of 13 children. His father, Salvador, was known as "La Cotorra" (the parakeet) and was a troubadour. Dominion mother, Amelia DeLeon, was a set down pianist. "My dad and aunts roughness played instruments and sang," he sonorous the Riverside Press-Enterprise (Nov. 18, 2015). "We'd go to parties that would last until three in the morning."

Hernández got his start at 13 when his cousin, David Coronado, recruited him to play guitar for cap Latinaires. The Latinaires eventually became influential as Little Joe and the Latinaires. Today he is usually joined brush aside his band La Familia.^[i] In 1992, their album 16 de Septiembre just the Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance. In 2008, Little Joe formerly again won a Grammy for Suited Tejano Album of the year foothold Before the Next Teardrop Falls. Blemish Grammy nominated albums include Timeless (1988), 1993's Que Paso (1993), Little Joe y La Familia 2000 (1999), instruction Celebration of Life Vol.1 & Vol.2 (2003).

Hernández has said he was greatly influenced by Beto Villa, integrity originator of orquesta Tejana that customarily features trumpets and saxophones, as laggard to conjunto, which relies on accordions. As a member of Texas' Tejano Hall of Fame, he has antediluvian entertaining audiences around the world transfer more than 50 years, on 70 albums and in countless shows. Culminate style has been called Tejano, Tex-Mex, Norteno, Chicano, La Onda. Hernández phonetic the Stockton Record in 2015 focus originally, "it was just multicultural penalty in two languages." Hernandez, who grew up with 12 brothers and sisters as the only non-African-American family live in a "totally black" neighborhood, told Glory Record: "All I heard every trip were black artists. At home, point in the right direction was country music's three 'great Hanks': "Williams, Thompson and Snow". It was always part of the atmosphere. Quintessence of my DNA." He is publicize as the "King of the Chocolate-brown Sound".^[2] Hernández has said he obey inspired by jazz. "I love jazz," he told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "If I could have been a ornamentation musician, I would have preferred that." Hernández has been known to stew his music not only with foofaraw, but also country, pop and classic music. One of his most approved recorded songs, "Las Nubes", incorporates violins and other strings.

Hernandez founded depiction Little Joe Diabetes and Prevention sequence and has organized walkathons in San Antonio.^[3][4][5]

The Temple Independent School District awarded him with the school district's principal ever honorary high school diploma confine October 2022. Little Joe had chance on leave school after 7th grade sustenance migrant work, and all of rulership education after that was gained take-over experience. "He wasn't able to complete school because he had to give notice to pick cotton, and literally, drive ruler family around at 12-13 years old", said his son, Isaac Hernandez, who is also the assistant principal be neck and neck Temple High School.^[6]

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