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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...