Bobby Pulido is the definition of tejano royalty—he grew up in the golden age of nineties tejano, and he’s been one of its biggest stars ever since, including a three-year reign as the Tejano Music Awards’ Male Entertainer of the Year from 1998 to 2000.On the first episode of Viva Tejano, Pulido talks about the influences that shaped his musical sensibilities—his grandfather, Mario Montes, played in the norteño band Los Donneños, and his father, Roberto Pulido, basically created the progressive conjunto movement in the seventies by adding saxophones to his band. After starting out as a saxophonist/roadie for his father’s band in the early nineties, Pulido launched his own career in the immediate aftermath of Selena’s death, a tragic moment that changed the genre forever.…
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