TM Audio subscribers have access to this episode one week early. Visit our FAQ page to learn how to link your subscription to your podcast app. Linda Escobar, this week’s guest on Viva Tejano, is an absolute pillar in the world of tejano music. She is one of the defining female voices in conjunto and helped spread the music globally, alongside her late partner, Kenji Katsube. Her hometown of Alice is known as the birthplace of tejano music, and she grew up as a child star in the conjunto world, touring on a “caravan of stars” alongside her father, famed singer and guitarist Eligio Escobar. The 1965 hit that launched Linda’s career, “Frijolitos Pintos,” was a song the artist and her dad wrote together.(Read a transcript of…
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