Fighting for Tejano Music With Veronique Medrano

Fighting for Tejano Music With Veronique Medrano

Author: INOMZU January 25, 2022 Duration: 23:09
Veronique Medrano is a Tejano and Spanish Country singer from Brownsville, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. Veronique finds inspiration as an artist from her experiences living on the border, her Mexican-American identity and her everyday life. On this How I Made It segment, Veronique walks us through the origins and diversity of Tejano music, being a woman in a male-dominated industry and the importance of archiving and preserving the genre for future generations.

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