DAY TWO: TEJANO SHOWCASE MARCH 18
4:00-9:30pm
STEFANI MONTIEL
Stefani Montiel has received six Grammy nominations, and has been named Tejano Music Awards and New Mexico Hispano Music Association (NMHMA) Entertainer of the Year, as well as Tejano Music Awards, NMHMA, and Academy of Tejano Artists and Musicians Female Vocalist of the Year.
Montiel, born in Albuquerque and making her musical mark in San Antonio, Texas, was awarded the number one song of the year in 2020 for “Extraño Tu Amor,” and recently released “Ya Lo Ves,” which has already become a Tejano music favorite.
Whether she is singing a ballad, ranchera, salsa, cumbia, or Latin R&B, there is no mistaking Stefani’s sweet, smooth and powerful voice.
Veronique Medrano
Veronique Medrano is a Regional Mexican & South Texas Country Americana Recording Artist with three full-studio albums: 'Lotería', 'Mi Año Dorado', 'Encantadora'. In December of 2020 she released an EP Album titled "La Novela", which was up for consideration for the Latin Grammy's. In the Summer of 2021 she released her Country & Banda crossover EP titled, "Crying" an homage to Roy Orbison.
Veronique continues to trailblaze in the field of digital media through: TV appearances, video game streaming, blogging and more.
Monica Saldivar
Monica Saldivar, a Grand Prairie, TX native who won the Austin-based nationwide singing competition, Tejano Idol in 2015 is one of the hottest up and coming vocalist in Tejano. Recently taking home the award for “Top New Female Artist” at the second annual My Tejano Awards, presented by the Tejano Music Hall of Fame Awards and the City of Mission, TX. She was also selected to perform at the 2019 Tejano Music National Convention during the Gran Baile in Las Vegas, NV. during a segment called LA-45 Presents JukeBox Live to showcase the industry’s top new female artist.
She is a 2012 graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts as well as a 2017 graduate of Dallas Baptist University with a major in Music Business / Vocal Performance.
Along with having locked down regular rotation throughout Tejano airwaves, Monica has also been featured on Spotify Editorial playlists such as “New Tejano” and “Novedades Regional Mexicano” which has helped expand her following. All of Monica's music can be found on all major digital music platforms.
Monica is currently in the studio working on completing her debut album which is shooting for an end of year release and will feature some of the best producers and songwriters this genre has to offer.
LEONARD DAVILA & STREET PEOPLE
Leonard Davila returns with his legendary band Street People. Now, after a nearly 30-year hiatus, Davila has returned with a reinvigorated sound, part of a rebirth of the once-popular Street People band.
Davila, along with several members of Street People, was inducted into the Tejano Roots Hall of Fame in 2015. When Street People launched in the late 1970s, it was actually a disco band. “We’d get bored if something was the same, so we played rancheras or boleros when Chicanos would ask for them,” Leonard says.
Street People released four albums and toured across the country for diverse audiences. Influenced by everything from the Beatles to Vicente Fernandez, Davila says Street People’s musical style blended all the sounds that U.S.-born Chicanos were listening to at the time.
The new Street People still has a horn-driven sound but with modern arrangements and new tricks, Davila says. He hopes to show that their music can be enjoyed by people of diverse musical tastes. “You don’t have to listen to just one thing. You may not dance to the cumbia the same way that I do, but we all still move.”
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