Get to know Tejano better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Tejano meaning
- A Spanish colonial settler of the region that later became Texas.
- A Texan (especially male) of Mexican descent.
- Various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.
Using Tejano
- The main meaning on this page is: A Spanish colonial settler of the region that later became Texas. | A Texan (especially male) of Mexican descent. | Various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.
- In the example corpus, tejano often appears in combinations such as: of tejano, tejano superstar, tejano music.
Context around Tejano
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tejano
- In this selection, "tejano" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mixing, late, horns, superstar, music and mexican stand out and add context to how "tejano" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include americana blues tejano all wrapped and and horns tejano and telecasters. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tejano" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tejano
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tejano queen Selena Quintanilla-Perez had a rags-to-riches story made for the screen. (15 words)
Texan star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is credited with bringing Tejano music to the forefront of popular music. (17 words)
In the process, country and western music as a genre lost most of its southwestern, ranchera, and Tejano musical influences. (20 words)
Similar to the way Springsteen shows his love for the Jersey sound, I truly wanted people to understand my love for the kinds of music that come out of Texas: rock, country, Americana, blues, Tejano, all wrapped up into one. (40 words)
In a lower court complaint from 2017, Zamora alleged that in June 2015, other inmates ganged up on her and Yolanda Saldivar, the former nurse convicted in the murder of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Perez, because of their notoriety. (39 words)
Selena Quintanilla Perez was a native of Lake Jackson, rose to fame and was referred to as the Queen of Tejano Music before being shot to death at the age of 23. (32 words)
Example sentences (14)
Selena Quintanilla Perez was a native of Lake Jackson, rose to fame and was referred to as the Queen of Tejano Music before being shot to death at the age of 23.
A new two-part series on Oxygen True Crime purports to offer new details about the death of Tejano superstar Selena.
Lopez-Galvan also played at weddings, quinceañeras and an American Legion bar and grill, mixing Tejano, Mexican and music with R&B and hip hop.
The late Tejano superstar’s father and brother will oversee a new album on which her original teenage vocals have been updated to sound more mature.
If it had been a Monday night — which at El Tejano is “Marg Monday” — I figure the howling would have been even louder, for margaritas are $3 all day long.
Tejano queen Selena Quintanilla-Perez had a rags-to-riches story made for the screen.
According to the band’s Facebook biography, those influences also include twang and tattoos, grit and guitars, honky-tonk and horns, Tejano and Telecasters.
He has recorded with a variety of popular artists including Ry Cooder, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Peter Rowan and The Rolling Stones and is known as an ambassador of the Tejano style.
In a lower court complaint from 2017, Zamora alleged that in June 2015, other inmates ganged up on her and Yolanda Saldivar, the former nurse convicted in the murder of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Perez, because of their notoriety.
Similar to the way Springsteen shows his love for the Jersey sound, I truly wanted people to understand my love for the kinds of music that come out of Texas: rock, country, Americana, blues, Tejano, all wrapped up into one.
He was forced out of that office, due to threats on his life, by sectarian newcomers and political opponents in 1842, becoming the last Tejano mayor for nearly 150 years.
In the process, country and western music as a genre lost most of its southwestern, ranchera, and Tejano musical influences.
Scott (2000), p. 77. Santa Anna and his commanders received timely intelligence on Texian troop locations, strengths, and plans, from a network of Tejano spies organized by de la Garza.
Texan star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is credited with bringing Tejano music to the forefront of popular music.
Common combinations with tejano
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of tejano 4×
- tejano superstar 3×
- tejano music 2×