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    Music Credits: “NY” composed and performed by Kosta T, from the cd  Soul Sand used courtesy of Free Music Archive

    “Carmen, Carmenlita” written by “Little Joe” Hernández, performed by Little Joe and La Familia from the album  Reúnion 95,.

    Jo Reed:  For the National Endowment for the Arts, This is Art Works. I’m Josephine Reed.

    Today a conversation with a legend—Joe De Leon Hernández, known as Little Joe—the King of Brown Sound and leader of one of the most popular Tejano groups in music history, “Little Joe y La Familia.” Little Joe has helped pioneer Tejano music, a mix of traditional Norteño, country, blues and rock styles, and is simply one of the most prominent figures in the tradition today. 

    Joining his cousin’s band when he was 13, Joe has been performing around the world for almost 70 years. He’s recorded 70 albums, nominated for a Grammy 11 times, and and he’s won five—the first in 1992, the last one in 2020—a testament not jus

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    Little Joe Hernandez to step back in time at San Angelo concert

    It often starts with a loud, passionate grito, or “shout,” filled with so much pain and anguish, it can bring the most composed listener to tears.

    That instantly recognizable voice belongs to Little Joe Hernandez, 76, a five-time Grammy Award winner who is arguably the most accomplished Mexican-American singer in history.

    “I’ve been fortunate to have been able to do this as long as inom have,” said Hernandez, who began playing professionally at age 13. “For more than half a century I’ve been on the road and if people don’t like it, they’ll let me know.

    “What can I säga, the fans are still letting me get away with it.”

    Hernandez and his band, La Familia, will return to San Angelo for the first time in 20 years when he performs on Saturday, July 29, at the 1st Community kredit Union Spur Arena.

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    Hernandez's performance is part of a two-day annual Jamaica Festiv

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    Little Joe (singer)

    American tejano musician

    Musical artist

    José María De León Hernández (born October 17, 1940), known professionally as Little Joe, is an American tejano performer who was born and raised in Temple, Texas.[1]

    Career

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    Little Joe is of Mexican descent. Hernández told the Stockton Record in 2015 that he was born "in a three-wall, dirt-floor garage ... on a cold stormy night," the seventh of 13 children. His father, Salvador, was known as "La Cotorra" (the parakeet) and was a troubadour. His mother, Amelia DeLeon, was a trained pianist. "My dad and aunts all played instruments and sang," he told the Riverside Press-Enterprise (Nov. 18, 2015). "We'd go to parties that would last until three in the morning."

    Hernández got his start at 13 when his cousin, David Coronado, recruited him to play guitar for his Latinaires. The Latinaires eventually became known as Little Joe and the Latinaires. Today he is usually joined by his band La Famili

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