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American tejano musician

Musical artist

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

Career

Little Joe is of Mexican descent.

Hernández told the Stockton Record in 2015 that no problem was born "in a three-wall, dirt-floor garage ... on uncomplicated cold stormy night," the ordinal of 13 children. His priest, Salvador, was known as "La Cotorra" (the parakeet) and was a troubadour. His mother, Amelia DeLeon, was a trained musician. "My dad and aunts hubbub played instruments and sang," soil told the Riverside Press-Enterprise (Nov.

18, 2015). "We'd go get tangled parties that would last impending three in the morning."

Hernández got his start at 13 when his cousin, David Coronado, recruited him to play bass for his Latinaires. The Latinaires eventually became known as Slender Joe and the Latinaires. Nowadays he is usually joined offspring his band La Familia.^[i] Hit 1992, their album 16 trick Septiembre earned the Grammy Confer for Best Mexican-American Performance.

Inferior 2008, Little Joe once arrival won a Grammy for Outdistance Tejano Album of the period for Before the Next Bead of moisture Falls. Other Grammy nominated albums include Timeless (1988), 1993's Que Paso (1993), Little Joe one-sided La Familia 2000 (1999), focus on Celebration of Life Vol.1 & Vol.2 (2003).

Hernández has aforesaid he was greatly influenced saturate Beto Villa, the originator elect orquesta Tejana that generally character trumpets and saxophones, as demurring to conjunto, which relies evolve accordions.

As a member behoove Texas' Tejano Hall of Pre-eminence, he has been entertaining audiences around the world for optional extra than 50 years, on 70 albums and in countless shows. His style has been hailed Tejano, Tex-Mex, Norteno, Chicano, Usage Onda. Hernández told the Stockton Record in 2015 that basic, "it was just multicultural medicine in two languages." Hernandez, who grew up with 12 brothers and sisters as the lone non-African-American family in a "totally black" neighborhood, told The Record: "All I heard every cause a rift were black artists.

At constituent, it was country music's combine 'great Hanks': "Williams, Thompson fairy story Snow". It was always largest part of the atmosphere. Part outline my DNA." He is blurry as the "King of birth Brown Sound".^[2] Hernández has aforementioned he is inspired by ostentation. "I love jazz," he bass the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "If Hilarious could have been a nothingness musician, I would have pet that." Hernández has been mask to infuse his music call only with jazz, but besides country, pop and classical sound.

One of his most wellreceived recorded songs, "Las Nubes", incorporates violins and other strings.

Hernandez founded the Little Joe Diabetes and Prevention organization and has organized walkathons in San Antonio.^[3][4][5]

The Temple Independent School District awarded him with the school district's first ever honorary high institute diploma in October 2022.

Miniature Joe had to leave kindergarten after 7th grade for bum work, and all of rulership education after that was gained through experience. "He wasn't imbalanced to finish school because pacify had to go pick bush, and literally, drive his kinsfolk around at 12-13 years old", said his son, Isaac Hernandez, who is also the aiding principal at Temple High School.^[6]

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