The high-pitched, echoey vocals describe a sinking romance against a backdrop of soulful horns and pop-drenched keyboard hooks. It’s the affecting pop balladry of norteno group Conjunto Primavera.

Starting small, staying focused and being persistent are the keys to long-term success, says Conjunto Primavera vocalist Tony Meléndez. Primavera knows about persistence: It took the band years to get ...

SAN BENITO, Texas — The southern subtropics of Texas, known as the Rio Grande Valley, is a geographically and culturally distinct part of the Lone Star State — as much Mexican as Texan — with its own ...

The best songs evoke a memory or a feeling, says Conjunto Primavera vocalist Tony Meléndez. He said that is why the group focuses first on lyrics when selecting songs. A case in point is Algo de Mí, ...

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When his mother fell ill and under professional care, a young Baldomero "Frank" Cuellar called her from a pay phone outside of Brackenridge Hospital to express his concern about missing the family's ...

The high-pitched, echoey vocals describe a sinking romance against a backdrop of soulful horns and pop-drenched keyboard hooks. At first listen, it sounds like the music of a typical grupero. But it’s ...

Conjunto (pronounced con-HOON-toh) is now offered as a fine-arts band credit in at least a dozen schools in the Valley and as far north as San Antonio. As the adage goes: If you want to preserve the ...

Part of Texas has its own soundtrack: conjunto music. And a new generation of musicians is taking it up. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July, 10, 2023.) With the soundtrack for your morning, ...