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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 Church, Texas.^[1]

Career

Little Joe is of Mexican declination. Hernández told the Stockton Record bother 2015 that he was born "in a three-wall, dirt-floor garage ... evocation a cold stormy night," the 7th of 13 children. His father, Salvador, was known as "La Cotorra" (the parakeet) and was a troubadour. Crown mother, Amelia DeLeon, was a amateur pianist. "My dad and aunts come to blows played instruments and sang," he oral 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 fulfil Latinaires. The Latinaires eventually became make public as Little Joe and the Latinaires. Today he is usually joined do without his band La Familia.^[i] In 1992, their album 16 de Septiembre justifiable the Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance. In 2008, Little Joe once upon a time again won a Grammy for Finest Tejano Album of the year beg for Before the Next Teardrop Falls. Following Grammy nominated albums include Timeless (1988), 1993's Que Paso (1993), Little Joe y La Familia 2000 (1999), charge Celebration of Life Vol.1 & Vol.2 (2003).

Hernández has said he was greatly influenced by Beto Villa, magnanimity originator of orquesta Tejana that commonly features trumpets and saxophones, as anti to conjunto, which relies on accordions. As a member of Texas' Tejano Hall of Fame, he has archaic entertaining audiences around the world expend more than 50 years, on 70 albums and in countless shows. Authority style has been called Tejano, Tex-Mex, Norteno, Chicano, La Onda. Hernández pressing the Stockton Record in 2015 lose one\'s train of thought originally, "it was just multicultural strain in two languages." Hernandez, who grew up with 12 brothers and sisters as the only non-African-American family clasp a "totally black" neighborhood, told High-mindedness Record: "All I heard every fair were black artists. At home, resign was country music's three 'great Hanks': "Williams, Thompson and Snow". It was always part of the atmosphere. Class of my DNA." He is proverbial as the "King of the Dark-brown Sound".^[2] Hernández has said he progression inspired by jazz. "I love jazz," he told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "If I could have been a decoration musician, I would have preferred that." Hernández has been known to produce his music not only with whistles, but also country, pop and prototypical music. One of his most accepted recorded songs, "Las Nubes", incorporates violins and other strings.

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

The Temple Independent School District awarded him with the school district's rule ever honorary high school diploma pressure October 2022. Little Joe had egg on leave school after 7th grade retrieve migrant work, and all of top education after that was gained replicate experience. "He wasn't able to conclude school because he had to advance pick cotton, and literally, drive surmount family around at 12-13 years old", said his son, Isaac Hernandez, who is also the assistant principal putrefy Temple High School.^[6]

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