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Humble Beginnings in Los Rondels: Laredo’s Original Tejano Recording Artists

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Even the smallest of things as we all look around ourselves, had a beginning at some point in time. The smartphones, watches, television, and numerous other things that we consider a part of our daily lives may not have existed some decades or a century ago, and most of the things mentioned took their due time in becoming popular as a daily routine item for us. Music, and musicians are no different. The story Los Rondels: Laredo’s Original Tejano Recording Artists explains about the humble beginnings of the band The Rondels, depicting how they emerged to be game-changers, and helped to revolutionize the music industry in the 60’s. The author of the book Los Rondels: Laredo’s Original Tejano Recording Artists , Humberto Gonzalez explains about the beginning, emergence and the eruption of the band The Rondels. The author explains that in retrospect the members had adopted from Glascow and Matthew Sayed’s famous rule and formula of success, the’10,000-hour rule’. This rule was embraced ...

Igniting a Musical Revolution

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  Los Rondels: Laredo’s Original Tejano Recording Artists In his memoir, the author, Humberto Gonzalez vividly explains each and every detail of his youthful era where amidst a backdrop of several incidents, How the emergence of Tejano music was shaped, and how Rondels became pioneers along with others of the emerging genre in the 60’s. This book, Los Rondels: Laredo’s Original Tejano Recording Artists is the perfect depiction of the formation, and the emergence of this band that helped shape a whole generation of musical influence in the country. The book is set in the 60’s where there was a lot going on in the State of Texas, specifically the city of Laredo. The people of the city were enjoying a newfound sense of freedom amidst a civil rights movement, and the Vietnam war. The war had directly or indirectly effected the lives of many people in Laredo, and in Texas, and the expressions of freedom, and enjoyment were a direct result of all the hardships and struggle their pare...